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ECKM 2007: The 8th European Conference on Knowledge Management |
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The European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2007) invites researchers, academics and people from business who are involved in the knowledge management and intellectual capital initiatives to come together debate ideas and present their latest findings and ongoing research. In its 8th year, the conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is the economic, cultural and administrative capital of Catalonia. Strategically located in the Mediterranean and acting as the hub of a polynucleate metropolitan region with 4.6 million inhabitants, it is a plural, multicultural and growing space of exchange in which individuals and organisations can devote to their own projects in a climate of dynamism, harmony and creativity. Recent developments like the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, the Scientific Park of Barcelona and Barcelona Activa are vivid manifestations of a city that has made a clear bet to become the core of a territory of constant innovation and a knowledge-city at citizens reach. The Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) is a public institution of higher education dedicated to teaching, research and innovation and committed with delivering results to the productive, scientific and social fabric. UPC was created in 1971 by grouping a number of schools and research centres -some of them centennial- located in various cities (Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, San Cugat del Vallés, Terrassa and Vilanova i la Geltrú). The College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (EUETIB), the conference venue, is one of such centennial innovative schools strongly responsive to the ever changing demands of the environment. Currently, UPC has some 35,000 students and offers over 60 official first and second cycle qualifications and more than 45 doctoral programmes specialising in technical, science, art and humanities and a wide range of face-to-face and blended lifelong courses as well. CALL FOR PAPERS This is the first call for papers for the 8th European Conference on Knowledge Management, which will be held at the Consorci Escola Industrial de Barcelona (CEIB), Barcelona, Spain on 06-07 September 2007. A main implication of the knowledge economy is that there is not alternative way to prosperity than to make learning and knowledge creation of prime relevance. Issues of knowledge creation, use and transfer and innovation competencies building have moved to the forefront of attention in corporate competitive strategy and in economic, social and industrial policy as well. Competing worldwide demands individual and organisational creativity, high level skills and capabilities and adaptive and innovative learning organisations and institutions. To keep abreast of the volatile and changing environment organisations, countries and regions need to develop a better understanding of how knowledge and intellectual capital deliver effective business processes and high value goods and services. In particular, they have to develop awareness of and mechanisms to manage the risks that are inherent to this new context and improved methods to link IC and KM to the firm’s future streams of cash flows and GDP growth. The increasing and dynamic securitisation market on intellectual property (The Economist, Jun. 17th 2006) is but an example of such demands and challenges. ECKM 2007 provides an opportunity for academics and practitioners from Europe and elsewhere who are involved in the study; management, development and implementation of knowledge management initiatives to come together and exchange ideas. The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of papers on both the theory and advanced practice of all aspects of knowledge management (KM) and intellectual capital (IC). In addition to the main conference, submissions are welcomed for four mini tracks; Measuring and evaluating intellectual capital and knowledge assets (Track Chair: Bernard Marr, Cranfield School of Management, UK); Human capital for outstanding results (Track Chair: Maria do Rosario Cabrita, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Linking KM and IC to the economic growth of countries and regions and people’s welfare (Track Chair: José Ma. Viedma, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Auditing KM (Track chair to be confirmed). Abstracts are required in the first instance and should be submitted via the online form at http://www.academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2007/eckm07-abstract-submission.htm by the closing date, 29 March 2007. You can find full details about the conference, including full calls for papers, on the conference website at http://www.academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2007/eckm07-home.htm 
You can also request a copy of the calls for papers by email from  mandy@academic-conferences.org
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