Dr Bettina von StammCatalyst & Director Innovation Leadership Forum

For the past 20 years Bettina has been a visionary and original thinker at the boundary between business and academia, working in the field of her passion: innovation. While she values academic rigour, her main concern is practical relevance. During her independent career she has always taken great pleasure and pride in combining and balancing a number of different activities such as research, teaching, writing, running networking initiatives and engaging in public speaking.

Having worked independently in the field of innovation since

1992, in 2004 she set up the Innovation Leadership

Forum (ILF, www.innovationleadershipforum.org), primarily

to put her networking initiative on a proper footing.

Innovators Anonymous (the Innovation Leadership Forum

Networking Group) has grown from 3 members in 2004

to 15 members today, and is made up primarily of large,

multinational organisations. The group, meeting four times

per year, has a high degree of diversity, in terms of industries

represented as well as background of participants. Topics

covered in the workshops are proposed by either members

or the group’s founder, whereby the latter will always kick

off the event by sharing latest views, insight and research

on the topic in question before handing the floor to

participants or guests to share their insights, approaches

and experiences. The events are always extensively written

up to encourage and support the dissemination of the

knowledge gathered inside member organisations.

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The Future of Innovation

In which Dr Anna Trifilova and herself

have knitted together the thoughts, dreams,

hopes, fears and wishes of over 200 leading

thinkers in the innovation community (Gower,

2009); see also www.thefutureofinnovation.org

Managing Innovation Design & Creativity

Is a text book structured around 12 case studies

and 22 chapter that cover a broad range of

innovation-relevant topics; also available in simplified

Chinese, and shortly also Arabic (Wiley, 2008, 2nd ed);

The Innovation Wave

For general managers, those who want

to start on their ‘understanding innovation

journey’, and those who appreciate a holistic

approach to innovation (Wiley, 2002).

For her facilitated tool for the assessment of conditions for innovation, also called Innovation Wave ® ( www.innovationwave.com), she won the RSA’s (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Onians Fellowship in 2003.

Focusing on post graduate programmes, she has taught at academic institutions such as London Business

School, Middlesex University, Liverpool University and the University of Northumbria in the UK, the Technical

University Munich, the Zollverein School of Management and Design, the Handelshochschule Leipzig as

well as the University Leipzig in Germany, and the DePaul University in the US. In addition she has held the

International Chair for Innovation and Design at the ICN Business School Nancy University in France (2007-08).

In her writing, while generally based on research, Bettina focuses on the practitioner audience; in addition to numerous articles she has published three books,

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