Dr Liyanage at CERN, ATLAS project

Monday this week, 8 September, Dr Liyanage was speaking at CERN, ATLAS project on the topic of "How does leadership work in a scientific community like ATLAS?" ATLAS project is well known and it is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons. ATLAS Experiement will commence on 10 September with a loan beam of protons will complete the first lap around the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

It is proud to be associated with this landmark experiment of mankind. See details. http://www.atlas.ch/

Details of ATLAS was published in the following book:

Shantha Liyanage, Rüdiger Wink, Markus Nordberg ( 2007) "Managing Path-Breaking Innovations CERN-ATLAS, Airbus, and Stem Cell Research, Foreword by Peter Jenni",Praeger Publishers, Westport.

See book Review:

Liyanage, Wink and Nordberg explore the connection between scientific progress and patterns of innovations by investigating three central programs:

The particle physics experiments in the CERN-ATLAS collaboration, aviation research at the Airbus consortium, and biotechnology advances in stem cell research groups. Describing "path-breaking innovation" as a constellation of events, situations and manifestations of change, learning, leadership and motivation, the authors organize their study around the themes of change processes, work and production philosophies, strategies and collaborations, change environment, spatial dimension, leadership and funding. They conclude that path-breaking innovations are based on good science embedded in a social-system of openness, tolerance, respect and patience.
                                                           —SciTech Book News March 2007