Deadline for abstract submissions is March 1st 2011
STI indicators 2011 Conference
The STI Indicators Conference 2011 is organized in Rome by
the Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth (CERIS) of the
Italian National Research Council (CNR) . The aim of the conference is
to gather researchers, indicator producers and stakeholders interested
in new developments in the field of STI indicators, around the notion of
positioning indicators, as well as the use of indicators for strategic
decisions of policymakers and research actors
The call for papers for the 2011 conference can be downloaded here; the deadline for abstract submissions is March 1st 2011.
Extended Abstract submission deadline: 20 June 2010
Full paper submission deadline: 15 October 2010
Author notification - review comments: 30 February 2011
Guest Editor: Dr. Giovanni Cerulli, Dr. Bianca Maria Potì, CERIS-CNR, Italy
This special issue aims at collecting papers dealing with major advances on the analysis of the effect of public incentives on firm R&D and innovation (RDI). Although to date many studies have provided evidence-based analyses of public incentives’ effectiveness on company RDI, many aspects still needs to be deepened and unfolded, especially along these three different but interconnected streams of inquiry demanding:
further exploration of the subject in terms of even more precise statistical techniques, especially those incorporating non-linearity and other complexities and accounting for heterogeneity of supported units;
more in-depth investigation of the processes through which policies take place in specific institutional contexts, with a specific focus on the relation between funding public agencies' and firms' interactive behaviours and strategies;
better identification of the set of feasible and appropriate indicators required to perform sound evidence-based evaluation and policy guidance in an STI environment.