Call for Papers

The First International Workshop on Innovation Management and

Knowledge Network after the Financial Crisis (IMKN 2012)

In conjunction with BIFE 2012

http://www.gip.hk/bife2012/workshop.htm

Motivation

The financial crisis in 2009 has brought to the fore the new challenge of knowledge

and innovation management in a turbulent context. For both small and large

corporations in China, questions like how to coordinate local manufacturing activities

with changing world market, or how to manage tacit and codified knowledge

circulation in aglobal business community, have never been so significant by now.

Against this background, the First International Workshop on Innovation Management

and KnowledgeNetwork intends to provide an opportunity for communication of

scholars,industrialists, and entrepreneurs interested in improving their research and

development, andbusiness applications in innovation management and knowledge

sharing.

Topics

As one part of the Fourth International Conference on Business Intelligence and

Financial Engineering (BIFE 2012), The First International Workshop on Innovation

Management and Knowledge Network will create a platform for idea discussion and

knowledgecommunication. The aim of this special session is to present the recent

practice, studiesand explorations in this field. Both theoretical and practical

contributions areequally appreciated. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

􀁺 The Basic Theories of Innovation Management

􀁺 The New Advances in Innovation Management

􀁺 Technology Strategy and Management

􀁺 Innovation Policy and Management

􀁺 Technology Intelligence and Planning

􀁺 R&D Management

􀁺 Process Innovation and Development

􀁺 Managing IT and E-Commerce

􀁺 Knowledge Management

􀁺 Intellectual Property Right and Patent Management

􀁺 Human Capital for Innovation

􀁺 Service Innovation and Management

􀁺 Intellectual Property Protection Mechanism and Innovation

􀁺 Industry Innovation and Management

􀁺 Internationalization, Knowledge Spillover and Innovation

􀁺 Industry Agglomeration and Innovation

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission ------ April15, 2012

Notification of acceptance ------ April25, 2012

Deadline for camera-ready manuscript submission ------ May 25, 2012

All the submittedpapers should be in English, using the IEEE two-column template,

include all tables,figures and references (http://www.gip.hk/bife2012/submission.htm).

All papers must besubmitted electronically in WORD or PDF format and be mailed to

address: lgong@re.ecnu.edu.cn with the subject of “IMKN 2012 Submission”.

Publications

Submitted papersshould not have been previously published nor be currently under

consideration forpublication elsewhere. All accepted workshop papers will be included in

ConferenceProceedings if they have paid for registration fee. Furthermore, the workshop

organizers canrecommend the extended versions of some selected high-quality workshop

papers to someinternational journals.