This conference, in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee year of the ISI, seeks to examine the development implications of emerging fields in economics and to re-examine old questions in the light of new problems and new evidence. The goal of the conference is to bring together new research...

Topics: - Knowledge sources of entrepreneurship (e.g. from science, employees or users) - Human capital challenges for enabling and sustaining entrepreneurial activity and innovation - Issues in entrepreneurship culture - Assessment of the spatial distribution and local clustering of innovative...

Topics: - Case studies of innovative business practice - Contributions on the role of government - Studies of innovation and new product development - Skills, training and the development of human capital - Approaches to the provision of infrastracture - Investigations of knowledge management in...