CFP: Innovation Networks (IJFIP)

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International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy  (IJFIP)
Call For Papers
Special Issue on: "Innovation Networks"
Deadline: 15 January 2007

Guest Editors:
Petra Ahrweiler, University of Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Pyka, University of Augsburg, Germany

Governing innovation, i.e. knowledge production, distribution and
exploitation, as the main resource of modern societies is a complex
policy task which has to take into account the various and sometimes
contradicting features of knowledge. Innovation networks are a principal
mode of co-ordination which are particularly relevant in knowledge-based
market sectors such as biotechnology and the ICT industries. The need
for knowledge creation and transfer within markets is one of the main
reasons for networking. Combining knowledge resources in networks
enables innovation and learning that are difficult to provide by other
means. Thus, markets are more than places where goods are bought and
sold within an institutional context: they are the arenas where
innovation takes place, where knowledge is generated, communicated,
re-combined and exchanged.

The aim of this special issue is to identify future research frameworks
to model and analyse knowledge generation and distribution processes in
innovation networks. Proposing sector-specific governance strategies can
be considered as an additional step which could result in a follow-up
issue.

Subject Coverage

Topics include but are not limited to:

    * Modelling knowledge generation
    * The emergence of new technologies
    * Invention, innovation and imitation
    * New modes of knowledge production
    * Generating knowledge in R&D networks
    * Modelling knowledge distribution
    * Fostering and limiting knowledge flows
    * The global research area
    * The contextualisation of knowledge
    * Local knowledge clusters of expertise
    * Science and technology policy
    * The governance of innovation

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 15 January 2007
Notification to authors: 15 March 2007
Final versions due: 15 July 2007

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

    PD Dr. Petra Ahrweiler
    Research Centre Media and Politics
    University of Hamburg
    Sedanstrasse 19
    D-20146 Hamburg
    Germany
    Tel: +49-(40) 42838-6557
    Fax: +49-(40) 42838-7497
    E-mail: ahrweiler at sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de

    PD Dr. Andreas Pyka
    Economics Department
    University of Augsburg
    Universitaetsstrasse 16
    D-86135 Augsburg
    Germany
    Tel: +49-(821) 598-4178
    Fax: +49-(821) 598-4229
    E-mail: andreas.pyka at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

    with a copy to:

    IEL Editorial Office
    E-mail: ijfip at inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor

More info at
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=490