Keynote speakers

 

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Keynote-title: Organizing for Learning at Work - an Important but Neglected Dimension of Innovation Systems.

Bengt-Åke Lundvall is professor in economics at Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University. He was Deputy Director at OECD-Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry 1992-95. He initiated, and since 2003 he co-ordinates, the worldwide network on innovation research, Globelics (www.globelics.org).

Lundvall is world leading expert on the socioeconomics and management of innovation and knowledge. Together with Christopher Freeman he developed the concept ‘innovation systems’. He has also introduced the concept ‘the learning economy’. In recent years he has produced important contributions linking innovation to work organisation in Europe showing how the Nordic model of participatory work goes hand in hand with innovation activities. In connection with the current crisis he has called for ‘a new new deal’ with a more egalitarian distribution of access to learning.

 

  

Francois Daniellou
TRACK: Innovative work systems for production, products and services

Keynote title: Subsidiarity in the Organisation, a Key Issue to Prevent Psychosocial Risks.

Francois Daniellou, head of the Department of Ergonomics at Bordeaux Institute of Technology, has a degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris. Ergonomics training in ergonomics laboratory of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts led by Alain Wisner and Antoine Laville. PhD 1985 in Ergonomics, habilitation to direct research in 1992. He is part of CPP, Committee of prevention and precaution with the Ministry of Ecology, Prevention and Sustainable Development since 2003.
The International Ergonomics Association in 2009 awarded him the Outstanding Educator Award. It is an international award issued once every three years, "in recognition of outstanding contributions in the area of ergonomics education for having developed ergonomics education programs".
His research deals with the relations between organisation and health, notably the prevention of psychosocial risks and human and organisational factors of industrial safety in high risk industries.

 

 

kAREN EVANS
TRACK: learning and innovation at work

Keynote title: Developing Knowledgeable Practice - the Starting Point for Workplace Innovation.

KAREN EVANS is Research Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was previously Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. She is a leading researcher in the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Centre LLAKES, investigating Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies. Karen Evans’ main fields of research are learning in life and work transitions, and learning in and through the workplace. She has directed major studies of learning and work in Britain and internationally. Recent books include The Sage Handbook of Workplace Learning (2011); Improving Literacy at Work (2011) Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (2009); Improving Workplace Learning (2006); She is joint editor of the Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, 2012 and Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).

 

 

 

Karina Marietta Nielsen
TRACK: Health, work ability and competence

Keynote-title: Organisation and Implementation of Workplace Health Promotion Interventions: How Can We Organize and Implement Workplace Health Promotions to Ensure a Successful Outcome?

Karina Nielsen is professor of work and organizational psychology at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark. Her main interest lies within the area of intervention research: How to facilitate positive and sustainable changes and how to evaluate such interventions combining process and effect evaluation using mixed methods. She has also published extensively on the links between leadership and employee health and well-being.

 

 

 

 

Elin Kvande
TRACK: new forms of organisation - new ways to organise

Keynote-title: Changing World of Work - The Nordic Model under Pressure? 

Elin Kvande is Dr.polit. in sociology from NTNU (1999) and cand.polit. in sociology from the University of Trondheim. She became professor in 1999 at the Institute for Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, where she had been employed as chief assistant since 1991. Previously, she worked as a researcher at SINTEF-IFIM. Kvande publishes in the areas of gender, organisation and leadership, new organisational forms, globalisation and well-fare politics. She publishes frequently in different media, and is often used as a speaker.

 

 

 

 

 

Alain Fayolle
TRACK: Entrepreneurship and regional development

Keynote-title: Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Key Outcome of Entrepreneurship Education.

Dr. Alain Fayolle is a professor of entrepreneurship, the founder and director of the entrepreneurship research centre at EM Lyon Business School, France. His research interests cover a range of topics in the field of entrepreneurship: education and training, corporate entrepreneurship, new venture creation process, family entrepreneurship, opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship, etc. Among them, entrepreneurship education issues take a great place. On this topic, Dr. Fayolle has notably edited three volumes of the Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education (2007 and 2010, Edward Elgar Publishing). He has also been (and still is) acting as an expert for different governments and international institutions (OECD, EC).

Alain published over twenty books and one hundred articles in leading international and French scientific journals. Among his editorial positions, he is notably an Associate Editor of JSBM and an Editor of two leading French journals.

 

 

Veronica Gaffey
TRACK: managing projects - measuring impact

Keynote-title: Theory Based Evaluation:  A Range of Approaches to Assess Impact.

Veronica Gaffey has been Head of the Evaluation Unit of the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission since March 2007.  

During 2006, she was head of the Innovative Actions Unit of DG REGIO. She joined the Evaluation Unit in 2000 from the ESF Evaluation Unit based in the Ministry for Enterprise and Employment in Dublin, Ireland. There she managed the unit from its inception in 1992. Before that she worked in the Ministry for Labour from 1986. Her academic background is the study of English literature.

In the Evaluation Unit in DG REGIO, her priorities have been to significantly improve the evidence available on the performance of Cohesion Policy. Together with her colleagues she launched an ambitious ex post evaluation of the 2000-2006 period which has delivered new insights into the performance of the policy. These insights have fed into the policy debate – in particular the strengthened result orientation which the Commission proposals for Cohesion Policy post 2013. The second priority is to improve the reporting by Member States on the achievement of their objectives, to support the building of evaluation capacity in the Member States, and to encourage Managing Authorities to carry out more evaluations exploring the effects and impacts of the policy.

 

 

Professor Henry Etzkowitz
Track: triple helix innovation: moving beyond boundaries to hybrid spaces

Professor Henry Etzkowitz, at Stanford University, is a scholar of international reputation in innovation studies as the originator of the ‘Entrepreneurial University’ and ‘Triple Helix’ concepts that link university with industry and government at national and regional levels. As President of the Triple Helix Association, he is at the centre of a unique international network of several hundred scholars and practitioners of university-industry-government relations. Henry is also the co-founder of the Triple Helix International Conference Series, which has produced a series of books, special journal issues and policy analyses since it started in Amsterdam, 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The list of speakers may be subject to change outside our control, for example due to illness. We reserv our rights to replace speakers if this should happen.

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