Dr Bettina von StammCatalyst & Director Innovation Leadership Forum
For the past 20 years Bettina has been a visionary and original thinker at the boundary between business and academia, working in the field of her passion: innovation. While she values academic rigour, her main concern is practical relevance. During her independent career she has always taken great pleasure and pride in combining and balancing a number of different activities such as research, teaching, writing, running networking initiatives and engaging in public speaking.
Having worked independently in the field of innovation since
1992, in 2004 she set up the Innovation Leadership
Forum (ILF, www.innovationleadershipforum.org), primarily
to put her networking initiative on a proper footing.
Innovators Anonymous (the Innovation Leadership Forum
Networking Group) has grown from 3 members in 2004
to 15 members today, and is made up primarily of large,
multinational organisations. The group, meeting four times
per year, has a high degree of diversity, in terms of industries
represented as well as background of participants. Topics
covered in the workshops are proposed by either members
or the group’s founder, whereby the latter will always kick
off the event by sharing latest views, insight and research
on the topic in question before handing the floor to
participants or guests to share their insights, approaches
and experiences. The events are always extensively written
up to encourage and support the dissemination of the
knowledge gathered inside member organisations.
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The Future of Innovation
In which Dr Anna Trifilova and herself
have knitted together the thoughts, dreams,
hopes, fears and wishes of over 200 leading
thinkers in the innovation community (Gower,
2009); see also www.thefutureofinnovation.org
Managing Innovation Design & Creativity
Is a text book structured around 12 case studies
and 22 chapter that cover a broad range of
innovation-relevant topics; also available in simplified
Chinese, and shortly also Arabic (Wiley, 2008, 2nd ed);
The Innovation Wave
For general managers, those who want
to start on their ‘understanding innovation
journey’, and those who appreciate a holistic
approach to innovation (Wiley, 2002).
For her facilitated tool for the assessment of conditions for innovation, also called Innovation Wave ® ( www.innovationwave.com), she won the RSA’s (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Onians Fellowship in 2003.
Focusing on post graduate programmes, she has taught at academic institutions such as London Business
School, Middlesex University, Liverpool University and the University of Northumbria in the UK, the Technical
University Munich, the Zollverein School of Management and Design, the Handelshochschule Leipzig as
well as the University Leipzig in Germany, and the DePaul University in the US. In addition she has held the
International Chair for Innovation and Design at the ICN Business School Nancy University in France (2007-08).
In her writing, while generally based on research, Bettina focuses on the practitioner audience; in addition to numerous articles she has published three books,
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