This document announces a one-day workshop on innovation processes for advanced PhD students and junior faculty to present their research. The workshop will be held on September 26, 2013 at Leeds University Business School in Leeds, UK and organized by Professors Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, and Krsto Pandza. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research, receive feedback, and engage in discussions on innovation studies. The deadline to submit a 5-7 page extended abstract is September 2 and participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis.

1. Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative
(NARTI)
Developmental Workshop on:
INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT:
A PROCESS PERSPECTIVE
Professors: Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, and Krsto Pandza
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Leeds University Business School
University of Leeds
Room TBC
Leeds, UK
We invite advanced Ph.D. students and junior faculty to present their research at a developmental
workshop on innovation processes.1
Innovation has become increasingly important for the continued
vitality of firms and regional, national and global economies. At the turn of the 19th century,
innovation was driven by advances in manufacturing, and accelerated exponentially by its end
because of the advent of information technologies. Now, we believe that innovation in the 21st
century will be driven by responses to large societal challenges such as sustainability, population
growth, climate change, energy, poverty and access to healthcare. We would particularly welcome
projects on innovation that address such issues, although such a focus is not essential. We are also
very interested in research projects that investigate cultural, institutional and organizational aspects of
the changing nature of innovation processes.
The innovation process itself has many components including invention (the emergence of an idea),
development (the elaboration of the idea), and implementation (the widespread acceptance of the
innovation) as they unfold across firms, networks, and communities. In addition, there are
complexities associated with innovation processes including evolutionary complexity (e.g. path
dependence involved), relational complexity (e.g. the entanglements between social and material
elements that occur), temporal complexity (the asynchronies and diachronies that are involved), and
cultural complexity (differences in the meanings associated with innovation across cultural systems).
Proposals can cover any of these issues or related topics.2
Programme
This one-day workshop is designed to facilitate intensive interactions between experienced and junior
faculty so as to advance research projects that centre on investigating innovation processes in firms,
networks and wider communities. Each participant will have the opportunity to: (a) make a short
presentation of their research, (b) give and receive feedback and (c) engage in a group discussion on
the progress of the field of innovation studies.
1
If you are a member, NARTI will contribute towards your travel costs to the workshop. Please ask the
organisers for an expense claim form on the day.
2
For more on these themes see: Garud, Tuertscher & Van de Ven. (2013). “Perspectives on Innovation
Processes.” Academy of Management Annals; Garud & Gehman. (2012). “Metatheoretical Perspectives on
Sustainability Journeys: Evolutionary, Relational and Durational.” Research Policy, 41; Pandza & Ellwood
(2013). “Strategic and Ethical Foundations for Responsible Innovation.” Research Policy, 42.

2. To assure productive discussions, we request participants to submit an extended abstract (5-7 pages,
references included) that lays down the core arguments, theoretical positioning, methods applied, and
summary of findings (to the extent that they are already available). These extended abstracts will
serve as the basis for roundtable discussions that will generate feedback for participants on their
projects. Each participant will have an opportunity to make a short presentation at a designated
roundtable. And, each participant will be requested to read two of the proposals to provide some
feedback that will also serve as the basis for discussions.
The deadline for submitting the extended abstract is Monday 2nd September 2013. We will
inform you of your acceptance to workshop soon thereafter.
AGENDA
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee and registration.
10:00 - 10:25 Perspectives on Innovation Processes: Opportunities and Challenges.
Raghu Garud
10:25 - 11:25 1st roundtable discussion; 3 parallel roundtables.
Focus on participants’ research projects
11:25 - 11:30 Break.
11:30 - 12:30 2nd roundtable discussion; 3 parallel roundtables.
Focus on participants’ research projects
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch.
13:30 - 13:50 Sustainability Journeys.
Joel Gehman
13:50 - 14:50 3rd roundtable discussion; 3 parallel roundtables.
Focus on participants’ research projects
14:50 - 15:05 Break.
15:05 - 15:15 Summary of Roundtable discussion.
Krsto Pandza
15:15 - 16:00 Plenary discussion with the panel.
Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Krsto Pandza

3. About the Organizers
Raghu Garud
Raghu Garud is Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Management & Organization and the Research
Director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Pennsylvania State
University. Raghu’s research explores the emergence of novelty and its adoption. Specifically, he is
interested in understanding how new ideas emerge, are valued, and become institutionalized. He has
written extensively on these topics offering concepts such as path creation, economies of substitution,
technology entrepreneurship, bricolage as a collective process and the socio-cognitive bases for
technology emergence. Raghu is currently organizing a workshop on the emergence of novelty at
Crete, Greece.
Joel Gehman
Joel Gehman is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization, and H.E. Pearson
Faculty Fellow at the University of Alberta School of Business. He studies the strategies and practices
organizations pursue in response to emerging cultural concerns related to sustainability and values,
and the impact of such cultural concerns on technology innovation and institutional arrangements. His
work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Research
Policy and others. Ongoing research examines these issues in the context of shale gas drilling,
hydraulic fracturing patents, nuclear power plants, multinational divestitures, climate change, social
benefit corporations, and organizational codes of conduct.
Krsto Pandza
Krsto Pandza is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Leeds University Business School. His
research interest centres on understanding the role of technology innovation and organizational
capabilities in creating and sustaining competitive advantage in companies from technology and
engineering-driven industries. More precisely he explores the role of managers in creating and
strategically shaping innovation capabilities in complex organizations. His interest in emerging
technologies inevitably leads him to explore high-tech start-ups, industry-university collaboration, and
development of transnational research policy and ethical aspects of technology innovation. Krsto
currently leads a multi-million EU project focused on management of emerging technology for
societal impact. His work has been published in British Journal of Management, Journal of
Management Studies, Research Policy, Technovation and International Journal of Operations &
Production Management. Krsto serves on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Management
Studies.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
We encourage anyone who is interested from Europe to apply. If you are a member of NARTI, the
initiative will contribute towards your travel costs to the workshop. Please ask the organisers for an
expense claim form on the day.
The following link provides details for travelling to Leeds:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/20014/about/157/how_to_find_us
The following link provides accommodation searches for Leeds:
www.booking.com
HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP:
Please complete the booking form that appears and return to Joanne Garrick (details below) by no
later than Monday 2nd September 2013. Places are limited. Participants will be considered on a
first-come, first-served basis.

4. BOOKING
FORM
Innovation
for
societal
impact:
a
process
perspective
Thursday
26th
September
2013
Leeds
University
Business
School
Name:
University/Organisation:
Level
of
Research:
Doctoral
Student
Early
Career
Researcher
Staff
Area
of
Research:
Any
specific
interests,
issues
and/or
questions
you
wish
to
discuss:
Email:
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dietary
requirements
(e.g.
vegetarian,
Halal)
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requirements
Please
return
this
booking
form
to
Joanne
Garrick
at:
narti@lubs.leeds.ac.uk