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Innovation is busting out all over Chicago this autumn

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Looks like a bumper crop of innovation-related events will be arriving in Chicago this autumn…and this flurry of activity clearly underscores the high priority and rising interest in innovation-supporting initiatives that have been announced in recent months.

Here is a quick list of a few of high-profile events that are scheduled for just one week in October:

R&D 100 Awards – October 18 black-tie event at Navy Pier

Chicago Innovation Awards – October 22 event at Goodman Theater

2nd Annual Chicagoland Innovation Summit – October 25 at Navy Pier.

Workshop on Leadership and Innovation

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Professor Brian Uzzi of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management will lead a network & learn event for executives titled:

Make Your New Ideas Infectious: Leadership, Influence and Social Epidemics

The event — which is co-hosted by Human Capital Institute, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and Kellogg — will begin at 730AM on July 25 at the NU’s Allen Center in Evanston and topics are expected to include:

  • Proven strategies and tactics for transforming your leadership style.
  • Tools you can immediately take back to the office to effectively promote your ideas.
  • Steps for building better executive networks and managing complex systems of social ties within firms such as knowledge management systems, intellectual communities of practice, and email networks.
  • The dynamics of innovation, diffusion, and change in market-based social networks such as blogs, patents, citations systems, and MySpace.com.

More information is available at:

Make Your New Ideas Infectious: Leadership, Influence and Social Epidemics.

Roundtable on The Creativity Imperative

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

The Marketing Roundtable at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (UC-GSB) will be featuring a presentation titled

“The Creativity Imperative – Why Creativity is Job One for America (and Your Company)” by Thomas Tresser.

The event will begin at 6PM on July 25 at the UC-GBS’s Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, and topics will include:

  • The vital role that creativity has come to play in society and the dimensions of the Creative Economy.
  • How you and your company can recognize, celebrate and accelerate your creative assets.

More information is available at

The Creativity Imperative – Why Creativity is Job One for America (and Your Company)

Chicago Innovation Awards deadline July 31

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

The deadline for submitting entries to the fifth annual Chicago Innovation Award program is July 31,2007.

To be eligible, nominees must have launched a new product or service between May 1, 2005 and July 31, 2006.

The contest is open to any type of organization with national or divisional headquarters in the Chicago area. Deadline for entries is July 31, and there is no cost to enter.

The awards program was co-founded by the Chicago Sun- Times newspaper and the Kuczmarski & Associates, a consultancy that specializes in new product and service development.

There is more information at Chicago Innovation Awards.