Projects in innovation, innovation in projects selected papers from the IRNOP VIII conference

摘要

This special issue contains a selection of papers from the eighth IRNOP research conference which took place in Brighton in September 2007. IRNOP - the International Research Network on Organizing by Projects - was founded in 1993 as a loosely coupled network of researchers interested in projects and their management. The first conference took place in 1994 in Sweden with the theme 'Temporary organizations and project management'. Since then the conference has taken place every two years in Paris, Calgary (Canada), Sydney, Rotterdam, Turku (Finland), and Xi'an (China). Researchers from academic institutions around the world plus representatives from the project practitioner community attend the conferences. In 2006 it was decided to change from even to odd years to avoid clashes with some other important project related research conferences.