The subject of the conference is "The Role of Knowledge, Innovation and Human Capital in Multifunctional Agriculture and Territorial Rural Development." This conference is being held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the

Topics: - Collaboration and open innovation - Commercialising and financing innovation - Entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship - Innovating business models - Innovation and IP - Innovation policy for economic recovery - Integrating innovation practice into education - Lean innovation - Managing...

The theme for this biennial in "North by Northwest, South by Southwest, Canada and the United States: Past, Present and Future". All proposals should have a distinctive Canadian focus, but we also encourage submissions that consider Canada in a comparative context. We are particularly interested...

The conference will give priority to papers that further understanding of the factors that contribute to greater entrepreneurship and formal sector participation, the role of entrepreneurship in promoting growth, and the impact of related policy reforms. The conference is also interested in...

Conference "tracks" for researchers, directors, and editors/communicators will provide a wide range of stimulating panels and presentations. Continuing our theme from Bellingham last year, a number of panels this year will highlight research on a variety border issues, from security to trade to...

Today, knowledge and intellectual capital plays a principal role in the delivery of corporate performance. This importance is reflected in the fact that companies, without the force of any regulations, start to measure their knowledge and intellectual capital, they even produce and externally...

The objective of this conference is to explore efforts to create and sustain the links vital in an interconnected world. Whether physical or virtual, these connections are the ties that bring the world together and their absence or failure can hamper the ability of a region or society to grow...

We aim to assess our understanding of institutional innovation while provocatively exploring nascent directions. That is, the conference will: - take stock of one of the central lines of research over the past few years, namely, the study of how institutional dynamics are both structured by,...

Network industries--telecommunications, electricity, gas, water, etc.--are currently undergoing major changes, the most significant being the entry of competitors. These conferences aim to be at the cutting edge of these developments by providing the opportunity to discuss the research of...