Subject:
The Future of Innovation Studies
Date:
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:17:21 +0100
From:
"Verspagen, H.H.G." <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Friends,
Please find attached and below a call for papers. Feel free to
distribute to
interested colleagues and post a printout of this.
Best regards,
Bart Verspagen
Call for Papers
The Future of Innovation Studies
The Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies (ECIS) at Eindhoven
University
of Technology (the Netherlands) will organize a conference on 'The
Future of
Innovation Studies', 20-23 September 2001. The conference will host a
number
of plenary sessions featuring some of the key contributors to the field
of
innovation studies. Speakers invited in the plenary session include
(stars
indicate confirmed speakers): Koenraad DeBackere (Leuven), Giovanni
Dosi*
(St'Anna School, Pisa), Andrew van de Ven (University of Minnesota) Jan
Fagerberg* (TIK, University of Oslo), Ikujiro Fujimoto, Ranjay Gulati
(Northwestern), Bengt-Åke Lundvall* (Aalborg), Franco Malerba*
(Bocconi),
Kevin Morgan* (Cardiff), Richard Nelson (Columbia), Keith Smith*
(UNU/Intech, Maastricht), Michael Song* (ECIS), Nick Von Tunzelmann*
(SPRU,
Sussex).
In addition, a number of parallel sessions will be scheduled. A call for
papers for these parallel sessions is now open.
Topics of the conference include all areas of the social sciences
perspective on the innovation process. Special emphasis will be placed
on
contributions in the area of the economics of technological change,
innovation management, and sociology of innovation processes. Specific
topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to the
following: measurement and analysis of technology and innovation; the
relation between innovation and performance; the contribution of
intuition
and creativity to the innovation process; habits and perceptions of
customers related to newly developed products; innovating teams; the
management of innovation; innovations strategies; technology policy and
regulation; innovation in clusters and networks; intellectual property
rights; (evolutionary) models of technological change; the history of
technology; sectoral studies of technology dynamics; the link between
institutions and innovation.
Proposals for papers to be presented in the parallel sessions are
invited in
the form of an abstract of 250-500 words. Abstracts must be received
before
15 May 2001. Authors will be informed about the decision of the review
process before 1 June 2001. Accepted papers will be made available for
conference participants, and are expected to arrive in Eindhoven a month
before the conference. Presenters of papers in parallel sessions are
expected to cover their own expenses, although a conference dinner and
documentation will be offered. Assistance in reserving hotel
accommodation
(at various prices) will also be offered. The conference is also open
for
participants not presenting a paper.
Proposals for papers can be faxed, emailed or snailmailed at the
following
addresses:
ECIS Conference Committee
attn. Bart Verspagen, DG 1.21
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
Netherlands
fax +31 40 2474646
email [log in to unmask]
Conference information will be made available at the ecis website:
http://www.tm.tue.nl/ecis
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