Innovation Seminar Invitation – free for AACS Members

RMIT University Melbourne
On Tuesday 25th of February we have a visitor from the USA who will be presenting a seminar on aspects of product innovation. I would like to extend an invitation to you to come along and participate. This is a brown bag seminar so please bring your lunch. Orange juice and water will be provided.
Please RSVP to me via this email (mike.reid@rmit.edu.au).
Seminar details as follows
Date: Tuesday 25th February.
Venue: RMIT University Building 80, 445 Swanston Street (80.11.009 i.e. building 80, level 11, room 009).
Time – 12.30 – 2pm. Seminar runs 1.00pm – 2.00pm.
Title: The Evolution of Interorganizational Relationships in Emerging Ventures: An Ethnographic Study within the New Product Development Process
Emerging ventures rarely have the resources they need, which generally forces them to reach beyond their boundaries to access these resources. While the field has acknowledged how critical external relationships are in the emergence process, we lack an understanding of how these relationships evolve. Drawing on 14 longitudinal case studies, this article begins to fill that gap by examining how emerging ventures use interorganizational relationships to discover, develop, and commercialize new products. We found that emerging ventures tended to establish outsourcing relationships early, and that many outsourcing relationships progressed into alliances; suggesting that these early relationships were dynamic, evolved through the emergence process, and may be critical to the successful emergence of the venture. We also discovered that many entrepreneurs developed strong socioemotional bonds with their alliance partners. Unexpectedly, our study revealed that in many cases these socioemotional bonds clouded the entrepreneur’s judgment of the partner’s abilities and led to problems that threatened the venture’s survival.
Expert Speaker:
Professor Tucker J Marion is the The Sam and Nancy Altschuler Faculty Fellow and Bornstein Endowed Faculty Fellow, Professor of Technological Entrepreneurship. Professor Marion is also the Co-Director, of the High-Technology MBA and Co-Director, of the Institute for Global Innovation Management at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Tucker has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA) and a Master of Science in the Management of Technology, (University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA)
Tucker has held numerous product development and manufacturing positions at large corporations, including Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation. While at Wharton, Tucker got the bug to start his own company, and shortly thereafter he co-founded the Innovation Factory, where he headed product development and operations. After leaving the Innovation Factory, he began FlashPoint Development, leading the design effort for numerous consumer and technical projects.
This promises to be an interesting seminar and we invite you to attend.
Kind regards
Mike Reid