ICE'2007 - Concurrent (Collaborative) Innovation

Increasing global competitive environment imposes the compelling need to identify new paradigms, methods, applications and technologies to better support creativeness and innovation. Open Innovation, Co-Creation Living Labs and Front-End Innovation are brand new paradigms addressing the entire product design and development process. Hence the future of Concurrent Enterprising lies within the context of integrated design of customisable products, comprehensive services, and flexible/adaptable organisations where individuals, groups, businesses and communities collaborate together within loosely or tightly coupled networks through the use of on-line shared workspaces.

Now it is time to go a step forward, this is why ICE'2007 main theme is strongly related to the preparation of the new ESoCE-NET vision and roadmap. The previous one, published in 2004 and entitled “A Roadmap towards the Collaborative Enterprise – CE Vision 2010” needs to be revised, updated and complemented according to the up-coming new paradigms, methods, applications and technologies. ICE'2007 participants are invited to this discussion and to take part in this roadmapping exercise. Our current vision is based on recent studies (Gartner and ESoCE-NET) showing that by 2010 most knowledge workers or eProfessionals and citizens will spent 70% of their time working collaboratively and invest a significant part of their time 33% within communities of co-creators, helping them to realize their Knowledge, Business and Social expectations. Furthermore, it is forecasted that by 2010 most European Regions will set up Living Labs as a strategic differentiator for competitive regional development.

These are the some of the burning questions which the ICE 2007 will focus its attention on. It will bring leading researchers and practitioners together from all over the World presenting the newest findings from research and sharing practical cases from industry.

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