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...

What is the role of the Welfare State in a time of economic crisis, fiscal austerity and social problems? This conference, organized by the University of Lisbon, aims to stimulate academic discussion on the present and future of the welfare state in Portugal. It is expected to be a meeting of...

In this workshop we want to consider both the economic dimension and the social dynamics of ageing societies. We welcome submission of theoretical, empirical and policy papers. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the relation between population ageing and the...

Since 1987, the European Association for Creativity & Innovation (EACI) (www.eaci.net) co-organizes the bi-annual European Conference on Creativity & Innovation (ECCI), together with a local creativity and innovation association in Europe, with the intention of providing a platform for...

The regional meeting of the EU branch of the IASC will have as its theme “Shared Resources in a Rapidly Changing World”, reflecting the emphasis on the currently well recognized fact that many if not most resources (e.g. natural resources, social capital, knowledge) require a shared...

MSKE 2011 will have the following objectives: - To analyze the economy of the 21st century as a knowledge based economy (KBE) led by the services sector. - To understand how to improve the management of services in the KBE. - To analyze the Service driven Knowledge Economy from a...

The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas. An important question related to...

Topic: Policies of Economic and Social Development in Europe The conference has 7 specific areas of focus: - Institutions for Economic Growth - The Efficiency of Transaction Costs - Markets and Human Resources - Economics of a Knowledge Based Society - Institutions, Innovation and Productivity -...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Socio-economic networks - Network generation mechanisms in socio-economic models - Evolutionary networks - Complex systems and emergent networks - Tools for network dynamics - Games on Networks

The conference will focus on the relationship between technological innovation, institutions and development, by exploring general subjects linked to innovation and competition at the firm, the industry and more aggregated stages, including the sector, the region and the national system...