The PhD workshop will be held on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 September 2017, before the 18th International CINet Conference in Potsdam, Germany, and ends at the afternoon of the last regular conference day (12 September 2017), while there are also meetings during the conference. The CINet PhD workshop offers two classes of attendance, depending on the experience of the PhD student. Note that this classification relates to full time students; for part time students longer time periods might be more relevant. The first year's class is aimed at students who are in the first or early second year of their PhD research. These participants present and discuss their research design. Students who took part in the first class will be invited to join the second class, the following year. These participants are typically in the second or early third year of their studies. The presentations by, and discussion with, these students focus on results and (preliminary) conclusions (contribution to the theory and/or practice of continuous innovation).