Innovative Practices in Work, Organisation and Regional Development - Problems and Prospects

12-14 June, 2013
Conference venue: Konsert & Kongress, Linköping, Sweden

One of the greatest challenges for contemporary private and public organisations is to continually develop their capabilities for innovation and sustainable development. The International HELIX Conference emanates from the perspective that the organisation is not only an effective production system but, under certain conditions, also a system for promoting learning, health, gender equality and innovations.

Today, enormous amount of resources, private as well as public, are spent on programmes and projects facilitating innovations, entrepreneurship, learning and competence development. Research teams have worldwide provided models and methods to companies as well as public organisations in order to achieve competitiveness, sustainable development and economic growth. Practitioners have developed and deployed measures and methods to improve the organization’s capability to meet new challenges and survive in a more and more competitive environment.

The International HELIX Conference intends to build bridges, not only between different fields but also between researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The International HELIX Conference wants to bring forward improved knowledge about the various models and methods of intervention, about the implementation process and about the impact of these approaches. In particular, the importance of the partnership approach needs to be examined in order to link research and practice tighter together.

Six tracks are running through the conference, see the Conference Program.

Innovative Work Systems for Production, Products and Services
Learning and Innovation at Work
Health, Work Ability and Competence
New Forms of Organisation - New Ways to Organise
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Managing Projects - Measuring Impacts

As transversal tracks, the conference will highlight how learning, innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and well-being may benefit from a comprehensive gender perspective in project management as well as the impact of sustainability as a long term objective. Moreover, the conference outcome may profit by juxtaposing various approaches, such as individual versus organisatorial level; theory-oriented versus practice-oriented methods; descriptive-explanatory versus development-oriented perspectives, and employee versus employer viewpoints.

The conference is intended to become an arena where researchers and practitioners will be able to share knowledge within their professional groups as well as between them. The programme will therefore offer a menu of plenary sessions, parallel thematic sessions, dialogue sessions and reflection groups.

The International HELIX Conference is organised by HELIX VINN Excellence Centre, Linköping University, in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Jönköping Academy, Luleå University of Technology, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) and the Swedish ESF Council (ESF).

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