Conference tracks: - Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development: policy and practice. - Agricultural innovation systems and development of rural areas. - Strengthening national, regional and local innovation systems: the role of key actors. - Creative industries, smart cities...

The KAPA aims to promote inclusive society, sustainable development, and administrative responsibility. The current environment surrounding the field of public administration underscores the value of bringing together researchers and practitioners with a wide range of perspectives to engage the...

The purpose of the Society is to promote the advancement of knowledge in social choice and welfare economics, broadly defined, and to facilitate communication among researchers from numerous disciplines working on social choice and welfare economics.

The RC19 annual conference brings together international scholars in the fields of comparative welfare state and social policy studies, encompassing a range of disciplines such as sociology, social policy, political science, and economics. Conference theme: Expansion and Retrenchment in Social...

This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in the Asia-Pacific region. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers...

The Theme: 'Production, Reproduction, Protection in the Welfare State' The 2011 RC19 meeting brings together leading scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies from different parts of the world and encompassing a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy and...

The 2nd World conference will bring together those interested in applying strategic communications, marketing and behaviour change methodology to solve key social challenges. Focus will be on the policy implications for the emerging evidence base for effective social program design and what this...

The theme of the SASE 2008 meeting is suggested by Karl Polanyis The Great Transformation. Polanyi interprets the history of industrial society in the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of a pendulum-like "double movement." One side of that movement is toward free and flexible markets that...

The central theme of Regional Development and Regeneration has been the central area of investigation for the PENR3L Project and is also one of the pivotal strands of the PASCAL Observatory. It is also been a key area of work for the OECD/IMHE, who are making contributions to this event based on...