We especially encourage submissions addressing issues like: the nature, the structure and the governance of both internal and external acquisition, diffusion, and creation of knowledge; the interactions between internal and external sources for innovation; the strategies adopted to source and...

Topics: - National and European legal regime’s evolution - Incentives and organisation of patent offices - IPR litigation and enforcement - University patenting - Patents in new technological fields - The governance of IPR systems - The impact of IPR on competition and innovation - The new...

The symposium will bring together researchers applying stochastic dynamic models in finance and/or economics. Relevant subject areas include, but are not limited to: asset pricing, consumption and portfolio choice, credit risk, real options, economic growth under uncertainty, monetary theory,...

Topics: All topics associated with macroeconomics are welcome including “standard” macroeconomic analysis (real and monetary business cycles, labor markets, growth etc.) and issues such as public finance, human capital accumulation, firm dynamics, asset pricing, heterogeneous agents, income...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together young and established researchers with an interest in political economy and public choice. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical.

Topics: - Applications of e-Government - Challenges to e-Government - The e-Voting issue - e-Democracy - Measuring e-Government/Economics of e-Government - Legal, agency, trust and governance issues in e-Government

The parallel paper sessions will be organized around the following themes: A. Opportunity Recognition and Development B: Distributed Innovation and Search for Knowledge and Solutions C: Mobility - Labor, Capital, Knowledge D: Emergence and Growth of Markets and Industries E. Technological Change...

The aim of these workshops is to build a broader understanding of new forms of innovation and analyse the key challenges posed to companies and policy makers by the emergence of new forms of innovation. The outcomes of the workshops will contribute to the development of the OECD Innovation...

The conference is open for all PhD students working within the broad field of economics and management of innovation and organizational change. We invite papers aiming at enhancing our understanding of the dynamics of technological, structural and institutional change at the level of firms,...