Organiser:
The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) is a worldwide network of academics, business leaders, consultants (A, B, C) and other professionals involved in Innovation Management. ISPIM's goals are to create a worldwide network of excellence in the field of innovation management, to enhance collaboration between its members and to be at the forefront of research on innovation. ISPIM achieves this via its international conferences and regional events, journal publications, collaborative research projects and other member services.

Host:
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a State University of New York (SUNY) college of art, design, business, and technology. FIT is the meeting place for innovative achievers, original thinkers, and industry pioneers. FIT’s singular approach to higher education balances a real-world curriculum with hands-on instruction. FIT offers more than 40 programs of study leading to the Associate’s, Bachelor’s, and Master’s degrees. The University provides students with an unmatched combination of specialized curricula, an in-depth liberal arts education, affordable tuition, and an extraordinary location in the center of New York City – world capital of the arts, business, and media.

Sponsor:
Lux Capital Management is a research-driven investment firm focused on founding, seed and early stage investments in the physical and life sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high growth sectors. Our investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux’s investment strategy ensures our portfolio companies are better connected, have deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors. The Lux team is recognized internationally as pioneers and thought-leaders in early stage venture capital. Our team has a successful track record of building, investing in, and adding highly strategic value to leading emerging technology companies started at more than 40 leading academic centers and government labs including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Texas, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Washington University, and Lawrence Livermore National Labs. We’ve been invited by the President to the Oval Office, appear frequently on CNBC, CNN and Fox News, and are regularly cited in The Economist, Forbes, Business Week, Barron’s, and other leading financial and technology publications. Lux launched strategic portfolio companies in market research/business intelligence (Lux Research), media (Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report) and public policy (NanoBusiness Alliance). These entities provide us with multiple edges over other venture capital funds for sourcing deals, adding value to the entrepreneurs and companies we invest in, and exiting investments.

Sponsor:
Product Genesis is a strategic innovation management consulting firm that spun out of the MIT Innovation Center two decades ago. Our unique competency is in the application of structured approaches for identifying and qualifying growth, disruption and whitespace opportunities, by matching evolving technology capabilities against changing market conditions. Our seasoned, technology-savvy cross-functional team is skilled at working across industry and market domains, and brings broad, lateral thinking that yields silo-busting product and services innovations. Our clients include some of the most successful innovators in the Global 2000, with shareholder returns far above industry norms.

Sponsor:
The Radical Innovation (RI) Group specializes in helping established companies, committed to technology-based and business model innovation, develop effective and sustainable innovation capabilities for growth and corporate renewal. The RI Group combines RPI and Babson College academic insights, with leading-edge industry experiences, and works across diverse industries to accelerate the lifecycle and increase the success rate of innovation investments. The company was established in 2001 upon release of "Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts" and continues to evolve the implementation roadmap for innovation with “Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation”, winner of Strategy + Business Magazine 2008 Innovation Award.

Proceedings & Book of Outlines:
Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) was established in 1969 as a national university of technology. LUT is a state-run university in Finland and is financed by the Ministry of Education. LUT is specialised in technology and economics. About 5000 students study in the various degree programmes offered by the university, and about 900 new students are admitted each year. There are about 500 postgraduate students, and 900 members of staff. The most outstanding feature of the university is the way in which it has succesfully integrated expertise in technology and economics. LUT's location on the border between the EU and Russia has also had a major impact on the university's activities and orientation.

Awards:
Wiley is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners.

Submissions Management:
ConferenceSubmissions does everything from abstract collection to proceedings production and invoicing. It is designed by people who run scientific events and understand where automation helps an event secretariat. ConferenceSubmissions is web-based, there is nothing to download and nothing to install. Its flexibility allows you to work how you like to do things and not vice-versa. Set-up takes 30 minutes per event, which we do for you during your free hour of online training. Thereafter, authors, presenters and reviewers access your dedicated page to manage their submissions and bookings while you retain control over deadlines, documents and communications.

Supporter:
Enterprizer Technologies is the provider of ‘intelligent’ decision management solutions driven by Enterprizer®, our innovative modelling system. Combining a structured framework with a powerful scoring system for multi-parameter analysis of stakeholders and success factors, Enterprizer® enables you to assess performance, determine success, and develop optimised strategies for improvement and implementation. Whether you are dealing with complex strategy issues or performing 'what-if' analyses, Enterprizer® provides you with valuable insights to help you make better and clearer decisions, with speed and confidence.

Supporter:
Moskowitz Jacobs Inc. Our award winning decision-based products have been used by many of the Fortune 500 corporations as well as by small to medium sized enterprises to assist with the launch of some of the most recognized products and brands worldwide (Our Client List). Whether through highly customized programs or self-authored web-based quantitative surveys, clients are fully empowered to identify major new opportunities and can exploit the opening rapidly, while the opportunity in the marketplace is still viable. There is no more powerful or actionable tool in the global marketplace.

Marketing Partner:
Innovation UK provides a global platform for the UK’s most innovative companies, products, research and applications and highlights Britain’s delivery and successful exploitation of innovative ideas. Investment in science and innovation is critical to the UK’s economical success in contributing to the world’s knowledge and turning great ideas into jobs and wealth.

Marketing Partner:
KnowledgeBoard started life as a European Commission-funded Special Support Action within the IST FP6 framework. Now run by Sift Media as a self-moderating global community, KnowledgeBoard has over 25,000 members and is home to the world's leading thinkers in corporate and academic knowledge. Experts can collaborate on subjects of innovation and knowledge management, as well as having access to news, features and white papers covering the latest topics in the knowledge management arena.