The goal of the conference is to gather researchers working on competitiveness to focus on the French case. The Banque de France has been participated in several initiatives aiming to develop new competitiveness indicators, including a joint work with the World Bank and the active participation...

Systems innovation is a horizontal policy approach that mobilises technology, market mechanisms, regulations and social innovations to solve complex societal problems in a set of interacting or interdependent components. They are characterised by disrupting or complementary types of knowledge...

Topics: - Does competition kill or create jobs? The links and drivers between competition and employment - Competition law and policy in Kazakhstan - The impact of disruptive innovations on competition law enforcement - Serial offenders: Why do some industries seem prone to endemic collusion?

The theme is ‘Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management’, reflecting the key challenges for future in manufacturing and service sector with the particular goal to assess the real costs involved in many supply chains that today still remain invisible and therefore prohibit the...

Sessions and covered topics: International macroeconomics: - Exchange rates (nominal and real exchange rates, equilibrium exchange rates), exchange-rate policies and exchange-rate regimes; - Economic growth, business cycles and economic policies; - Transmission of commodity price shocks; -...

Price formation in marketing channels is of considerable interest for those involved in these channels but also for public authorities. For instance, farmers frequently protest against intermediaries, and, more specifically, against retailers. They often accuse those players of not (or...

F.O. Licht’s World Ethanol annual conference is the premier event for the global ethanol industry. World Ethanol provides an exceptional opportunity to network with influential executives from all sectors - producers, traders, equipment suppliers, oil companies, shipping and logistics...

Featuring assessments of consumption trends in major markets including USA, Europe and Russia, reports on the major juice raw material markets, emerging markets around the world and key strategic issues for the industry, World Juice 2009 gives a complete commercial picture of the sector in just...

At Angers, there will be a number of Research Sessions embedded within the conference programme which together, comprise the Research Conference. During each Session there will be a number of different Research Panels; as these panels will be held in parallel you will need to pick and choose...

Conference topics: A. Heterodox Approaches of Sustainable Development B. International institutions and sustainable development C. Social sustainability : content and relevance D. Considering the environmental dimension