Past Conferences:
Strategic Unknowns: the usefulness of ambiguity and ignorance in organisational life
9th October 2009, 09:00-5:30 at the Saïd Business School
Convenor: Linsey McGoey
At this international symposium, a range of scholars will explore the ways that ignorance and ambiguity are strategically deployed within organisational life. From the subprime crisis, to the war on terror; from the politics of climate change to the rise of ‘evidence’ based medicine, this workshop will examine whether it is ignorance, and not knowledge, that serves as the main bulwark of economic, political and financial strength. In the context of global crises, whether financial, military or pandemic, is the ‘unknown’ increasingly being exploited as a strategic tool for personal and organisational survival?
This symposium is a joint collaboration between the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OxCEI) and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS).
Speakers included:
Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa
Christian Borch, Copenhagen Business School
Carol Heimer, Northwestern University
Brian Rappert, Exeter University
Steve Rayner, InSIS, Saïd Business School
Nigel Thrift, Warwick University
Marc Ventresca, InSIS, Saïd Business School
Contact: emily.davis@sbs.ox.ac.uk
University Forum on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research
20th February 2009, 02:00-6:30 at the Saïd Business School
Chair: Victor SeidelThe forum pulled together researchers working on entrepreneurship and innovation within the University of Oxford to discuss new developments in this field across disciplines. Speakers and participants included researchers from across the departments of management, sociology, economics, geography, and engineering who all shared a common interest in exploring the process of entrepreneurship and innovative activity.
Programme
Session 1: Entrepreneurship Research in International Development
Roya Ghafele, Lecturer in Politics
Governance of Design Innovation in the Fashion Industry
Xiaolan Fu, Lecturer in Development Studies
Openness and Innovation: Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Session 2: Entrepreneurship Research in the Saïd Business School
Victor Seidel, Lecturer in Management Studies (Entrepreneurship)
Coordination Totems in Entrepreneurial Organizations
Javier Lezaun, Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance
Innovation in the Social Studies of Science
Catherine Dolan, Lecturer in Marketing
Avon in Africa: Poverty Reduction through Entrepreneurship
Session 3: Practitioners’ Panel: Using the University as a Research Site
Tim Cook, Visiting Professor of Science Entrepreneurship
David Langer, Co-Founder & CEO of GroupSpaces
Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials
Session 4: Further Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research in Oxford
Dariusz Wójcik, University Lecturer in Geography
Innovation and Stock Markets
Felix Reed-Tsochas, James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems
Popularity dynamics: How innovations spread in the online world