The Annual Congress of the Verein für Socialpolitik consists of a core conference with invited lectures concerning "Digital Economy" and of an open meeting with mixed topics. Presentations and Organised Sessions for the open meeting may be submitted from all fields of economics.

Program: - Internet of Things and the Future of the Internet. - Technological Diversification into "Blue Oceans"? A Patent-Based Analysis of Mobile Health and Smart Energy Patent Profiles of ICT Firms. - Zero Rating, Traffic Shaping and the European Net Neutrality Regulation. - Regulation and...

We welcome papers dealing inter alia with the following: - The impact of solidarity in contexts of migration and integration - The significance of solidarity in a global, cosmopolitan society - The meaning of solidarity from a philosophical or theological point of view - The relationship between...