This ninth scientific conference on Innovation Patent wants mainly to discuss the analysis of Intellectual Property Policies in firms. The proposals for communication deal with first “Invention Patent”, but the organizers hope that studies on other intellectual property rights: Copyright,...

Conference Programme: 1. Ecology and Economics 2. Economic Models of Global Warming: What Scenario, What Cost? 3. Certainties, Uncertainties and What They Imply about Action 4. Round Table chaired by Robert Solow (MIT): Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go from Here?

Topics: Education and life long learning; Social cohesion; Sustainable development, and social responsibility of companies; Employment; Competence, knowledge, and human capital management; Productivity, competition, growth; Innovation: systems, models and definitions; Entrepreneurship;...

The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians has been convened by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office in its 300th Session (November 2007) to discuss and adopt international statistical standards on two topics, Child Labour and Working Time. It will also discuss...

This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of...

Papers dealing with the various issues at hand, i.e. determining the various forms of poverty, understanding the genesis of misery in capitalistic economies as well as the fashion in which misery may be produced by capitalism itself, possibly superseding in the process poverty in its previous...

The conference is open to academic works concerning emerging economies, with a special attention given to the way the dynamic paths of development interact with the Globalization of economies and to the contradictions and the new challenges it brings with it. Topics: Growth and income...

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.

This Forum provides the key platform for information and exchange on the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in Africa. Topics : Administration & management, About social security, Managing reforms, Extending coverage, Disability, Health, Employment policies,...

This interdisciplinary conference will present the new advances in the modelling of the Global Change that combines Geosciences and Economics, with a perspective view from history - given the novelty of their interrelations – and from political science – given the impact of the model outputs...