Is Innovation Grammatically Correct?
Thursday 3 April, 6.30pm at ICI London
The book The Grammar of Innovation: A Literary Exploration of Technological and Organizational Change by Andrea Prencipe and Massimo Sideri (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) offers an opportunity to engage in a thought-provoking conversation on inter-disciplinarity. Based on Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the book introduces the ‘Calvino Method’ as an interpretative framework of innovation. A round-table discussion will bring together perspectives from an entrepreneur, a corporate manager, and academics from management studies, development studies, and humanities. Their dialogue will highlight the crucial role of inter-disciplinarity in higher education, fundamental to equip students with tools to navigate and govern complex challenges.
Greetings by Francesco Bongarrà, Director, Italian Cultural Institute, London
Roundtable
Virginia Acha – Merck Sharp & Dohme
Stephen Bach – King’s College London
Jennifer Burns – University of Warwick
Annabelle Gawer – University of Surrey
‘Funmi Olonisakin – King’s College London
Andrea Prencipe – Luiss University
Riccardo Zacconi – King, CEO
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Andrea Prencipe is Professor of Organisation and Innovation at Luiss University and former Rector of the same University. His research focuses on innovation in organisations and higher education institutions. Andrea has published with international publishers (e.g., Oxford University Press) and in prestigious academic journals (e.g. Administrative Science Quarterly).