Hyland extends links with Europe's innovation researchers
Published on 07 February, 2006
CQU Professor Paul Hyland will extend his links with Europe's innovation researchers this year, starting with visits to England and Denmark.
He will then host researchers from the Netherlands and Denmark in Rockhampton.
Professor Hyland will visit England in March for meetings with Professor John Bessant (of Imperial College London). The pair will work on a bilateral project that will establish innovation clubs in Queensland and Australia, extending a concept developed by Professor Bessant in the UK, Denmark and Germany.
While in England, Professor Hyland will examine a PhD candidate who is researching in the area of innovation management.
A few days later, the CQU academic will visit the CIP (Centre for Industrial Production) project group at Denmark's Aalborg University to examine a PhD candidate working on factors that inter-play in the collaborative improvement process.
Professor Hyland will then feature at a Aalborg University PhD seminar on continuous innovation, addressing the topic: ' Emerging themes in continuous innovation'.
Before leaving Aalborg, he wil examine a PhD candidate doing EU-funded research on CO-IMPROVE (Collaborative Improvement Tool for the Extended Manufacturing Enterprise).
While in Europe, the CQU academic will attend a board meeting of CINet, the Continuous Innovation Network. CINet is a global network set up to bring together researchers and industrialists working in the field of Continuous Innovation.
Once back in Rockhampton from April onwards, Professor Hyland will host a PhD researcher from Aalborg University's Centre for Industrial Production, who will visit for 4 months.
From May this year, the CQU academic will host a group of students from Uni Twente, Enschede in the Netherlands. The Dutch visitors are working on a Patterns in NPD (New Product Development) project. This aims to optimise NPD's contribution to sustained innovation.
Photo: Leading European innovation experts Harry Boer and John Bessant visited CQU's Professor Paul Hyland in Rockhampton in 2004. Professor Hyland will work with them again in Europe in March this year.