The 11th International Symposium on Management of Technology (ISMOT2024) and the International Young Scholars Forum on Innovation Studies (IYIS2024) will be held on 7-8th December 2024 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. The ISMOT & IYIS 2024 is hosted by the School of Economics and Management of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (ZUST), and co-organized by Research Center for Technological Innovation (RCTI) at Tsinghua University and the National Institute of Innovation Management (NIIM) at Zhejiang University, with academic support by the Science of Science and Management of S. &. T., International Journal of Innovation Studies (IJIS), Journal of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, and Review of Digital Innovation.
New quality productive forces play a pivotal role in the emergence and development of economic globalization, and profoundly affects the global economic structures and economic development. In this year’s 11th Issue of the Qiushi journal (an official publication of the Central Committee of the CPC) published on 1st June 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping noted, “The distinctive feature of the new quality productive forces is innovation, which includes innovation at the level of technology and business models, as well as at the level of management and systems & mechanisms. We must keep prioritizing innovation, and it is necessary to well leverage innovation to propel the accelerated development of new quality productive forces.” As such, this year’s conference focuses on the theme of “Technology Management and Innovation Studies towards New Quality Productive Forces”, aiming to bring together global researchers, enterprise managers and practitioners, and policy experts in the fields of scientific and technological innovation, economics and management, etc., to discuss the theories, methods, strategies and policies of science, technology, and innovation in the context of the development of new quality productive forces, as well as the future trends, perspectives and outlooks.
ISMOT was initiated by Professor Qingrui Xu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Professor of Zhejiang University, in the 1990s. It aims to serve as a communication platform for interactive learning and exchange of cutting-edge knowledge in related fields of technology innovation management at home and abroad. ISMOT has been successfully held for 9 sessions. It attracted more than 1,000 college and industry managers from 30 countries and regions. ISMOT, held every two to three years, is an international event in the field of innovation management, and has now become one of the most large-scale and high-level international academic events in technological innovation and its management in China.IYIS, which was successfully held in 2018, this 2nd session is going to provide an effective exchange platform for promoting both domestic and overseas young scholars in the field of innovation studies.
Conference Date: 7-8th December 2024
Conference Venue: The Dragon Hotel Hangzhou (No. 120, Shuguang Road, Xihu)
Now in its current session, the theme of this conference would be "Technology Management and Innovation Studies towards New Quality Productive Forces", and the topics of interest we aim to include are listed below:
1. Economic growth and technological innovation
2. Technology and knowledge management in the context of AI
3. Innovation management and governance modernization
4. Engineering & technology management towards new quality productive forces
5. Digital-real integration, digital intelligence technology and new quality productive forces
6. Green innovation and sustainable development
7. Management of frontier science and emerging technologies
8. Disruptive innovation and industries of the future
9. Trends and challenges of innovation globalization
10. Cultivation of innovative talents and construction of innovation culture
Conference Schedule:
December 7th: Keynote speech of the "International Conference on Technology Management and International Young Scholars Forum on Innovation Studies"
December 8th: To visit the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
Conference Registration: Please note to submit your attendee registration by scanning the following QR code or getting access through the website link before November 30th 2024. If there is any unforeseen scheduling change, should you kindly contact the conference staff before Nov 30th 2024.
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Conference Registration Fee:
Conference registration fees for faculty: ¥ 1,200 CNY ($ 170 USD);
Conference registration fees for student: ¥ 600 CNY ($ 85 USD).
Note: 1) The registration fee includes lunch, dinner and tea breaks during the ISMOT2024 & IYIS2024 conference, and attendee needs to pay for his/her own accommodations; 2) Only online registration and completing the payment will be considered as Conference Registration Success.
Call for papers & Important dates
Authors are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting articles. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The selected papers of this conference will be considered as potentially publishable in the International Journal of Innovation Studies (ESCI (IF 4.2, Q2) & Scopus (CiteScore 8.1, Q1)). Please access the Guide for Authors via
https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/international-journal-of-innovation-studies/guide-for-authors/
Submissions due: 15th November 2024
Acceptance notification due: 25th November 2024
Please send back the full manuscript and your brief bio (with a profile photo used for our conference manual) via Dr. Zhao: zhaoz27@zust.edu.cn (Dr. Zhao).
Founder & Chairman of ISMOT
Qingrui Xu
Academician, China Academy of Engineering
Professor, Zhejiang University (ZJU-SOM)
Prof. Xu is the first scholar in China to propose the idea that enterprises lie at the core of technological innovation. He has put forward the theories of “Secondary Innovation Management”, “Portfolio Innovation Management”, and “Total Innovation Management”, forming the theoretical system of technological innovation management with Chinese characteristics. For decades, as an important pioneer and founder of Chinese theory on technological innovation management, he has specialized on the application of technology innovation in sustainable development, business management and education management. He edited books and monographs Management of Technological Innovation (the first book on the technological innovation discipline in China), Total Innovation Management, Basic Laws and Models of Business Management (In Chinese), Management (In Chinese), R&D and Technological Innovation Management, To Leverage Innovation Capability of Chinese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises by Total Innovation Management, and Prof. Xu published more than 300 articles in prestigious academic journals. He founded and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (the earliest academic journal on engineering management in China).
