Call for Submissions
INFORMS Technology Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section
2017 INFORMS TIMES Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition
The Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) invites submissions for its 2017
INFORMS TIMES Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition. Dissertations defended no more than two years prior
to February 1, 2017, and all research topics broadly related with the subject of technology management,
product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development and entrepreneurship are eligible.
Each submitted dissertation will be judged by a panel of domain experts, based on its contribution towards the
advancement of theory and practice of technology innovation management and entrepreneurship. The finalists will
be invited to present her/his work in a special session at the INFORMS 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas,
October 22-25, 2017. The award winner will receive a monetary award and a plaque at TIMES business meeting
during the INFORMS annual meeting.
A complete submission must include three documents:
1) A cover page with author-identifying information including
a. the title of the dissertation,
b. the entrant’s name, current affiliation, address, e-mail address, telephone number
c. dissertation completion date,
d. degree-granting school, and
e. the names of dissertation chair and dissertation committee members
2) A dissertation summary of at most ten 8.5" x 11" pages (not including references and appendices) in standard
format (1’’ margins all around, double-spaced, 12 point font). The dissertation summary must focus on
explaining the main contributions of the research and the relevance and importance of the contributions.
Please make sure that there is no author-identifying information in the summary.
3) A full, completed dissertation. Please remove the name of author as well as the academic affiliation from the
dissertation.
Please use filenames reflecting the author's last name and short title of the dissertation. All documents should be sent
in Word or PDF format in a single email to Professor Zhijian Cui at [email protected] with a subject heading “2017
INFORMS TIMES Dissertation Award Competition”.
Submission Deadline: March 9, 2017
Any question(s) related to the competition should be sent by email to Professor Zhijian Cui at [email protected]
Zhijian Cui, PhD
Coordinator, 2017 INFORMS TIMES Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition Committee
TIMES @ INFORMS
IE Business School, Operations and Technology Management Area
Madrid, Spain
HKUST Business School, Information System, Business Statistics and Operations Management Department
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong, China