The main Conference theme for Globlelics 2018 is Innovation, Economic Growth and SustainableDevelopment: Strengthening Institutions for Greater Relevance, Effectiveness and Inclusivity.
The conference invites papers addressing the role of different types of actors such as the State, local or traditional authorities, global networks, universities and research institutions, private sector, non-governmental organisations / civil society organisations and media in generating innovation, building capacity and strengthening institutions for sustainable development and inclusive growth. In particular, it aims to explore new approaches to understand innovations and institutional transformations within countries, across different economic sectors, and different operation level (macro, meso and micro), without losing sight of contextual gender disparities.
The conference will also consider the need to tackle new challenges related to innovation and capacity building in addition to inclusive development in knowledge and political systems. The conference also welcomes papers studying how development policies can be implemented at different levels and across different countries to innovate out of emerging crisis of climate change, “resource curse”, youth unemployment, poverty, health and gender inequalities.
Conference Tracks
Accepted papers will be organized around parallel paper tracks encompassing the following sub-themes:
- Science, technology, innovation and the sustainable development goals: Policy and Practice
- Agricultural innovation systems: Addressing the poverty challenge
- University relationships with industry, policy and society: the developmental university
- Intellectual property rights, open innovation and development
- National, regional and local innovation systems
- Renewable energy: innovating inclusive and resilient infrastructure
- Sectoral innovation systems: technology policy and catch-up
- Creative industries, smart cities and sustainable urban development
- Trade, FDI, value chains and innovation networks
- Entrepreneurship, youth employment and innovation management
- The role of innovation in overcoming the resource curse: prescriptive models for sustainable growth
- Innovation for Inclusive development: Indigenous knowledge, informal economy and micro and small enterprises
- The gender dimension of innovation and development
- Improving the quality of life: Sustainable healthcare, water and sanitation innovation systems
- Empirical methodologies, data requirements, indicators, different approaches and methodologies