IWARI 2005 Workshop Vision, Mission and Objectives

In the spring of 2004, a group of fifty leading scholars and industrial practitioners of radical innovation from around the world [1] established the vision for a dramatically improved, global, accelerated radical innovation methodology that could significantly improve the arduous, meandering, often decades-long process of radical innovation, thereby achieving a factor of 2X -10X improvement in innovation effectiveness --- as measured by reduced risk, reduced time and reduced cost.   To realize this Vision, they proposed a Mission to develop sound theory and validate practical open-innovation approaches that would integrate technical and business innovation professionals and knowledge workers in a collaborative environment enhanced by computer science and telecommunication tools. The workshop Objectives are to identify and document robust theories and verifiable approaches for the new paradigm of Accelerated Radical Innovation, and to explore the potential for applying this knowledge to accelerate development of industrial technology and economic clusters for global competitiveness in major regional, national and global industry sectors.  After assessing the unique dynamics of Accelerated Radical Innovation (ARI) differentiating it from classical incremental, radical or next-generation innovation, participants will assess collaborative scenarios for further developing and validating information enhanced accelerated radical innovation opportunities of the new paradigm.

[1] “Accelerate Radical Innovation - Now!”, Research-Technology Management, Vol.47 (5), 2-4, Sept-Oct, 2004.

IWARI 2005 Workshop Information For Participants

The Sponsors invite all who can benefit from an accelerated radical innovation community of research and practice: business and marketing executives, engineers, scientists, academicians (science and engineering, business, economics, technology management), government leaders (research managers, policy managers, agency executives, regulators, think tank experts), and financial leaders (venture capitalists, investment bankers, investment analysts).  The IWARI 2005 website at http://www-iwari2005.eng.utoledo.edu  provides information on the workshop program, registration, travel, lodging, and a modest workshop fee covering most meals and local transportation.  The organizers invite participants to submit Comments at http://www-iwari2005.eng.utoledo.edu/pages/Comments.htm to guide brainstorming session discussions addressing the synergy of the “Grand Challenges for Accelerated Radical Innovation” (diagram below) in achieving a 2X-10X improvement in technology and economic cluster development.  Participants may also submit Abstracts at http://www-iwari2005.eng.utoledo.edu/pages/Abstracts.htm either for Poster Session Papers or for Peer Reviewed Papers for the  publication in a special issue of the Peer Reviewed Journal, The Industrial Geographer.

IWARI2005 Workshop Structure