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                            CALL FOR PAPERS
               17th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference
                      - Standards and Innovation -


                           18 - 20 June 2012
                            Kosice, Slovakia



Organised by the
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Faculty of Economics at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica (UMB)
Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE).


We welcome original and innovative submissions papers from all areas of
standardisation. But the theme of the 17th EURAS conference is the
significance of standards and standardisation for innovation. At this
point in our history, innovation is critical for helping to move forward
from the global economic crisis, mitigate the impact of climate change,
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help resolve the food crisis. The
critical role of standards and standardisation for innovation has long
been recognised. As codified knowledge, standards acquire an even
greater role in the development of the global knowledge economy. We
particularly welcome theoretical and empirical papers that will
contribute to greater awareness of how and where standards can
facilitate, hamper, or otherwise impact on innovation in all its many
dimensions. Examples include, but are not limited to:

* Standardisation & infrastructure development 
* Standards, globalisation and national authenticity
* Conformity assessment for innovation
* The relation between standards and the development 
  of science/technology/society/economy
* Standardisation, globalisation and innovation
* Education on standardisation and innovation
* Legal and regulatory issues in standardisation
* Standards setting and implementation processes
* History and future of standards
* Standardisation policies
* Economics of standardisation
* Management of standards
* Research and standardisation
* Standards and technology transfer
* Quality standards and management strategies
* Markets and dominant technologies
* International accounting standards

Full papers (up to 40 double-spaced pages; pdf, rtf, or .doc format)
should be submitted to Kai Jakobs at [log in to unmask] 
Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon
request. All papers will be reviewed (double blind) by members of the
Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings, as part of the 'EURAS Contributions to
Standardisation Research' book series. Particularly good and relevant
papers will be fast-tracked to the review process of either the EURAS-
Yearbook or the Int. Journal of IT Standards and Standardization
Research (JITSR). The conference provides the opportunity to get
feedback on standardisation education papers intended for the special
issue of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education.
For more detailed information please consult the EURAS website
(www.EURAS.org).


Organisers
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The EURAS Board


General Co-Chairs
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Marta Orviska (UMB, SK) 
Vincent Soltes (TUKE, SK)


Programme Committee 
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Knut Blind (Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Berlin, DE; RSM. NL)
Tineke Egyedi (TU Delft, NL)
Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus U., LT)
Stephan Gauch (TU Berlin, DE)
Ian Graham (U. of Edinburgh, UK)
Jean-Christophe Graz, (UNIL, CH)
Vladimir Hiadlovsky (UMB, SK) 
John Hudson (Bath University, UK)
Eric Iversen (NIFU STEP, NO)
Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen U., DE)
Geerten van de Kaa (TU Delft, NL)
Peter Kristofik (UMB, SK)
Detlev Langmann (AKM, DE), tbc 
Pauline Mazumdar (U. of Toronto, CA)
Arturas Medeisis (Vilnius Gediminas TU, LT)
Ivana Mijatovic (Belgrade U., SRB)
Marta Orviska (UMB, SK) 
Megan Quinlan (Imperial College London, UK) 
Tomas Sabol (TUKE, SK)
Eberhard Seifert (WU Vienna, AT)
Vincent Soltes (TUKE, SK)
Klaus Turowski (Magdeburg, U., DE)
Taavi Valdlo (Ministry of Economic Affairs, EE)
Henk de Vries (Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL)
Marc van Wegberg (U. of Maastricht, NL)


Deadlines 
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Paper submission: 	 7 March 2012
Notification:     	28 March 2012
Final paper due:  	24 April 2012


Local Organisation and Enquiries
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Marta Orviska, [log in to unmask] 
Emilia Jakubikova, emilia.jakubikova@tuke,sk 


Conference Venue
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Hotel Yasmin, Kosice, http://www.hotel-yasmin.sk/. 

For more information about Kosice: http://www.kosice.sk/.
For more information about EURAS http://www.euras.org.


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Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax:  +49-241-80-22222
[log in to unmask] 
<http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/>

EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. 
<http://www.euras.org>

The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. 
<http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr>

The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization
Research' book series.
<http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142>