hi Franz, thanks for the alert! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Franz Nahrada <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:14 PM Subject: Fwd: VB: Eu-Spri-Conference June 12th/13th 2012 To: [email protected], [email protected] ** ** This is another opportunity to present partner state and commons concept. but seems a bit academically biased. maybe opportunities for our young fellows.... any contact to the organizers? Franz *----- Original Message -----* Eu-SPRI Conference 2012: Call for Abstracts “Towards Transformative Governance? Responses to mission-oriented innovation policy paradigms” 12/13 June 2012 in Karlsruhe, Germany Submission deadline: 31 January 2012 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2012 Registration: starting in January 2012 Conference website with full call text (downloadable as a PDF): www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI is organizing the 2nd biennial conference of the Eu-SPRI Forum ( http://www.euspri-forum.eu/). Fraunhofer ISI is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012 and the conference will be a major part of the anniversary celebrations. The conference will offer a keynote speech, parallel thematic sessions, an Elevator Pitch Contest for young researchers, a roundtable discussion, the ISI anniversary dinner at Karlsruhe Palace (Schloss) and many opportunities for informal exchange. Call for Abstracts The Lund Declaration, which was handed to the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union by 400 prominent researchers and politicians in 2009, states that "European research must focus on the Grand Challenges of our time moving beyond current rigid thematic approaches. This calls for a new deal among European institutions and Member States, in which European and national instruments are well aligned and cooperation builds on transparency and trust." The declaration thus asks EU institutions to play a crucial role in bringing the relevant public and private actors together, and helping to build more cooperation and trust in order to address the overarching policy objectives. This declaration has taken up and reinforced a development in the past few years in which governments and the European Union have adopted a new strategic rhetoric for their research and innovation policy priorities which addresses the major societal challenges of our time. This is evolving into the third major policy rationale besides economic growth and competitiveness. It is not yet clear whether and how any transformative effects from this new mission-oriented approach can already be identified. The conference aims to attract papers that discuss possible transformative effects at different levels, i.e. on the actors performing research, innovation processes, scientific fields and technological sectors, the institutional funding and research landscape, society, the demand and user/beneficiary side, research and innovation policy and financing, and national and European political framework conditions. It also invites contributions that critically discuss methodological issues, conceptual developments and novel normative challenges around innovation and R&D policy triggered by the – alleged – mission oriented turn. This conference will bring together leading and up and coming researchers across a range of social science disciplines and provide an open forum to promote the emerging academic discussion about new developments in research and innovation policy and their effects on knowledge production, innovation and grand challenges at different levels. The conference welcomes papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and traditions, including policy studies, political science, sociology, science and technology studies, public administration, the economics of science and innovation, research management, entrepreneurship, technology assessment and evaluation studies. The organizers encourage contributions that conceptually and/or empirically advance the topic. Specific Themes 1. New patterns, drivers and models of innovation 2. Policy instruments and their coordination 3. Governance of transformative change 4. New methods of policy analysis Deadline and Requirements Please *submit your extended abstracts* by January 31st, 2012. It should include your name(s), affiliation(s) with full contact details, up to five keywords and the sub-theme it is related to. The extended abstract should have 1,000-1,500 words and clearly refer in its structure to (1) the motivation, (2) approach, (3) (expected) results, and (4) conclusion and/or (policy) implications of the work. Please submit your document in DOC/DOCX format.
From among the conference presentations, a selected number will be invited to publish full papers afterwards in a journal special issue or conference book.
Notification of accepted presentations will be sent out by March 15th, 2012. Elevator Pitch Contest for young Researchers Doctoral students and young researchers are invited to submit proposals for an Elevator Pitch Contest. An 'elevator pitch' is a short speech used to quickly and simply engage your audience for your research idea. It reflects the idea that it should not take longer than an elevator ride to deliver a convincing summary of your project (planned or in progress). At the conference, you will have exactly 60 seconds for your pitch, and there will be an audience prize for the winner of the contest. *Applicants for the Elevator Pitch* *Contest* will please submit their ideas by January 31st, 2012. Please submit a short abstract of not more than 200 words of the idea together with your name, affiliation and contact details, and give an additional description of the context of the research project or idea. Please submit also a short bio and indicate which media (PPT, audio, video, … ) you would like to use for your elevator pitch, if at all. Notification of accepted elevator pitches will be sent out by March 15th, 2012. Abstract Submission and Registration Please send your abstracts for presentations and proposals for the elevator pitch to the organizers at [email protected]. Registration for the conference (as presenter and as participant) will be open from early 2012. Please visit the conference homepage at www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org for more information. Here you will also find travel and hotel information. Conference Fees The fee for the conference is € 150. This includes the delegate pack, and refreshments and meals throughout the event, including the dinner event at Karlsruhe Palace (Schloss). The reduced rate for participants from Eu-SPRI Forum member institutions and for students is € 100 (student ID is necessary). Scientific Committee • Andrea Bonnacorsi – University of Pisa • Susanna Borras – Copenhagen Business School • Susan Cozzens – School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology • Jakob Edler – Manchester Institute of Innovation Resarch, MBS; University of Manchester • Charles Edquist – CIRCLE, University of Lund • Pierre-Benoit Joly – Université Paris-Est, Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société (IFRIS) • Jonathan Koehler- Fraunhofer ISI Karlsruhe • Stefan Kuhlmann – University of Twente, Institute of Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) • Philippe Laredo – Université Paris-Est and University of Manchester • Maria Paloma Sanchez – Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM-Accenture Chair on Economics and Management of Innovation) • Fred Steward – PSI, University of Westminster London • Matthias Weber, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna *Looking forward to welcoming you in Karlsruhe!* The Local Organizing Committee: Stephanie Daimer Knut Koschatzky Ralf Lindner Thomas Reiss Christine Schaedel Oliver Som Philine Warnke Please see the conference website: www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org and contact us at [email protected] Visit Eu-SPRI Forum at http://www.euspri-forum.eu/<http://www.euspri-forum.eu/> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens