Honours ForumE C O N O M I C S & B U S I N E S S

16 February, 2012Academy Building Room A2

Groningen

Future Trends in Innovation

in association with

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Preface

After a successful Honours Forum in October 2011, we want to invite

you to the second Honours Forum of this academic year.

The theme of this evening will be Future Trends in Innovation.

The concept of innovation is a very interesting one, we could say

that innovation is the catalyst to growth. During this economically

challenging times, innovation may very well be the rescue for many

businesses. That is, if they make use of it properly.

We invited Arnout Appelo, owner of Appelo Management

Consultancy B.V., and prof. dr. Dries Faems, professor of Innovation

and Organization at our faculty of economics and business, to tell us

all about future trends in innovation. Dr. Christoph Streb, assistant

professor at the faculty, will be chairman of the evening.

We hope you will enjoy the forum!

The Honours Forum committee

Pascal Nattkamp, Ruud Schrijver, Nathalie Fuchs, Jessica van der Kroef

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Programme

19:30 hrs

Reception

19:50 hrs

Introduction by chairman dr. Christop Streb

20:00 hrs

Prof. dr. Dries Faems

20:45 hrs

Break

21:00 hrs

Arnout Appelo

21:50 hrs

Closing

22:00 hrs

Drinks at De Keyzer

Date

Thursday, 16 February, 2012

Location

Lecture room A2

Academy Building

Broerstraat 5

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Chairman

Dr. Christoph StrebAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Innovation Management & StrategyFaculty of Economics and BusinessUniversity of Groningen

Dr. Christoph Streb is an assistant professor at the University

of Groningen, working at the department of Innovation

Management & Strategy, and he is also fellow at the SOM

Research Institute of the University of Groningen. His expertise

is entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, and aging workforce

management.

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Speaker

Prof. Dr. Dries FaemsProfessor of Innovation & OrganizationDepartment of Innovation Management & StrategyFaculty of Economics and BusinessUniversity of Groningen

Dries Faems is a professor of Innovation & Organization at the University of Groningen, as well as an affiliated researcher at the Research Centre of Organization studies of the Catholic University of Leuven. With his thesis titled: “Collaboration for Innovation: Processes of Governance and Learning in R&D Alliances.”, he not only became Doctor in Applied Economics, but also a finalist of the 2007 BPS Best Dissertation Competition. He published in several journals such as Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Product Innovation Management. His expertise is innovation, alliances, and acquisitions.

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Speaker

Arnout Appelo is a marketing executive focused on market

orientated innovation. He is the owner of Appelo Management

Consultancy BV., and worked at Philips as a senior Product

Manager and Consumer Marketing director. He gained

international experience in France and Brazil. Last year he gave

a lecture on Innovation for Honours students of the Business

stream.

Arnout AppeloOwner of Appelo Management Consultancy B.V.

Special thanks to…

Eva Kool, EBF

Sophie Paulides, EBF

Sjoerd Rieske

Evelien Croonen

Padma Rao Sahib

Christoph Streb

Dries Faems

Arnout Appelo

Honours College