This international conference, started in 2004 (KMAP), has now been renamed as “International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific (IKMAP)” to include the important element of “innovation management”. This biannual conference has been held in different cities before including Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok, Kobe, Japan, Wellington, New Zealand as well as Guangzhou, Xian and Shanghai, China. The International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of Innovation, Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management research.