Acknowledgement of the knowledge economy leads to a conclusion that the route to economic prosperity assigns prime relevance to continuous learning. As a consequence, issues of knowledge creation, use and transfer along with the development of innovation competencies have moved to the forefront...

The main theme of the conference will be "War in the history of economic thought: the economists and the question of war". At the very time when many countries in the world are reflecting on the lessons of the World Wars on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WWI in 1914...