Warsaw, September 10, 2018

An international conference organized by the World Economy Research Institute, Collegium of World Economy at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

Please note that we are extending the deadline for abstract submission until 20 VII and the date for notifications on acceptance to July 27, 2018

RATIONALE:
Innovation is regarded as a core of the Europe 2020 strategy. The main objective of the Innovation Union is to strengthen the European innovative potential. After eight years of the implementation it is interesting to discuss where Europe is regarding innovation performance and to analyze the impact in terms of competitiveness, growth or employment. Therefore, the main objective of this conference is to evaluate the effects of the EU policy instruments that promote Innovation Union in Europe, and in particular, stronger European dimension of R&D base.

The conference will be a forum to present research results of the Horizon 2020 project on Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union (I3U) (H2020-INSO-2014, Grant Agreement: 645884). We invite you to visit the webpage of the project: http://www.i3u-innovationunion.eu

We invite papers related to the following topics:

• Innovation; its determinants and its dynamics
• Innovation Union
• Role of innovation in economic growth
• Innovation policy; good practices and impact

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit abstracts electronically (up to 250 words in MS Word or PDF format) to: https://systemcoffee.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=793  
Submitted abstracts should (on top of the page) contain: the title, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), address(es), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).
Papers accepted in the review process will be published as articles in the International Journal of Management and Economics.

KEY DATES:
Deadline for abstract submissions is July 20, 2018.
Notifications on acceptance will be sent to the authors by July 27, 2018.
Papers accepted for conference presentation should be submitted in full by August 20, 2018.
Registration deadline: September 5, 2018.

Conference is free of charge.

REGISTRATION
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CONTACT
World Economy Research Institute, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Al. Niepodległości 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland
tel. +48 22 5649370, email: weri@sgh.waw.pl