2013 Press Releases
Award the Biz for PhD candidate
Denis Dennehy, a PhD candidate with the Business Information Systems Department has won the Best Academic Paper Award at the prestigious Innovation for Financial Services conference, held in Singapore recently.
Innovation for Financial Services is a series of specialised international events for people working with innovation in the financial services sector. The aim is to visit prime financial services centres across the world, building connections between financial services professionals and academics and enabling them to present and discuss the latest developments relating to innovations for, and within, the financial services sector.
Hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU), the conference included various keynote speeches, parallel sessions, discussion panels, and interactive sessions on innovation for financial services, both from a practitioner and an academic point of view. It provided opportunities to discuss and share experiences with academics, practitioners and policymakers, together with a taste of the international character of Singapore. A highlight of the event was the presentation of the “Best Practitioner Paper Award” and the “Best Academic Paper Award” during a gala dinner at the world famous Raffles hotel in Singapore.
Dennehy’s research focuses on the key partnership issues that emerge when designing a mobile payment business model. Using the principles of design science research, Denis designed a collaboration tool in the form of a "Partnership Management Canvas" and its utility was evaluated through a series of focus groups with over eighty practitioners in Ireland and Luxembourg.
Dr. Anne-Laure Mention, Head of the Research Unit at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor (Luxembourg) and Dr. Marko Torkkeli, Professor of Technology and Business Innovations, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland), organised the event.
Details of the 2014 Innovation for Financial Services conference which will take place in Montreal, Canada can be found at http://2014.innofin.org/