PhD course Design science perspectives on innovation & entrepreneurship research – tue.nl

This PhD course is offered by the ITEM group of the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, in cooperation with EuroTech Universities, and is endorsed by the TU/e Graduate Program Industrial Engineering.
PROGRAM
The program outline of the course is given below. Registered participants will receive a detailed course manual (with readings and assignments) six weeks before the start of the course. All sessions are conducted in Microsoft Teams, starting at 13:00h (with one exception: see January 18):
Monday 11 January, 13:00-16:00 CET
Entrepreneurship, innovation and design (Georges Romme)
Studies of entrepreneurship, innovation and design are increasingly complementary and feeding on each other. This also reflects Herbert Simon’s idea of business research as a design science (DS) that promotes the interaction between science- and design-oriented researches. This introductory session serves to discuss several DS notions and frameworks.
Tuesday 12 January, 13:00-17:00 CET
Designing boundary objects (Madis Talmar)
This session focuses on the design and development of boundary objects between research and practice. Several example projects in which instrumental models and tools operate as boundary objects are discussed, to explore why this kind of work is valuable, how to engage in it, and so forth. The underlying ‘boundary object’ theories and implementation strategies are also elaborated.
Wednesday 13 January, 13:00-17:00 CET
Design principles in design science (Isabelle Reymen)
This session explores several DS outputs and specifically the pivotal role of design principles in DS: how can design principles be shaped, based on systematic literature reviews and/or empirical findings? How do design principles inform the development and prototyping of solutions, etcetera? Furthermore, recent design-oriented work on decision-making logics in new business development is discussed.
Thursday 14 January, 13:00-17:00 CET
Doctoral students present & receive feedback from panel
This session provides the opportunity to a limited number of participants to receive feedback on either a draft version of their PhD research proposal (for 1st year PhD students) or a paper- in-progress (for 2nd to 4th year PhD students). The panel in this session includes Isabelle Reymen, Bob Walrave, Madis Talmar and Georges Romme.
Friday 15 January, 13:00-17:00 CET
Front end of new product development (Fred Langerak & Katrin Eling)
The front end of new product development (NPD) involves activities such as opportunity identification, ideation, concept development, and concept evaluation and testing. This session serves to discuss recent work on NPD at the interface of science and design, focusing on the question why some new products are more successful than others and how the front end contributes to this success.
Monday 18 January, 12:00-16:00 CET
Design experiments in new product development (Philip Cash)
The theoretical and methodological rigor of NPD work is often rather limited. This session explores how design driven NPD research can become more theory-driven and experimental in nature. Various examples of recent work drawing on so-called ‘design experiments’ are discussed.
Tuesday 19 January, 13:00-17:00 CET
Open Innovation (Marcel Bogers & Jason Li-Ying)
Open innovation entails a distributed innovation process that involved knowledge flows across organizational boundaries. This session with explores the state of the art of open innovation research, considering various conceptual and empirical perspectives. We also discuss the implications for designing innovation processes as well as the organizations in and across which they take place.
Wednesday 20 January, 13:00-16:00 CET
Doctoral students present & receive feedback from panel
This session provides the opportunity to a limited number of participants to receive feedback on either a draft version of the PhD research proposal (for 1st year PhD students) or a paper- in-progress (for 2nd to 4th year PhD students). The panel includes Philip Cash, Myriam Cloodt, Fred Langerak and Georges Romme.
Instructors and Panel Members
 
Administrative and Application Details
The participation fee is € 600 for non-EuroTech participants. This fee covers participation in all sessions and access to all course materials. From students of one of the EuroTech universities, no participation fee is required.
Participants successfully completing the course will obtain a certificate. The course has a study load of 6 ECTS. The maximum number of participants is 25.
Interested students should apply before December 1, 2020. Doctoral students of EuroTech universities are given priority, but only if the application is received before the deadline with all the required documents (see below). Your application by email to item.ieis@remove-this.tue.nl should contain the following documents (as attachments to your email message):
Notably, the last point is not a formal requirement in applying for this PhD course. If you’re a first- year PhD student seeking feedback on your (DS-based) research proposal, you can add a draft of this proposal to the application. If you’re a more senior PhD student seeking feedback on work- in-progress, you can add either the full manuscript or its abstract. The program includes two sessions offering the opportunity for a number of participants to present and get feedback on work-in-progress or dissertation proposals.
Please send your application by e-mail, with your personal details (name, address, affiliation) and the required attachments to item.ieis@remove-this.tue.nl
 
Cancellations
The ITEM group, as the organizer of this course, retains the right to cancel the course up to 6 weeks in advance. All registered (non-EuroTech) participants will then get their registration fee reimbursed. Registered participants can cancel their registration (with full reimbursement of the fee) until 20 December 2020. No reimbursement on cancelled registrations will be possible after that date.
Organizer
The prime organizer of this doctoral course is the ITEM group of the TU/e department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. Course coordinator: Georges Romme (a.g.l.romme@tue.nl). Administrative support: Astrid Baltus (item.ieis@remove-this.tue.nl), +31-40-2472170
Key Readings & Assignments
The course is taught via a blend of lectures, discussions and assignments based on scientific articles from top journals in the field (see below). Students are expected to study the required reading materials, make article-related assignments and come to class prepared to discuss the articles and the assignments in an interactive mode. The course manual with reading materials and assignments is made available to registered participants.
De Zaale
Eindhoven
Phone number: +31 (0)40 247 9111
Contact
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven

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