Department of Business Administration invites to a public research seminar.
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 11:00-12:00 in room SOC-356 / MS Teams
A presentation by Anne Berthinier-Poncet, PhD (Professor in Innovation Management of Laboratorie interdisciplinaire de recherches en sciences de l'action (Lirsa) at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), Paris).
📝The integration of the arts into corporate innovation has gained increasing attention as a way to enhance creativity, inspire novel problem-solving approaches, and expand innovation beyond purely commercial goals. This presentation explores the intersection between art and responsible innovation, examining how artistic approaches such as Art Thinking and circular design can help organizations align their innovation strategies with environmental, social, and ethical imperatives. The insights from in-depth interviews with executives and artists, show how artistic practices can be systematically embedded into organisational innovation processes, fostering absorptive capacity and enhancing firms' dynamic capabilities and how arts-based innovation practices can catalyse responsible and frugal innovation. By positioning the arts as a strategic enabler of sustainable and transformative innovation, this presentation provides new insights into how organisations can balance creativity with responsibility, ultimately shaping more ethical and impactful innovation ecosystems.
Professor Anne Berthinier-Poncet holds a PhD in Management Sciences and a master’s degree from ESCP Europe. Before transitioning to academia, she spent fifteen years working in industrial SMEs and international business. Since 2013, she has been Associate Professor at CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) in Paris and a researcher at the LIRSA lab. She leads the master’s programme in Innovation Management and Disruptive Innovation and coordinates a Certificate in Collaborative Innovation Management. Her research focuses on collaborative and responsible innovation, with particular interest in the practices and methods that foster creativity and sustainability in both private and public organizations. She investigates themes such as multi-actor and multi-level governance, proximities, innovation communities, and the territorialization of innovation, notably through clusters and collaborative innovation spaces (internal labs, fab labs, third places). Her work also includes projects on open and collaborative innovation in the public sector—such as with the French National Gendarmerie—and in the outdoor sports industry, especially around eco-innovation challenges. More recently, she has explored Art Thinking as a creative and reflective approach to responsible innovation. An active member of international academic networks such as the Academy of Management (AOM), R&D Management, and ISPIM, she regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals including Management International, Journal of Business Research, European Management Journal, Creativity & Innovation Management, Industry & Innovation, Revue Française de Gestion, and Innovations.
The seminar is in English. Further information: pia.riips@taltech.ee