www.druid.dk/DRUID2013
DRUID - a historic acronym for the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics - has allegedly become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change
Conference highlights
- Decide: Has Systems of Innovation research lost its value? Or is it stronger than ever? You can have your say in the plenary debate where famed debaters will lay out the positions. And you will, together with the rest of the conference, be asked to oppose or support the motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that the systems of innovation approach is no longer a promising line of research"
- Engage with the research frontier: 200 peer reviewed papers - all with previous unpublished research - will be selected for presentation in targeted chaired sessions. Two appointed discussants will provide assessments and initiate the debate of each paper.
- Enjoy three top-end novel keynotes including Wes Cohen's seminal: Reflections on Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of the Economics of Innovative Activity and Performance"
- Reflect on how Scientific Fraud (including plagiarism) might be undermining serious research. A number of spectacular and disturbing cases have recently emerged also in social science and some are still unfolding. Are we as a scientific community effective in self-policing or are much stronger measures needed? These crucial issues will dealt with in a plenary debate where your opinion will be included. The motion to be voted on before and after the debate is this: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that the academic system is effective at self-policing, so that fraud and other research misconduct is kept to a minimum and research integrity is maintained"
- Network and make new friends from all parts of the globe at the build-in excursions or during the Catalonia quality meals and breaks
- Indicate your position on whether conventional measures of financial performance really lead to poor strategic decisions about innovative projects. This is what the initial high-profile debate will be discussing
and finally
- Succumb to the magnificent Grand Celebration Dinner and the fabulous Farewell Beach Party.
The final Plenary Program can be found here: http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/infosite/file/2013%20society/DRUID2013_PLENARY_program_21Jan2013%20.pdf
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Conference aim and background
DRUID - an acronym for the Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics - has since 1995 organized what has over the years allegedly become among the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the related dynamics of technical, structural, institutional and geographical change.
The DRUID Society is now proud to invite senior and junior scholars to participate and contribute with a paper to this 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013 - co-organized with and hosted by ESADE, Barcelona. The conference intends to map theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, contribute with novel insights, clarify and develop intellectual positions and help identify common grounds and lines of division in selected current scientific controversies within the field.
Distinguished plenary presenters include, among others:
Dan Breznitz (Georgia Tech)
Mary Benner (University of Minnesota)
Diana Burton (Cornell University)
Wesley M. Cohen (Duke University)
Maryann Feldman (University of North Carolina)
Jeff Furman (Boston University)
Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Rebecca Henderson (Harvard Business School)
Martin Kenney (University of California, Davis)
Bruce Kogut (Columbia University)
Julia I. Lane (American Institutes for Research)
Ben Martin (Sussex University)
Anita McGahan (Rotman Business School)
Ammon Salter (Imperial College London) and
Sidney Winther (Wharton Business School)
Tracks
At DRUID2013 parallel paper tracks containing accepted submissions will be organized around the following broad themes:
A. Market Formation and Entrepreneurship
B. Strategy, Organizational Behavior & Innovation
C. Theory and Empirics of the Firm
D. Projects, Networks, Crowd-Sourcing and Knowledge
E. IPR: Effects and Challenges
F. University - Firm Interaction and Governance
G. Eco-Innovations
H. Innovation and Entrepreneurship under the Financial Crisis
I. Experimentation, Creativity and Organization
J. Institutional Dynamics, Patterns and Effects
K. Labor, Capital, Mobility
L. Clusters, Regions and Growth
M. Systems of Innovation
N. Policy and Public-Private Interaction
O. Economic Development, Growth and Innovation
P. Scientific Fraud, Plagiarism and other Intellectual Misconduct
Paper submission
Scholars who wish to present their research at the conference must upload a full paper (in PDF) not exceeding 10,000 words (including notes, tables, appendices, list of references, etc.) through the conference website www.druid.dk/DRUID2013 no later than February 28, 2013. Only novel and previously unpublished research is eligible for presentation and the name and affiliation of the author or authors must be removed throughout the paper before submitting it for review. Submission of a paper grants permission to DRUID to include it in the conference material and to place it on the relevant websites. DRUID reserves the right to use available software to control for plagiarism and to take appropriate action in severe cases.
