We invite you to the first IAS International Conference, to be held at Lancaster University, 31 August-2 September 2006. The Conference is an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the nature and future of the knowedge-based economy. Proposals for working papers or presentations within the Parallel Sessions of the Conference should be made in the form of abstracts of no more than 250 words to ias@lancaster.ac.uk by 14 July 2006.
Papers will be presented that engage critically with the knowledge-based economy in terms of different academic disciplines and interdisciplinary scholarship, different professional, practitioner and stakeholder interests, and policies and strategies that take the knowledge-based economy in one or another guise as their starting point. Indicative topics for papers and parallel sessions include:
Consumers and Consumption
Corporations in the Knowledge-Based Economy
Creative Industries and Cultural Policy (Session including invited speaker, Iain Bennett, Head of Creative Industries, NWDA)
Discourses and Narratives of the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Professor Norman Fairclough)
Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy
Governing the Knowledge-Based Economy: markets, states and networks (Session led by Professor Bob Jessop)
Innovation, including bioeconomy and nanotechnology (Session led by Dr James Wilsdon and Professor Brian Wynne)
Learning Organisations in the Knowledge-Based Economy
Knowledge-Based Organisations and their Management
Professions in the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Professor David Sugarman)
Regions in the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Dr Ramon Ribera-Fumaz and Professor Bob Jessop)
Space and Mobility in the Knowledge-Based Economy (Session led by Professor John Urry)
Papers on other topics and proposals for other streams are also welcome. Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM. We will be supporting symposium organizers in publishing selected papers in special issues of refereed journals or themed edited collections.
To submit a paper proposal, please e-mail it to ias@lancaster.ac.uk
http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/info/lunews.nsf/I/E4EC83B4270494E380257194003135A2
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/conference/
