First All-Island Innovation programme Lecture - The Future of Knowledge

Date : Monday 17.11.08

Details : The economic downturn offers Northern Ireland companies a great opportunity to rethink how they do business, says international knowledge management guru Larry Prusak.

The founder of global consortium, the Institute of Knowledge Management (IKM), will share his expertise and insights with local business leaders in a major lecture at Queen's University Belfast on Monday night (17 November).

The event marks the launch of the InterTradeIreland All-Island Innovation Programme (AIIP) which aims to enhance the competitiveness of the all-island economy and to bring world leaders in innovation to Ireland.

The three-year programme, a partnership between InterTradeIreland, Queen’s University Belfast, University College Dublin and University College Galway, will support an all-island research community on innovation.

It will also deliver an annual series of lectures, an all-island conference and master classes aimed at specific audiences such as senior company management, policy makers and innovation researchers.

Larry Prusak believes that Ireland, North and South, has a definite advantage over its bigger competitors in tackling the current recession.

He says: “The credit crunch offers companies on this island, whatever their size, a great opportunity to sit back and review what they really need to do to become a 21st century organisation.

“Smaller countries have no division of knowledge, instead they have networks, and most new knowledge is created and shared when different people or organisations work together collaboratively or in networks. Experience has demonstrated that sharing knowledge generates innovation.”

In his lecture entitled ‘The Future of Knowledge’ Larry Prusak will discuss the impact of the break-up of the western world’s monopoly on knowledge and the influence of the IT revolution on wealth creation.



Location : Canada Room, Queen's Univerity Belfast

Times:
6pm

Contact:
Anyone wishing to attend should email regional@qub.ac.uk or call 028 9097 2575.

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