CEEMAN ExEd Forum “Executive Education: Managing Innovations”, was hosted by International Management Institute MIM-Kyiv. Sixty participants from 15 countries (Australia, Belarus, Finland, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK and USA) attended the event that brought together corporate leaders, management educators and business schools leaders, and policy makers to exchange their experiences and views on how to promote innovation processes and bring innovations into the market place, as well as on the role that executive education could and should play. Following the welcome words of the presidents of the event co-organizers, Danica Purg (CEEMAN) and Iryna Tykhomyrova (MIM-Kyiv), Liliya Hrynevych, Chairperson of the Committee on Science and Education of the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine proved a keynote address on Innovation to Support Company and Country Competitiveness. The morning of the main conference day included keynote presentation on Open Innovation, Cross-border Strategy, Large and Small Company Innovation Interaction. Chris Hare, Founder&CEO, The nTeTe Group, USA, stressed: “Future Leadership needs to draw from not only many disciplines, but from many industries and cultures.”
His lecture was followed by the international CEO panel on Breaking the Frameworks in Innovation Management, and The Learning Cycle of Innovation provided by Hein Schreuder, Former Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions at Royal DSM N.V., the Netherlands (until 2012), Vlerick Business School, Belgium. Hein Schreuder lectured about contrasting principles of open and closed innovation, stressing: “The open innovation ‘motto’ is The World is our Lab!”
The afternoon sessions included two panels. The first panel on Value Innovation: Concept and Instruments included representatives of the Ukrainian businesses, while the second panel on Implications for executive Education: Creating Synergy among Business Schools, Businesses and State in Managing Innovation included the respective stakeholders from Ukraine and international community. The event was chaired by Peter McKiernan, Dean of the School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University, Australia, who provided an inspirational summary of the Forum discussions and main recommendations on the main Does and Don’ Does related to managing innovation and the respective role that executive education could and should play. In addition to a special gala dinner at the House of Metropolitan, the host institution, which demonstrated high organizational excellence and warm hospitality, organized a formidable sightseeing tour which included a number of outstanding historically and culturally important places and monuments in Kiev.