As ICE'2007 conference chair, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the Call-for-Papers: www.ice-conference.org

Main theme of the conference is: “Concurrent Innovation: An Emerging Paradigm for Collaboration & Competitiveness in the Extended Enterprise“

I also would like to encourage you to attend ICE'2007 and test the French "south" hospitality without to mention the traditional food and wine taste that are awaiting for you.

Here are some explanations about Concurrent (Collaborative) Innovation:
Increasing global competitive environment imposes the compelling need to identify new paradigms, methods, applications and technologies to better support creativeness and innovation. Open Innovation, Co-Creation Living Labs and Front-End Innovation are new and emerging paradigms addressing the entire product design and development process.
Hence the future of Concurrent Enterprising lies within the context of integrated design of customisable products, comprehensive services, and flexible/adaptable organisations where individuals, groups, businesses and communities collaborate together within loosely or tightly coupled networks through the use of on-line shared workspaces. This year’s ICE’2007 main theme is strongly related to the preparation of the new ESoCE-NET vision and roadmap. The previous one, published in 2004 and entitled “A Roadmap towards the Collaborative Enterprise – CE Vision 2010” needs to be revised and updated to encapsulate the emerging paradigms, methods, applications and technologies.

ICE’2007 participants are invited to contribute to the shaping of the future vision by taking part in this roadmapping exercise by addressing some of the following questions: What does new ways of organising or working mean in practice and for research? How does new forms of organisations or new ways of working changes existing engineering methodologies, applications and tools? How do we design tangible and intangible goods in an integrated manner? Which information and communication technologies are needed to support new form of organisations and new ways of working? What is the impact on engineering work and future on-line workplaces? Which social and legal aspects need to be considered? How co-creation Living labs could help us in involving all stakeholders (Public-Private partnership), including EU citizens, in the design and experimentation of new approaches, methods and technologies?

These are some of the burning questions which the ICE 2007 will attempt to address. It will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their latest findings from research and sharing practical cases from industry.