The broad themes: - Economic Malaise and the Social Consequences (Unemployment, migration, hardship and social tensions) - Austerity and the financing of urban and regional investment (Public-Private financial investments and ventures, new patterns of ownership and control, transport) - Whose...

Topics: - What are possible effects of environmental risks (e.g. climate change) and policies to mitigate them (e.g. carbon taxes) on central bank objectives (e.g. price and financial stability)? Through which transmission channels do these effects emerge? What roles might the financial system...

UACES accepts papers and panels on all areas of contemporary European Studies. We broadly define contemporary European Studies as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on current developments in European integration. We accept papers from across a range of disciplines including (but not...

Conference streams: - Co-production and co-creation, - Expanding the frontiers of social innovation theory: heterodox theories, non-positivist paradigms and embedded qualitative methodologies, - Economic underpinnings of social innovation, - Growing and scaling social impact, - Hybridity and...

How can organizations tailor, use, and extend techniques and tools from knowledge management for improving their business practices and processes? Building upon existing work on knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning, the conference will promote interdisciplinary approaches from...

This conference aims to provide an overview of frontier research analyzing the micro-level underpinnings of aggregate technology and aggregate economic performance. Some of the sub-topics include: - Firms and productivity - Firms and inequality - Firms and innovation - Firms and technology in...

Quality papers in all areas of regional science are welcome. Proposals for special sessions are invited. The RSAI-BIS is also organizing a DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM for doctoral students in regional science on August 30th.

Topics: - Social Policy challenging change: radical, resistant, resolute - Welfare reform - Welfare policy and politics - Austerity and Social Policy - Family policy and politics - Devolution, Governance and Citizenship - Race, Ethnicity & Migration - Current Political Landscape and Social...

Papers presented at the meeting include subjects about innovation topics that cross disciplines. Adjacent areas such as technology management, entrepreneurship, marketing of innovations, creativity, design, and teaching in the field are significant parts of the programme. The conference has...