| The First Trust Bank Innovation Lectures
seek to bring international expertise in innovation to Queen’s
and the wider Northern Ireland Business Community. |
The first lecture was given by James Dyson,
of Dyson vacuum cleaners in June 2001 and with the support of First Trust
Bank and Invest NI this lecture series continues at Queen’s University
throughout the year. To date, Innovation Lectures have covered themes
ranging from new product development and breakthrough management to the
latest theories on creating clusters and how small countries can become
exemplars of innovation.
For details on First Trust Bank Innovation
Lectures click on the associated press release below.
Thursday
22 March 2007
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| Professor Lord Robert Winston of
Hammersmith
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lecture was entitled “Manipulating Reproduction”, Lord
Winston highlighted the implications of reproductive manipulation
and debated the value of ‘ordinary humans’ if the possibility
of manufacturing ‘superhumans’ becomes a reality.
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Tuesday
6 February 2007
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| Costas Markides,
Professor of Strategic and International Management and Chairman
of the Strategy Department at the London Business School
Costas talked about 'Using Innovation
to Drive Our Competitiveness'
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Wednesday
6 December 2006
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| Michael McGrath,
Managing Director, Stena Line Freight.
Michael talked about 'The Innovative
Power of Individuals'
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Wednesday
1 November 2006
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| Baroness Susan Greenfield
from Oxford University, Wednesday 1 November 2006.
Baroness Greenfield talked about
'The Private Life of the Brain'.
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Tuesday
26 September 2006
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Professor Richard Lester of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Tuesday 26 September 2006.
Richard talked about 'Innovation
– the Hidden Dimension'.
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Tuesday
9th May 2006
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| Professor Joe Lassiter,
Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, on
Tuesday, 9 May, at 6.00pm, G9, Lanyon North, Queen’s University
Belfast.
Joe talked about “Going Global,
Staying Local”.
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Tuesday
21st March 2006
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Professor Rob Handfield,Tuesday
21 March 2006.
Rob talked about “The Impact
of China on Global Supply Chains”.
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Thursday
17 November 2005
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Roger La Salle, Matrix Thinking,
Australia
Innovation – the key to market success
17 November 2005
Roger gave an inspiring and challenging
lecture on discovering new market segments, innovation and ‘Matrix
Thinking’.
http://www.matrixthinking.com/
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October
2005
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Baroness Greenfield is a research
scientist, an entrepreneur, a communicator of science and policy
adviser. She is Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain,
and Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University, where she heads
a multi-disciplinary research group.
In an Innovation Lecture on Monday
24 October, Baroness Susan Greenfield offered the prospect of a
world free of pain and disease, where we can manipulate our bodies
with machinery, our moods with 'smart drugs' and our innate nature
with gene therapy, - where what we eat, our relationships, jobs,
even the way we fight wars, - will be transformed by technology.
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April 2005
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Don Braben, Visiting Professor
with University College London has just published his most recent
book ‘Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking’. In
his Innovation Lecture Don shared his experience on Blue Skies Research,
what it means and if it can be promoted. He also discussed the policies
and practices he felt are needed for major new discoveries to happen
in today’s world.
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March 2005
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Dr Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar
in Residence, Babson Collge and Harvard Business School, presented
an Innovation Lecture on the theme of "What’s the Big Idea:
Creating and Capitalising on the Best Management Thinking”.
Based on his internationally recognised, award-winning research, Larry’s
lecture provided an insight into the many achievements of idea practitioners,
how they initiate and develop ideas within organisations, and how
they have had those ideas accepted.
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November
2004
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Professor Joe Lassiter teaches Entrepreneurial
Marketing in the MBA Program and Marketing Strategy in the Executive
Education Program at Harvard Business School. His research focuses
on high potential ventures, including both those formed as new companies
and those formed within existing organisations. He is active in new
ventures and currently serves on the boards of Bluefin Robotics and
RSA Security.
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September
2004
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Professor Rob Handfield, Director,
Supply Chain Resource Consortium;
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain
Management;
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Operations Management
North Carolina State University
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June 2004
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Dr Ivor Kenny, Senior Research Fellow,
University College Dublin: A former chairman of the Smurfit Paribas
Bank, and Director General of the Irish Management Institute from
1962 to 1983, Ivor Kenny argues that survival in today’s highly
competitive market requires constant innovation in organisations,
but at the same time people need clarity of direction to work on common
ground and feel connected to their organisation.
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May 2004
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Professor Rick Satava, Professor of
Surgery with Washington Medical Centre and Manager of the Advanced
Biomedical Technologies Program at the US Defence Advanced Research
Projects Agency: One of the world’s leading experts in the biotechnology
revolution with a fascinating insight into new technologies that are
changing the future of medicine.
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March 2004
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Professor Allen Scott, Director, Centre
for Globalisation and Policy Research, UCLA: The Vautrin Lud International
Award winner is an authority in industrial location and economic development
and in his Innovation Lecture shares his special knowledge of “Clustering,
Location and Networks”.
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For further information or to register
for the next First Trust Bank Innovation Lecture please contact Claire
McGivern the Regional Office, Queen’s University Belfast (email:
c.mcgivern@qub.ac.uk; tel:
028 9097 1145).
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