Fifth Conference on Micro Evidence on Innovation in Developing Economies (MEIDE)
San José, Costa Rica
June 27-28, 2011
Fundación Omar Dengo
Ministry of Science and Technology (MICIT)
Inter-American Development Bank
UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
The Fundación Omar Dengo, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Costa Rica, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) announce that the Fifth Conference on Micro Evidence on Innovation and Development (MEIDE) will be held on June 27-28, 2011 in San José, Costa Rica.
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from around the world to discuss the importance of innovation for economic growth and development. Priority will be given to empirical studies that are devoted to developing countries and based on micro data, such as innovation surveys, R&D surveys, household surveys, patents, publications, or research grants. There is also room for methodological and theoretical papers and for evidence from case studies.
This year a few sessions will be devoted to the theme “innovation and employment” in collaboration with a project lead by the Inter-American Development Bank.
Examples of topics that could be covered:
• Innovation, productivity and firm performance
• Innovation, education, health, human capital, and social capital
• Innovation in universities and public institutions
• Technology adoption and diffusion
• Innovation and employment
• Innovation and internationalization
• Innovation and the role of financial institutions
• Financial innovations
• Innovation and international trade
• International comparisons of innovation performance
• Effectiveness of innovation policies
• Innovation metrics
• Non-Technological Innovation
• Demand-lead innovations and innovation policies
• User innovations
Sponsors:
Fundación Omar Dengo
Ministry of Science and Technology (MICIT)
Inter-American Development Bank
UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
Venue:
Fundación Omar Dengo
Practical information
A visa may be required for some of the participants.
Local organizers: Fundación Omar Dengo and MICIT
Scientific committee: Gustavo Crespi (IDB), Micheline Goedhuys (UNU-MERIT), Norbert Janz (UNU-MERIT), Alessandro Maffioli (IDB), Jacques Mairesse (UNU-MERIT), Pierre Mohnen (UNU-MERIT), Ricardo Monge (CAATEC), Jeffrey Orozco (CINPE), Ezequiel Tacsir (IDB)
Submission: Researchers are invited to submit a paper by March 1, 2011. Extended abstracts and incomplete papers will also be accepted for submission, but preference will be given to full papers. Please submit using this submission form. If your proposal is accepted, a formal invitation form will be sent to you for application of visas to Costa Rica, upon request.
Important dates
Submission deadline: March 7, 2011
Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2011
Sending paper to organizers: June 20, 2011
MEIDE 5 conference: June 27-28, 2011
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