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Deadline for submission of abstracts: 9 January 2026
The conference encourages the submission of cutting-edge research that engages with the challenges and opportunities emerging at the intersection of digital change, sustainability, and geopolitical shifts.
Contributions may include conceptual, empirical, and policy-oriented work that addresses the governance of innovation, the future of global value chains, new business models, mission-driven innovation, and anticipatory approaches to technological change.
We invite bold thinking on how innovation and technology management can remain not only relevant, but transformative, in a world in flux.
Conference topics
大会主题：
Abstracts are invited on the following topics and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system. 会议现征集以下主题的口头摘要和墙报摘要，请您通过我们的摘要提交系统进行提交：
1. AI in Innovation: Augmentation, Automation, and Ethics 1. 创新过程中的人工智能：增强、自动化与伦理
Engaging with how artificial intelligence is changing R&D, design, forecasting, and innovation decision-making—and raising new ethical and governance issues.
2. The Platformization of Industry: Ecosystem Strategy and Value Reconfiguration 2. 产业平台化：生态系统战略与价值重构
Understanding how digital platforms orchestrate ecosystems, reshape industries, and create new power structures in the global economy.
3. Open Innovation in the Post-Platform Era 3. 后平台时代的开放创新
Investigating the evolving logic of open innovation in complex multi-actor settings, including platform ecosystems, regional clusters, and public-private partnerships.
4. User-Driven and Community Innovation in Digitally Mediated Contexts 4. 数字时代的用户驱动与社群创新
Exploring grassroots innovation, citizen science, maker movements, and online communities as sources of technological and social innovation.
5. Mission-Oriented Innovation and Societal Challenges 5. 使命导向型的技术创新与社会挑战
Analyzing how innovation systems are being reoriented toward grand challenges—climate, health, mobility—through public missions, partnerships, and policy instruments.
6. Strategic Foresight and Technological Forecasting in Innovation Management 6. 创新管理中的战略预见与技术预测
Deep-diving into methods and applications of foresight, Delphi studies, roadmapping, and horizon scanning across sectors.
7. Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation Capture in Global Firms 7. 全球企业的动态能力与创新机会捕获
Understanding how multinationals manage R&D and innovation investment amid turbulence, including geopolitical stress.
8. Sustainable Futures: Innovation for Environmental and Social Resilience 8. 可持续未来：面向环境与社会韧性的技术创新
Examining the interplay between technological innovation, environmental transitions, and inclusive development at the firm, ecosystem, and policy levels.
9. Reinventing Industrial Policy for the Digital Age 9. 数字时代产业政策的重构
Critically evaluating how governments and supra-national bodies shape innovation trajectories through strategic investments, regulation, and ecosystem building.
10. Global South Innovation Pathways and Alternative Models of Development 10. 全球南方崛起的创新路径与替代性发展模式
Investigating innovation trajectories and ecosystem models emerging from the Global South, especially amid shifting global power dynamics.
11. Quantitative Technology Forecasting and Scouting Mechanics 11. 定量技术预测与技术侦察机制
How firms deploy data driven scouting, text mining and extrapolation models to detect emerging industrial technologies and guide R&D investment strategies.
12. Cyber physical Systems & Smart Manufacturing Management 12. 信息物理系统与智能制造系统的技术管理
Study of managing IoT enabled manufacturing systems, digital twins, and smart factory operations to optimize technical performance and production agility.
13. Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty in Engineering Projects 13. 重大工程项目深度不确定性下的决策机制
Application of robust scenario planning and adaptive frameworks (DMDU) to manage engineering and technology investments amid highly uncertain futures.
14. Supply Chain Digital Technologies and Innovation Capability 14. 供应链数字技术与创新能力
Exploration of how digital tools (e.g. blockchain, analytics, automation) enhance innovation capability within supply chain engineering and operations.
Guidelines for authors
You can submit as many abstracts to the conference for review as you would like. If, after the review by the committee, you have more than one paper accepted for the conference, you will need to register to attend and pay an additional paper fee for each additional paper (i.e., for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th papers – not the 1st). Please note this is for papers that you are the presenting author of, not papers that you are co-author of.
Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours for your receipt to be returned to you.
Once the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference.
Abstracts of all accepted contributions will be included within the online abstract system which will be distributed to all registered conference participants.
For revisions or queries regarding papers already submitted
If you do not receive acknowledgement for your abstract submission or you wish to make any essential revisions to an abstract already submitted, please DO NOT RESUBMIT your abstract, as this may lead to duplication. Please contact us with details of any revisions or queries. Please quote your reference number if you have one.
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