The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...

The following topics and themes have been established as a framework for the conference. Research and Policy: - Entrepreneurial finance - E-commerce and technology - Family business - Franchising - Research methodologies and techniques - Globalisation & trade - Rural and regional...

Rice Trade Outlook 2006 will provide a global rice market overview with spotlights on Europe , Africa and the Middle East . The conference, now in its third year, will gather together leaders and experts from the world’s rice industry. Take this unique opportunity to network with business...

The objective of the workshop is to address theoretical and empirical research in productivity and efficiency measurement in economics, agricultural economics, management science, op-erations research and related fields. Papers on the theory of productivity and efficiency meas-urement, as well...

The Fair Trade and Sustainable Development colloquium aims to explore the contributions and limits of Fair Trade from the perspective of the social, economic and environmental goals of sustainable development. The goal of the conference is to continue the analysis begun at the first...

F.O. Licht’s 9 th European Sugar Conference will give you the chance to hear first-hand information on the impact that EU sugar reform will have within Europe , its trading partners and the world’s major producing regions. The conference is also a unique opportunity to discuss with policy...

Proposals for presentations, panel symposia, and teaching and research workshops are invited in the following eighteen broad subject categories. Related topics will also be considered. Proposals with a special focus on Emerging Economies are especially encouraged. SUBJECT CODE [01] Management...

On the basis of the results of a comparative research project on “Shipbuilding in Europe” carried out by the Institute Labour and Economy/University of Bremen, the conference will focus on the future perspectives of European shipbuilding. Experts from shipyards, unions, associations and...

Lecture Topics: Asset prices and macroeconomics, identification with sign restrictions, new open economy macroeconomic models, exchange rates in dynamic general equilibrium models, models of exchange rate pass-through, open economy models of the current account

The DRUID Summer Conference 2006 intends to map theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, further contribute with novel insights and stimulate civilized controversies in industrial dynamics. The conference's parallel paper sessions will be organized around nine themes: A: Networks and...