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 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.

The aim of the conference is to compile innovative current research from resource, energy and environmental economics and dynamic economic theory. Topics: - environmental economics - resource economics - energy economics - economic dynamics - growth theory

Topics: - Stochastics and climatology - Stochastic partial differential equations - Random fields - Stochastic analysis and finance - Energy, climate and finance

Topic: "The Economics of Agriculture as Source and Victim of Environmental and Climate Change" The Review Committee cordially invites contributions dealing with environment-related subjects, with the impact of agricultural production on greenhouse gas emissions and with the effect of global...