5th SEEK Conference Overcoming the Crisis: How to Foster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Diverging European Economy

Conference

The financial crisis and the future of the European Union are still in the focus of the academic and policy debates. A strategy to achieve recovery in Europe refers to boosting investment in infrastructures and R&D, innovation, and entrepreneurship to generate sustainable economic growth. This 5th annual conference of the ZEW research programme "Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies" SEEK brings together policy-makers, business leaders and outstanding scholars. They will discuss if the European economic environment is sufficientlyconducive to the creation of new business and which key factors and policies are missing to effectively foster entrepreneurial success.

The academic sessions will focus on three main topics:

  1. Fostering effective innovation and technology adoption
  2. The impact of ICT on productivity and growth
  3. Competition and regulation.

We seek high-quality academic papers in the following areas:

  • R&D and innovation policy
  • Industry-science links
  • Innovation and growth
  • Open innovation and IPR systems
  • ICT-enabled innovation and growth
  • Digitalisation and firm strategies
  • Digital networks and peerproductivity
  • Competition, regulation and technological progress in network industries
  • Innovation in network industries and externalities
  • Joint R&D strategies and standardisation in networkindustries

Policy Keynote Speaker

  • Peter Praet, Executive board member and chief economist of the European Central Bank
  • Mario Monti, Chairman of the High-level Group on Own Resources of the European Union, former Prime Minister of Italy (2011-2013), former European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation (1995-1999) and for Competition (1999-2004)
  • Via Video Conferencing: Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Google investor, founder and chairman of Arista

Invited Academic Speakers

  • Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago/National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER))
  • Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London)
  • Jim Bessen (Boston University)
  • Georg von Graevenitz (University of London)
  • Tobias Kretschmer (University of Munich)
  • Michael Pollitt (University of Cambridge)
  • Axel Pols (Bitkom Research GmbH)
  • Ingo Vogelsang (Boston University)

SEEK Academic Board

  • Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Bronwyn Hall (University of California Berkeley)
  • Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich)
  • Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School)
  • Stephen Machin (University College London)
  • Pierre Mohnen (UNUMERIT Maastricht)
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
  • Clemens Fuest (ZEW Mannheim)
  • Georg Licht (ZEW Mannheim)

Call for Papers

Call for Papers (as PDF, 128 KB)

Paper Submission

You may submit a full paper (including an abstract of 100-200 words) or an extended abstract of 500-600 words via e-mail to: seek@zew.de (subject "Submission 2015 SEEK conference"; please provide a reference to one of the threemain topics).

Deadline for Paper Submission

May 3, 2015

Venue

08. – 09.10.2015

Conference - 5th SEEK Conference Overcoming the Crisis: How to Foster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Diverging European Economy

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ZEW President Professor Clemens Fuest opening the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Peter Praet, member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, during his speech at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Professor Clemens Fuest and Mario Monti at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Mario Monti, former Italian Minister President, during his speech at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Dr. Georg Licht, Gitte Neubauer, Frédérique Sachwald, Franz Fehrenbach (l-r) during the round table discussion. © ZEW
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ZEW research department head Dr. Georg Licht at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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ZEW economist Dr. Mila Köhler at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Professor Tommasso Valletti during his presentation at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Peter Praet giving an interview to the broadcaster Rhein-Neckar-Fernsehen. © ZEW
Image opens in enlarged view Guests at the 5th SEEK Conference.
Audience members at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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ZEW Director Thomas Kohl and Peter Praet (l-r) at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Peter Praet, member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, and Mario Monti, former Italian Minister President, at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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ZEW research department head Professor Irene Bertschek during her presentation at the 5th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Inequality and Public Policy
Keywords
Conference SEEK Financial crisis
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International Co-operation and Public Relations Officer
Katharina Kober
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