Paper Submission
Innovation Educators’ Conference (IEC) will bring together innovation educators, training professionals, business leaders, policy makers, and administrators nationwide to share ideas, pedagogies, teaching/training materials and best practices towards enhancing India’s innovation capabilities.
Conference Objectives
- To bring together thought leaders who can demonstrate how our education system can enhance creativity and innovation;
- To identify effective frameworks, tools, techniques and pedagogies for innovation education in schools, colleges, universities, and corporations and to diffuse them widely across India;
- To identify policy barriers to the inculcation of creativity and innovation in the Indian education system and to recommend policy changes to overcome these barriers.
Papers are invited on the following conference themes from academicians, trainers, and corporate leaders:
Conference Themes
- Innovation challenges faced by Indian industry: Implications for the education system (Panel)
- What holds back innovation in India? (Authors’ Panel)
- How can the education system facilitate grassroots innovation?
- Teaching methods in higher education to enhance innovation capacity
- Designing an engineering curriculum to create more innovative engineers
- Designing new institutions and universities for innovation
- Role of liberal arts education in creating an innovation culture
- Role of design education in innovation
- Technology transfer and commercialisation by Indian educational institutions
- Enhancing academia-industry interaction for greater innovation: Strategies and processes
- Can creativity be taught?
- How can school education enhance innovation? Policy and pedagogical changes required
- Innovation training methods: Best practices
- Designing innovation programmes in companies
- Teaching management of innovation
In addition to empirical or conceptual research, papers may also consist of:
- Case studies describing best practices, innovation methodologies or teaching innovations
- Curricula for teaching innovation/creativity
- Specific exercises or tools related to teaching innovation/creativity
- Survey of literature/latest findings related to the above themes
Authors are requested to identify lessons that can be diffused widely to help other teachers, trainers or institutions.
Presentation/Publication of Papers
While some papers will be selected for presentation in regular sessions of the conference, others will be featured in a separately designated poster session.
Selected papers will be compiled and circulated in the form of book/proceedings with the objective of diffusing ideas, methodologies and best practices. They will also be posted on the Web.
Submission Process
All papers must be submitted to clic@isb.edu. All papers are subject to review. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection within a week of submission. Papers should be 10-20 pages, double spaced, and with complete references and bibliography. Please use illustrations and figures when required.
Deadline for submission: April 10, 2011
Registration fee will be waived for the selected papers.
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Contact Us
Suchitra Sahgal
Conference Coordinator,
Centre for Leadership Innovation & Change
Indian School of Business
Email: clic@isb.edu
Ph: +91 40 23187143
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