Conference
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Call for papers
Innovation and Social Development in the Knowledge-Based Economy/Society
Venue: IUC - INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE DUBROVNIK
Don Frana Bulica 4, HR-20000 Dubrovnik, CROATIA, Tel. 385 20 413-626, iuc@iuc.hr
Date of Event: 7-9 May 2004.
Conference Directors: Richard Blandy, University of South Australia, Australia
Jasminka Lanjak, University of Zagreb, Croatia
eljka porer, University of South Australia, Australia
Conference Description
The conference will focus generally on the role of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and society and its consequences at the global, regional and local levels.
Creation and dissemination of new knowledge, its commercialisation and human capital development have become crucial factors for economic development. The relationship between universities, R&D, businesses and government is becoming more closely interrelated. Universities are becoming more and more entrepreneurial. On the other hand business is placing increasing emphasis on educating and training its labour force and conducting its own research and development. The third partner in this relationship is government, and the resulting triangle has been described as a triple helix model, where all three institutions reinforce each other in effort to promote knowledge and innovation and to stimulate economic growth.
This new triangle of interactive actors presents a theoretical framework of modernization that introduces many new challenges to both the developed and developing worlds, like the problems of managing new types of technological change, especially their outcomes in a social context. The conference will focus on these issues in perspectives, on different "catching-up" processes in developing societies, as well as on the analysis of different models in developed societies.
Paper Submissions
Please express your interest by sending registration form by - February 20. 2004.
March 20. 2004. - submission of abstract
May 1. 2004. - submission of complete paper
Guidelines for Abstracts
in Word (preferred) or PDF format
up to 500 words long,
contain information about the author (name including title, institution(s), address (both postal and e-mail, telephone, and fax)
Guidelines for Papers
be provided as a Word file
include abstract, key words
Harvard style references
include information about the author in the left-hand corner of the first page
Contact Persons
Jasminka Lanjak
University of Zagreb, Rudarsko-geoloko-naftni fakultet,
Pierottijeva 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone:+385-1-4605-155
E-mail: jlaznjak@rgn.hr
eljka porer
School of International Business, University of South Australia,
City West Campus, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Phone: +61 8-8302-0735, Fax: +61-8-8302-0512
E-mail: zeljka.sporer@unisa.edu.au
Accommodation
A number of hotels are located in the vicinity of the venue.
Hotel Argentina sale@hoteli-argentina.hr
Hotel Bellevue sale@hotel-bellevue.hr
Hotel Excelsior hotel-excelsior@du.tel.ht
Hotel Komodor hoteli-maestral@du.tel.hr
Hotel Lero hotel-lero@du.tel.hr
Hotel Petka hotel-petka@du.hinet.hr
Please make reservation directly to the hotel and indicate that you are to participate in IUC activities. Additional information is available from the www.croatia.hr
Registration
There is no conference fee. The Centre for Innovation and Development, University of South Australia, will meet all Inter University Centre fees.
Please fill out the attached application form and send it to one of the contact persons
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