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 conference theme for the PBFEAM 2008 is "Innovation for a Sustainable Future: Visions for 2020." Each discipline will host plenary sessions involving invited papers dealing with contemporary issues relating to the 2008 conference theme.

The role of small businesses is crucial. In many economies they contribute significantly to job creation, and export of goods and services. Their importance has precipitated a growing interest by academics, researchers and policy makers to find ways to create resilient, viable and sustainable...

The Organizing Committee would like to encourage submissions (with either paper or abstract as a pdf attachment) from scholars in all areas of macroeconomics with significant theoretical content.

Topics: Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation; Entrepreneurship theory and practice; Entrepreneurship Education; GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor); Gender issues in entrepreneurship; Global issues; Growth and leadership; Human capital; Indigenous entrepreneurship; Networks and policy;...