Koen chairs European Front End of Innovation Conference
Stevens professor chaired Austria conference in January
HOBOKEN , N.J. — Dr. Peter Koen, Professor of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, chaired the second European Front End of Innovation Conference in Vienna , Austria , January 28-31, 2008 . The Front End of Innovation’s mission is to determine and disseminate effective practices in the front end in order to increase the number of highly profitable and successful major products and processes. Koen is the Director of Stevens’ Consortium for Corporate Entrepreneurship.
The conference was hosted in the same format as the previous year, with a pre-conference day offering the choice between a symposium or one of the workshops, two main conference days and a half-day academic workshop. Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, best known for his study of innovation in commercial enterprises, and Simon Woodroffe, motivational speaker and entrepreneur, were keynote speakers. Christensen focused on how companies should develop products and business models based on “the job to be done” and interweaved this perspective with his theory on disruptiveness. Woodroffe took quite another approach and provided a most entertaining and interesting presentation on the foundation and history of his company, YO! The conference attendees even enjoyed him singing and dancing on stage at the end of his talk. For more extensive overviews of the keynote presentations, please go to http:www.innovativeye.comAbout Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
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