OpenSpace Workshops 73 This is a facilitated, delegate-driven meeting in a fully open format that generates collaboration and creativity. Participants themselves create the agenda, pose questions, raise the topics they think are important, join the breakout sessions they are most interested in, and co-create the conversation. Thursday 27.10.2011 14:00-15:30 OpenSpace Open Format Session #6 OpenSpace Workshop The Big Question: is there a formula to prevent innovators from being killed off by their own organizations? The last ten years has seen a growing body of research into how innovation can be nurtured in the workplace. Organisations have repeatedly tried to figure out how to embed innovation into organizational structures as normal business practices. These efforts, perhaps unsurprisingly, fail again and again. New ideas disrupt the status quo and are all too often attacked as a type of “infection” and pushed out by those afraid of change. Policy makers and businesses appreciate the importance of innovation, but need to better understand how, in bureaucracy- stifled top-down organizations, good ideas and the mavericks that seed them can be nurtured, rather than ostracized. What can leaders do to ensure innovators aren’t killed by their own organizations? How can corporate cultures harness inspiration? Inspirational, context-setting stories will provide examples of how businesses or leaders internally destroyed what eventually turned out to be a “big idea”. This workshop invites business and policy leaders who have experienced the pitfalls of integrating innovation into their organisations to join the debate with young innovators and high-level policy makers trying to promote innovation (particularly in ICT) in their national agendas. Participants will leave the workshop with a clearer understanding of best innovation practice in large organizations. Thursday 27.10.2011 14:00-15:30 WorkSpace #2 Innovation Models in Top-Down Organizations OpenSpace Workshop