9th Conference on Model-based Evidence on Innovation and DEvelopment (MEIDE)

CALL FOR PAPERS

16-17 June 2016
Moscow, Russia

The 9th Conference on Model-based Evidence on Innovation and DEvelopment (MEIDE) will be held on 16-17 June 2016 in Moscow, Russia. The conference will gather researchers from around the world to discuss various aspects of innovation and its relation to economic development. We have slightly changed the title of the conference to stress the particular aspects of this year’s edition, namely the topics of innovation and development and the model-based evidence approach. In other words, we have enlarged the scope of the conference to include papers based on macro or industry data (see the list below for possible topics).

Priority will be given to empirical papers, but there is also room for methodological and theoretical papers as well as for case studies, so long as they address the issue of innovation and development. Here innovation is to be understood broadly as any kind of innovation linked to what firms, households, communities and governments do, or how they operate. It also includes knowledge creation, diffusion, measurement and evaluation issues. Development comprises growth but also welfare, poverty alleviation, environmental concerns and fairness in the distribution of wealth / income.

Submission:

Researchers are invited to submit their paper by 12 March 2016. Extended abstracts and incomplete papers are accepted for submission, but preference will be given to full papers. Please submit by clicking on Paper submission. Notifications of acceptance will be given no later than 25 March 2016. All accepted participants will receive an official invitation letter to apply for a visa to enter Russia. The conference will take place in the Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics located in the centre of Moscow. To minimise administrative burdens there will be no registration fees, but each participant will be responsible for his/her own travel and hotel costs, and for the conference dinner.

Selected papers from the conference will be invited for inclusion in a special issue of the bilingual (English-Russian) journal ‘Foresight and STI Governance’ (indexed in SCOPUS): http://foresight-journal.hse.ru/en/.

Local Organiser:

• Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Sponsors:

• Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics
• UNU-MERIT
• Inter-American Development Bank

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: 12 March 2016
• Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2016
• Sending paper to organisers: 9 June 2016
• 9^th MEIDE conference: 16-17 June 2016

Scientific committee:

• Diego Aboal (CINVE, Universidad ORT Uruguay and FCEA, Universidad de la República)
• Théophile Azomahou (UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University)
• Xavier Cirera (World Bank)
• Gustavo Crespi (Inter-American Development Bank)
• Fred Gault (UNU-MERIT and Tschwane University)
• Micheline Goedhuys (UNU-MERIT)
• Leonid Gokhberg (Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics)
• Norbert Janz (UNU-MERIT and FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences)
• Maty Konte (UNU-MERIT)
• Jacques Mairesse (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, ENSAE)
• Pierre Mohnen (UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University)
• Caroline Paunov (OECD)
• Vitaliy Roud (Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics)

Examples of topics:

• 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 internationalisation
• Innovation and the role of financial institutions
• Inclusive, indigenous and frugal innovation
• Innovation and international trade
• Firm learning/upgrading and exports
• Effectiveness of innovation policies
• Innovation metrics
• Non-technological innovations
• User innovations
• Migration, knowledge and development
• Policy evaluations
• Eco-innovation
• Innovation and agriculture
• Intellectual property rights
• Scientific careers and mobility
• Productivity and spillovers in scientific research
• Cooperation and scientific research networks
• Innovation and inequality
• Social innovations
• Innovation and welfare
• Determinants and impacts of high-tech entrepreneurship
• Innovation (eco)systems and firm performance
• Innovation and economic growth
• Innovation and structural change
• Market structure and innovation
• Innovative start-ups, spin-offs and spin-outs in emerging economies
• Knowledge creation and technology transfer

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