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Conference announcement & Call for pre-conference participation Welcome to PINC 2011 Participatory Innovation Conference 14th - 16th January 2011 in Sønderborg, Denmark Participatory Innovation gathers theories and methods across academic fields that describe how people outside an organisation can contribute to its innovation. Join this conference to help identify ways for industry and the public sector to expand innovation through the participation of users, employees, suppliers, customers etc. – both on a strategic level, in concrete methods, and in the day-to-day interactions. PINC 2011 is held under the auspices of the SPIRE Research Centre Industry and public agencies increasingly adopt user-driven and open innovation, as they realise that innovation cannot come solely from within an organisation. Innovation happens in the ‘breaking of the waves’ between people outside and people inside – because they have different stakes and perspectives. In academia, new breakthrough contributions to understanding innovation – and supporting it – will also emerge in the borderlands between disciplines that traditionally do not collaborate: between languages and design, and between management and anthropology for instance. PINC 2011 is a forum where participants from different disciplines and organisations can meet and challenge each other to develop the field of participatory innovation. The conference presents an exciting programme of five tracks For further details please visit the PINC 2011 website http://pinc.sdu.dk Please distribute this announcement as widely as possible Thank you. ------------- from: Chris Heape PhD - design education, design process Mads Clausen Institute University of Southern Denmark Alsion 2 6400 · Sønderborg Denmark ------ http://www.sdu.dk/mci Work @ MCI: tel: +45 6550 1671 e.mail: [log in to unmask]