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DRUID17
New York, USA, June 12-14, 2017
Second Call for Papers
Submission deadline February 28, 2017
Since 1996, DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change. DRUID and NYC Stern are proud to invite senior and junior scholars to participate and contribute with a paper to DRUID17, hosted by NYC Stern in New York. Presenting distinguished plenary speakers, a range of parallel paper sessions, and a highly attractive social program, the conference aims at mapping theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, contributing novel insights, and help identifying scholarly positions, divisions, and common grounds in current scientific controversies within the field.
Conference highlights
Plenary speakers at DRUID17 include Oliver Alexy, Rich Bettis, John Cantwell, Edward Glaeser, Martin Kilduff, Anita McGahan, Rita Gunther McGrath, Ram Mudambi, Michael Storper, and Andrew Van de Ven. More speakers will be announced.
DRUID Debates with outstanding scholars exchanging opinions in a heated and entertaining setting, and the conference audience opposing or supporting their standpoints. DRUID17 debates challenge practitioner-targeted research and journals’ requirement of theoretical-cum-empirical contributions.
A special DRUID Topical Plenary on deglobalisation and innovation, with prominent scholars discussing with the audience how current policy trends towards protectionism may impact innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics.
Paper sessions presenting 200 peer reviewed papers with previously unpublished research, all with engaged session chairs and carefully appointed discussants. DRUID17 invites paper submissions on innovation, entrepreneurship and other aspects of structural, institutional and geographic change, such as
• Open innovation, search strategies and knowledge sourcing
• Markets for technology and knowledge labor
• Entrepreneurship and growth
• Creativity, R&D management and organizational behavior
• Scientific knowledge production and university-industry interaction
• Local, regional and global geographies of innovation, innovation networks and connectedness
• Institutional, social and frugal innovation and entrepreneurship
• Eco-innovation, sustainability, inequality and inclusion
Papers with new, mixed, or multi-disciplinary theoretical approaches or novel methods that will benefit from the open-ended discussions at DRUID are particularly invited.
Best paper awards. Accepted papers exclusively authored or co-authored by doctoral students will be considered for the Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper while all papers accepted for the conference will be considered for the DRUID Best Paper Award.?
The grand DRUID Dinner is known for its excellent food and high fun factor. This year we will wine and dine in style in the heart of Tribeca enjoying 360 degrees view of Manhattan and the Hudson river.
DRUID Discoveries excursions will make the most out of our conference location in New York’s Village and invite participants on walks through the neighborhood, perhaps revealing a local secret or two.
DRUID Decadence. A DRUID institution, the afterparty will find DRUIDs dining and dancing the night away in true New Yorker style at The Park in the Meatpacking District.
PDWs
Professional development workshops (PDWs) are focused, user driven sessions offering a way of sharing ideas, knowledge and expertise with peers in the DRUID community and develop new ideas and projects. PDWs at DRUID17 take place 9.00-12.00 on June 12, 2017. All participants to DRUID17 can propose a PDW focused on a specific research subfield and/or targeting a specific group, e.g. PhD students, junior faculty, empiricists, theorists, etc. Proposals must contain 1) a max. 2 page description of the activity planned for the workshop; 2) a tentative program with a duration of up to 3 hours; 3) the maximum number of participants for the workshop (rooms are available for 20 up to 75 participants); and 4) a list of confirmed speakers; 5) a brief CV of key applicant(s) and speakers. Please send proposals to at pdw17@druid.dk no later than February 28, 2017. Applicants will be notified of the decision by March 20, 2017, and all accepted PDWs will be advertised and included in the DRUID17 program. Speakers and participants must register for the DRUID17 conference.
Paper submissions and deadlines
DRUID17 provides an opportunity to take stock of our field and jointly to advance the research frontier. Thus, only previously unpublished research is eligible for presentation and the conference warmly invites research with new, mixed, and multi-disciplinary theoretical approaches and novel methods. Scholars who wish to present their research at the conference must upload a full paper (in PDF, anonymized) not exceeding 12,000 words (including notes, tables, appendices, list of references, etc.) through the website www.druid.dk no later than February 28, 2017 (before midnight at the scholar’s location). 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. Details are available under Terms and Conditions on the website.
All submissions undergo double-blinded reviews by at least two independent reviewers with respect to novelty, academic quality and the paper's relation to the themes of the conference. Decisions of paper acceptance are given April 20, 2017. 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/posters must pay the conference fee before May 1, 2017, or their paper/poster will automatically be removed from the conference program and website. Revised versions of accepted papers/posters may be uploaded until June 1, 2017. The final conference program will be available June 2, 2017.
Authors may submit more than one paper but each conference participant will only be allowed to present one paper. Co-authored papers may be presented by any of the participating co-authors.
Registration
The DRUID website www.druid.dk is open for registration from December 1, 2016. Besides registration, the conference fee includes the DRUID conference dinner, lunches on June 13 and 14, and coffee and snacks/fruit during breaks all days. Generous sponsors have enabled an early-bird conference fee (applicable until May 1, 2017) of 625 USD (approx. 585 EUR). After May 1, 2016, the latecomer conference fee will be 750 USD (approx. 700 EUR). There is a permanent 50% discount for doctoral students.
The website will remain open for payment of the conference fee until June 10, 2017. However, authors of accepted papers and posters must pay the fee before May 1, 2017, for their paper or poster to be included in the conference program.
Information in brief
Website and registration: www.druid.dk
Contact: DRUID17@druid.dk
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Mailing list: To subscribe, email DRUID17@druid.dk with the word "Subscribe" in the subject field
