Call for papers: The 5th International Conference on Innovation and Management (ICIM2008)

ICIM2008 will highlight current thinking and future trends in management of innovation, knowledge economy and emerging business models. Representatives from a large number of countries will attend the event. The conference format includes plenary and parallel sessions with both academic and practitioner presentations. In addition, the conference will provide networking opportunities together with a taste of local culture.

Main Topics:

• Key (converging) technologies in the 21st century (nano-, bio-, ICT technology)
• Technological innovation, product innovation and industrial innovation
• Regional innovation systems, clusters and industrial networks
• Organizational innovation
• Managing collaborative innovation
• Financing and commercializing innovation
• Innovation in services, logistics and supply-chain management
• Intellectual property and knowledge management
• Human resource management issues in innovation
• Innovation and management issues within multinational corporations
• Innovation for low-income markets and social innovation
• Innovation for sustainable development

Call for Papers: Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities, April 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The 2009 OLKC conference is the fourth in an annual series which unites the OLK and OKLC communities. In building on the achievements of these previous events, OLKC is the leading international conference for researchers in the fields of organizational knowledge and learning. The conference is international in scope and inclusive of the wide range of intellectual perspectives, which have helped to make the field of organizational knowledge and learning one of the most vibrant areas for contemporary research and debate. The 2009 OLKC conference therefore welcomes theoretical, empirical and combined theoretical & empirical contributions. The OLKC 2009 conference will be conducted by the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Deadlines

• Submission deadline of 800 word abstract: 15 October 2008

• Authors will be advised on their papers status: December 2008

• Full papers of 5,000 to 7,000 words due: 15 March 2009