Organiser:
The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) is a worldwide network of academics, business leaders, consultants (A, B, C) and other professionals involved in Innovation Management. ISPIM's goals are to create a worldwide network of excellence in the field of innovation management, to enhance collaboration between its members and to be at the forefront of research on innovation. ISPIM achieves this via its international conferences and regional events, journal publications, collaborative research projects and other member services.

Host:
Innobasque, the Basque Innovation Agency, is a private non-profit association established to coordinate and promote innovation throughout the Basque Country and to encourage entrepreneurial spirit and creativity at all levels. Innobasque is made up of agents from the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation, private businesses, Basque public institutions, institutional representatives of Basque workers and business people and organisations of any kind related to innovation. Innobasque strives to offer a powerful platform and cooperation network to all its members. Through which the following are developed: activities which promote the values and attitudes associated with innovation in Basque society;activities that transmit an image of an innovative Basque country - the epicentre of R&D&I.

Main Sponsor & Conference Gala Dinner Sponsor:
BBVA, is a financial services group with more than EUR 542 billion in total assets, 48 million clients, 7,458 branches and approximately 103,000 employees in more than 30 countries. BBVA provides its customers around the world with a full range of financial services, including commercial and wholesale banking, retail banking services, consumer loans, mortgages, credit cards, securities brokerage, wealth management, pension plan management and insurance. The BBVA Group maintains a leadership position in Spain, Mexico, Latin America and the Sunbelt Region of the United States, country where it ranks as the 15th largest commercial bank by deposits, as well as operations in China, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, among others. As of September 2009, BBVA has a market capitalization of more than EUR 45 billion and it is listed in Madrid stock exchange, London exchange and NYSE, among others. BBVA reported in 2008 recurrent attributable profit of EUR 5.4 billion, excluding one-offs, and BBVA is one of the top leading Euro zone banks in terms of return on equity and efficiency.

Main Sponsor:
Bizkaiko Berrikuntza Agentzia (BAI) is a public organisation focussed on the promotion of SME-innovation in Biscay Province (Bizkaia) and is assigned to the Department of Economic Promotion of the Provincial Council of Biscay. BAI increases the culture of innovation in SMEs, supports continuing training and develops targeted innovation initiatives. It views this strategy of guidance, qualification and support as the departure point for collaborating with companies about to undertake an innovation journey as well as for those that are already immersed medium and long-term projects. Specifically, BAI offers consultancy and assessment to some companies and as well as a range of services that tries to promote the development of projects of product, process, market and organizational innovation to others. In addition, BAI develops many awareness and communication activities. Highlighted among these are the organization of events and learning courses and the provision of information through diverse publications.

Main Sponsor:
Lan Ekintza-Bilbao is the public society of Bilbao City Council dealing with employment support and enterprise promotion. Our mission is to contribute to the economic, strategic and support development in the city of Bilbao by increasing employment and the competitiveness of companies, through the design and execution of programs to adapt human resources to the needs of business, and support in setting up new businesses and of investing and improving management in small and medium businesses.

General Sponsor:
Imaginatik specializes in Innovation process and technology. Our mission is to help companies innovate, and we achieve this with our award-winning Idea Central software and our proven human and business methods. We have over 100 corporate customers and over 650,000 end users of our technology. For many of the world's best firms, we are their Innovation Infrastructure.

General Sponsor:
Product Genesis is a strategic innovation management consulting firm that spun out of the MIT Innovation Center two decades ago. Our unique competency is in the application of structured approaches for identifying and qualifying growth, disruption and whitespace opportunities, by matching evolving technology capabilities against changing market conditions. Our seasoned, technology-savvy cross-functional team is skilled at working across industry and market domains, and brings broad, lateral thinking that yields silo-busting product and services innovations. Our clients include some of the most successful innovators in the Global 2000, with shareholder returns far above industry norms.

General Sponsor:
The Radical Innovation (RI) Group specializes in helping established companies, committed to technology-based and business model innovation, develop effective and sustainable innovation capabilities for growth and corporate renewal. The RI Group combines RPI and Babson College academic insights, with leading-edge industry experiences, and works across diverse industries to accelerate the lifecycle and increase the success rate of innovation investments. The company was established in 2001 upon release of "Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts" and continues to evolve the implementation roadmap for innovation with “Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation”, winner of Strategy + Business Magazine 2008 Innovation Award.

Proceedings & Book of Abstracts:
Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) was established in 1969 as a national university of technology. LUT is a state-run university in Finland and is financed by the Ministry of Education. LUT is specialised in technology and economics. About 5000 students study in the various degree programmes offered by the university, and about 900 new students are admitted each year. There are about 500 postgraduate students, and 900 members of staff. The most outstanding feature of the university is the way in which it has succesfully integrated expertise in technology and economics. LUT's location on the border between the EU and Russia has also had a major impact on the university's activities and orientation.

Awards:
Wiley is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners.

Awards:
Gower Publishing is recognised as one of the world's leading publishers of specialist business and management books and resources. Our publishing programme covers many of the main business processes and functions and we are continuously developing new titles. Founded in 1967 Gower is an independent, global publisher.

Submissions Management:
ConferenceSubmissions does everything from abstract collection to proceedings production and invoicing. It is designed by people who run scientific events and understand where automation helps an event secretariat. ConferenceSubmissions is web-based, there is nothing to download and nothing to install. Its flexibility allows you to work how you like to do things and not vice-versa. Set-up takes 30 minutes per event, which we do for you during your free hour of online training. Thereafter, authors, presenters and reviewers access your dedicated page to manage their submissions and bookings while you retain control over deadlines, documents and communications.

IT Support:
Ratio Strategy & Innovation Consulting GmbH is a consulting firm based in Austria with offices in Germany. Founded by Michael Dell, Ratio Strategy & Innovation focus on consulting in the following areas: strategic analysis and planning; innovation-management; new product development; evolutionary product design; bionics, bionIQuity® and TRIZ; marketing of innovative products; technology foresight and technology strategies; knowledge management; e-commerce, web 2.0 and semantic web.

Marketing Partner:
Innovation Europe promotes partnerships and co-operation within Europe with a view to driving improvements in knowledge and technology transfer, cross border collaboration and helping bridge the gap between research and development. The publication attracts international companies and organisations to share Europe's research and development capabilities in partnerships with leading European universities. Innovation Europe promotes open innovation and environment where academia, research and business innovation can collaborate to ensure growth and development throughout Europe in order to accelerate the innovation process.

Marketing Partner:
Innovation UK provides a global platform for the UK’s most innovative companies, products, research and applications and highlights Britain’s delivery and successful exploitation of innovative ideas. Investment in science and innovation is critical to the UK’s economical success in contributing to the world’s knowledge and turning great ideas into jobs and wealth.

Marketing Partner:
KnowledgeBoard started life as a European Commission-funded Special Support Action within the IST FP6 framework. Now run by Sift Media as a self-moderating global community, KnowledgeBoard has over 25,000 members and is home to the world's leading thinkers in corporate and academic knowledge. Experts can collaborate on subjects of innovation and knowledge management, as well as having access to news, features and white papers covering the latest topics in the knowledge management arena.