All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers working independently of each other. The reviewers will consider the novelty, academic quality and the paper's relation to the theme of the conference. The decision of paper acceptance will be given before April 20, 2013. No review or comments will be offered to the author or authors to supplement the decision. Papers not accepted for oral presentation at the conference may be accepted for presentation in a poster session. Authors of accepted papers must pay the conference fee before May 1, or their paper will automatically be removed and will NOT be included in the conference program for oral presentation.
Revised versions of accepted papers or posters may be uploaded until June 1, 2013.
Authors may submit more than one paper but each participant will only be allowed to present one paper during the conference. Co-authored papers may be presented by any of the participating co-authors. We expect submissions to be original scholarship and the conference as a whole to provide an opportunity to take stock of the field and advance the research frontier within our field.
DRUID Best Paper Awards
Accepted papers exclusively authored or co-authored by doctoral students will be considered for the DRUID Young Scholar Paper Award while all papers accepted for the conference will be considered for the DRUID Best Paper Award.
Registration for the conference
The conference website: www.druid.dk/DRUID2013 is open for registration and payment of the conference fee until June 10. However, authors of accepted papers must pay the fee before May 1 for their paper to be included in the conference program.
Additional generous sponsors have enabled a further reduction of the early-bird conference fee - applicable until May 1 - for academic scholars to 500 EURO (or app. 650 USD) including membership of the DRUID Society together with a 1-year subscription of our associated journal Industry and Innovation (postal delivery). Beside registration the conference fee include the grand conference dinner on June 18, lunch on June 17, 18 and 19, coffee and snacks/fruit during breaks all days. After May 1 the latecomer total fee for academic scholars will increase to 600 EURO (or app. 790 USD). Doctoral students can always register with a 50% discount.
Venue
ESADE - The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas - is a world leading business school associated with the Ramon Llull University. DRUID2013 will be hosted on the down-town campus at Pedralbes <http://www.esade.edu/web/eng/about-esade/campus/barcelona> 15 minutes from the airport or city center.
Farewell party - not to be missed.
A breath-taking beach location is booked for the DRUID2013 farewell party on June 19. Fine food and the most amazing drinks to be enjoyed under the palm trees on the Mediterranean seaside while the sun sets.
Timetable
Deadline for full paper submission: February 28, 2013 (before midnight at your location)
Decision of paper acceptance: April 15, 2013
Deadline for author registration: May 1, 2013
Registration deadline at early-bird rates: May 1, 2013 (before midnight at your location)
Deadline for revised versions of accepted papers: June 1, 2013
Final program available: June 2, 2013
Deadline for conference registration (for participants not in the program): June 10, 2013
Conference Organizers
Esteve Almirall, Markus Becker, Christoph Grimpe, Nadine Roijakkers, Peter Maskell (Chair), Marion Pötz, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Jonathan Wareham.
Scientific Advisory Committee
Anita McGahan (Chairman), Gautam Ahuja, Mark Dodgson, Maryann Feldman, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardella, Meric Gertler, Steven Klepper, Aija Leiponen, Daniel A. Levinthal, Francesco Lissoni, Maureen McKelvey, Ammon Salter, Olav Sorenson, Bart Vespagen, and Sidney Winter
DRUID
DRUID's history, membership, management and activities - including videos of previous debates and links to the 2000+ novel papers presented at the previous 34 conferences organized by the DRUID society (in June) or the DRUID Academy (in January each year) - is available through the DRUID website: www.druid.dk. DRUID is sponsored by Aalborg University, Copenhagen Business School and University of Southern Denmark
Next year and beyond
Send us a brief message if you wish to suggest themes, debates, tracks, speakers or to help organize a session or a track - or even to consider hosting a future conference. Write ENGAGE in the subject field. All ideas and suggestions are appreciated.
E-Mail: DRUID2013@druid.dk
Website: www.druid.dk/DRUID2013