Conference Report
The 14th International Conference on the Management of Technology
Sally Davenport
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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The International Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT), Vienna, May 22-26 2005.
This year's IAMOT conference was supported by UNIDO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and was held at UNO city, across the Danube from old Vienna. The conference dinner was held in the spectacular Rathaus (City Hall), at which awards were made to the 50 'elite' MOT research institutions.
The IAMOT conference tends to very industry-focused and most of the keynotes speakers were drawn from local industry or governmental organisations. It also has a strong MOT education function and had one plenary session devoted to this, including the possibility of setting up and accreditation system for MOT programmes. Like the Triple Helix conference, IAMOT attracts delegates from a great range of countries. However, as with last year, there were a large number of 'no-shows' (more than 50% in some sessions), which makes following your interests rather a lottery. Hopefully this recurring problem will be addressed at next year's conference to be held in Beijing (22-26 May 2006), entitled 'East Meets West', which is being very capably organised by Max von Zedwitz of Tsinghua University. In addition, for those that don't want to travel quite so far east, David Bennett, of Aston Business School in Birmingham, will be hosting the second European IAMOT conference (the first having been held there 11 years ago) from 10-12 September 2006.
More information about IAMOT and both conferences can be found at www.iamot.org.
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