Notification of acceptance:

15 March 2012

Registration:

starting in January 2012

Conference website:

www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org 

The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI is organizing the 2^nd biennial conference of the Eu-SPRI Forum. 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

See full call text (and download it as a PDF) here: http://eu-spri-conference-2012.org/conf-org/content/call.php

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

New patterns, drivers and models of innovation

Policy instruments and their coordination

Governance of transformative change

New methods of policy analysis

Deadline and Requirements

Please submit your extended abstracts by January 31^st, 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 15^th, 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 31^st, 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 15^th, 2012.

Abstract Submission and Registration

Please send your abstracts for presentations and proposals for the elevator pitch to the organizers at contact@eu-spri-conference-2012.org.

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

Local Organizing Committee

Stephanie Daimer

Knut Koschatzky

Ralf Lindner

Thomas Reiss

Christine Schaedel

Oliver Som

Philine Warnke

More information

Please see the conference website: www.eu-spri-conference-2012.org  and contact us at contact@eu-spri-conference-2012.org