Keynote Speakers (continuously updating):
Alexander Brem
Professor, Universität of Stuttgart
Director, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science, Universität of Stuttgart
Prof. Brem is Endowed Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship in Technology and Digitalization, and Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science (ENI) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Recently, he was elected as Vice Rector for Science Transfer and International Affairs, too. He is IEEE Senior Member and a CCSR International Research Associate at DeMontfort University (UK) and Honorary Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). His work is acknowledged with being listed in various rankings as one of the most research-intensive business and management professors worldwide. His work on technological innovation and entrepreneurship was published in outlets such as Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Research or California Management Review. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Engineering Management Review and Associate Editor of the Journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He is an editorial board member at various journals like the Academy of Management Perspectives and the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
John R. Bessant
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter
Prof. Bessant currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University where he is also Research Director. In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He is visiting professor at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany and University of Stavanger, Norway. He has acted as advisor to various national governments and to international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD. Professor Bessant is the author of over 30 books and monographs and many articles on the topic and has lectured and consulted widely around the world. His most recent books include Managing Innovation (2018) (now in its 6th edition), Entreprenurship (2018) (both published by John Wiley and Sons) and Riding the innovation wave (Emerald, 2017). His research is concerned with the process of technological innovation and its management.
Jin Chen
Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Director, Research Center of Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University
Prof. Chen is a Professor of Innovation management at the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Tsinghua University SEM, and the Director of Research Center of Technological Innovation (RCTI) at Tsinghua University. He serves as Vice Chairman of China Management Science Society, and Vice Chairman of Chinese Association of Science of Science and S&T Policy Research. He has worked at MIT (USA) and Sussex University (UK). Champion of indigenous innovation, open innovation, collaborative innovation, he has developed the idea of “Holistic Innovation” which takes a systemic perspective to tech innovation, and he is pioneer of “Meaningful Innovation” paradigm. As a premier and dedicated technology and innovation management researcher, he has published hundreds of articles in prestigious academic journals such as Research Policy, Technovation, etc, and published many theoretical articles in People's Daily, GuangMing Daily. He is a member of the management committee of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society and he was honoured as one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers in 2021 and 2023 respectively (Thinkers50 Global Ranking). Prof. Chen is the founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Innovation Studies (IJIS), the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), and Associate Editor of Tecnovation, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Science of Science and Management of S.&.T., and Executive EiC of Tsinghua Business Review. He has won 14 provincial and ministerial awards, including 2 first prizes and 10 second prizes, and was honored with the “National Innovation and Pioneering Award” in 2023.
Jiaci Chen
Founder, Wholistic Institute of Lifelong Learning (WILL)
Senior Research Fellow, Research Center of Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University
Prof. Chen is a doctorate supervisor. He is currently an Academic Fellow of International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI), Senior Research Fellow of the Research Center of Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University. He was an honorary visiting professor to University of Glasgow. Currently, he is the founder of Wholistic Institute of Lifelong Learning (WILL) and a visiting professor to Murdoch University, Pradita University and Petra Christian University. He is an international certified senior management consultant, and a Stanford Certified corporate trainer in project management. He is author of six contemporary books on management, leadership, and innopreneurship. He has also published over 100 articles in international journal.
Magnus Karlsson
Adjunct Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Prof. Karlsson is an Adjunct Professor in Innovation Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and project manager of innovation management system at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. He is national expert and chairman of the Swedish committee SIS/TK 532 on innovation management at SIS Swedish Institute for Standards. Magnus is a partner at the consulting and training company Amplify and an advisor to multinational companies and organizations in the area of innovation management and research fellow at Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (IMIT). He is the former director of new business development & innovation at Ericsson headquarters. He has been serving as Science & Technology Counselor at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC for five years. Research interests span the fields of innovation management in large organizations, implementation of innovation management systems, ideation management and innovation capabilities in teams.
Sanjay Kumar
Associate Dean and Professor of Management, Central Michigan University
Prof. Kumar serves as the Associate Dean and Professor of Management at the College of Business Administration at Central Michigan University. Prior to this, he held the positions of Associate Dean and Chair Professor at the College of Business at Valparaiso University and was a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University-Erie. Dr. Kumar brings a wealth of experience in academic leadership, distinguished by a notable record of impactful research and exemplary teaching. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Kumar served as President of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute (MWDSI) and was recognized as a Fellow of the institute in 2021 for his outstanding service to the community. He currently holds a visiting professorship at Zhejiang University of Technology in China and serves as a co-supervisor of post-doctoral research at the Hangzhou Gongshu Gongda Institute of Future Technology. He is the editorial board member of the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM).
Soo Hee LEE
Professor, University of Kent
Prof. Lee is a Professor in Organization Studies at Kent Business School, University of Kent. He has previously worked at Birkbeck, University of London, Cass Business School, and University of Sheffield. He also had visiting appointments at University of Science and Technology of China, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Syungkyunkwan University, ESSEC Business School, and TiasNimbas Business School. He is on the editorial board of Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Global Transitions. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the International Conference of Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. Professor Soo Hee Lee’s research focuses on institutional and behavioural underpinnings of strategy and innovation and organizational dynamics of knowledge, trust and power. His work, more than 50 articles, has been published in prestigious academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, etc.
Xielin Liu
Professor, School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor, ShanghaiTech University
Prof. Liu is also the vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology Policy, and the chief editor of the journal Science of Science and Management of S.&. T. He has made pioneering academic contributions to the research of national innovation system, enterprise innovation subject, regional innovation, knowledge economy, etc. He has directly participated in the formulation of national science and technology development strategy and planning, and won the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education (2001) and the Outstanding Contribution Award of Fudan Management. He has published 25 SCI and SSCI papers in Research Policy, Tecnovation, Journal of Management Studies and other journals, and 180 papers in the core journals such as Economic Research, and Management World. He has written 7 books in English and 40 books and reports in Chinese. He edited and published the domestic and foreign well-known "China's regional Innovation Capability Evaluation Report".
Jiang Wei
Professor, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
Dean of Global Zheshang Institute of Zhejiang University
Prof. Wei was the dean and deputy secretary of the School of Management of Zhejiang University. National leading talent, national young talent, provincial leading talent, Chutian Scholar Distinguished professor of Hubei Province, Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award winner. Member of the 12th and 13th Zhejiang Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the 7th and 8th Business Administration Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council, member of the Business Administration Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, member of the Department of Management of the Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Education, member of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government Advisory Committee, Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Business Administration Education Steering Committee, Vice Chairman of China Creative Studies Research Association, Vice Chairman of China Science and Technology Policy Research Association. He has been engaged in research on innovation management and strategic management for a long time, and has proposed theories such as "asymmetric innovation", "institutional market" and "data-based view".
Xiaobo Wu
Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang University
Director of Social Science Department, Zhejiang University
National "Ten thousand people Plan" philosophy and social sciences leading talent, Changjiang Scholar distinguished professor. Prof. Wu puts forward the theory of "secondary innovation management" and the "C theory" based on the innovation management practice of China's leading enterprises, and focuses on the theoretical research of innovation and strategic management of "from catch-up to beyond catch-up". His monograph "Global Manufacturing and Secondary Innovation: Winning late-comer Advantage" and "Huawei Management Change" (co-authored) won the Excellent Achievement Award of Zhejiang Province and the Ministry of Education. He has presided over more than 30 projects, including National Natural Science Foundation general projects and key projects, major international cooperation projects, National Social Science Foundation major projects and key projects, major horizontal research projects, EU Seventh Framework projects, IDRC international cooperation projects, etc. He is also the editorial board member, deputy editor and chief editor of Journal of Zhejiang University (Social Science Edition), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, and Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
Jiang Yu
Researcher, Strategic Consulting Institute of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Yu is the Executive Director of Network Innovation and Development Research Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Executive Director of Industrial Science and Technology Innovation Research Center, and member of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Center, a key research base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. He served as the director of the Academic Committee of Beijing Key Laboratory of “Science and Technology Policy Simulation and Decision Support”. Secretary General of the Sino-UK Innovation Policy and Management Research Network. He was a researcher of the Royal Society Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and a core member of the Chinese expert group at a major international exchange event called the “China-EU High Level Innovation Dialogue”. Prof. Yu has long been concerned with the research of science and technology innovation management and policy, digitalization and industrial competition strategy in the context of globalization.
Gang Zheng
Professor, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Deputy Head of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Zhejiang University
Dr. Gang Zheng is a professor of technology and innovation management and deputy chair of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Strategy, at School of Management, Zhejiang University, China. He is also the founding director of Zhejiang University Technology Venture Program (ZTVP), as well as Venture-Lab of Silicon Valley in Zhejiang University. He serves as executive director of the Chinese Association for Science and S&T Policy Research, and co-founder & board member of the International Society for Design Thinking (ISDT). He is one of the pioneers of Total Innovation Management (TIM) and Total Collaborative Innovation theory. He has published numerous papers in Chinese management studies and continues to be an active scholar in the area of strategic management of technology and innovation, and technology entrepreneurship. His main research and teaching interests include innovation and change management (total innovation management, business model innovation and non-R&D innovation, transformation and upgrading and innovation strategy, etc.), lean entrepreneurship, etc.
Dean, School of Economics and Management, ZUST
Director, Research Center of Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University
29th Oct, 2024
