The objective is to provide an arena for researchers to discuss new and ongoing research, identify research gaps and suggest new research agendas on systems of higher education, research and knowledge; with a view to forging closer links between the research communities and UNESCO in these fields.

Both theoretical and applied contributions to environmental and natural resources economics and to economic growth literature are welcome, especially if their focus is on one of the following subfields: - Energy, - Preferences, - Normative aspects of sustainable development, - Health and...

The conference will favour theoretical contributions, but also welcomes original applied studies showing explicit links with the analysis of sustainable development. All geographical areas are eligible: North and south, urban and rural, coastal and maritime, are all considered.

World Ethanol provides an exceptional opportunity to network with influential executives from all sectors - producers, traders, equipment suppliers, oil companies, shipping and logistics specialists, biotechnology companies and buyers. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site...

The Europe INNOVA Conference 2008 will focus on accelerating innovation in Europe and how to optimise knowledge transfer, strengthening industry's innovation capacity through strategic partnerships and supporting innovative entrepreneurs. The conference will analyse and discuss policy...

Using terminology from insurance and finance the organizers would like to concentrate on the following aspects: - Risk sensitive portfolio - Risk measures and management - Ruin probability and operational risk - Volatility risk - Default risk - Crash modelling - Innovative financial...

The theme for this conference is therefore making businesses, people and systems interoperable and adaptive in highly interconnected and changing contexts. Research contributions for the conference will be on aspects and future directions in business informatics research with respect to the...

The purpose of the conference is to showcase leading-edge research into the role of emotion in organizational settings. Papers and symposia are invited on any topic of relevance to the study of emotions at work, including the determinants of emotion; the nature and description of emotion;...

The subject of the conference is "Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in a Global Economy." The conference has thus two broad objectives. First, to take stock of the recent contributions on the knowledge economy and identify the building blocks of national and European Strategies to...

Submissions from academics, consultants and managers on Open Innovation (OI) and other innovation-related topics are strongly encouraged and should focus on the following (note there will also be a French language track on the same topics): Commercialising and financing innovation; Culture,...