Welcome to DRUID 2012
Hotels? Just log on and see list under 'practical info'
Socializing with peers? Just log on and book (under registrations). Options include:
A. "DRUID Potion Launch Event" will take place on Tuesday 19, at 7:45 pm. The outdoor grill will serve lamb, chicken and vegetables in plenty quantities. An expert panel will judge the quality of the Potion taking advice from the participants. Will be fun.
B. Excursions etc. are scheduled for Wednesday 20, from 5 pm to 7 pm, before the conference dinner. Participation limited. Choose between four options:
Excursion 1 provides a unique insight into aspects of modern cities often overlooked. Next to trendy downtown cafes and young hipsters foreign trafficked women and drug addicts work as prostitutes. Street prostitution has previously been dominated by Danish women (and a few men) until ten years ago. Now it is foreign women mainly from Romania and Nigeria, who are visible in the streets. During the one hour guided day-light tour through the Red Light District two consultants working at the Danish Centre against Human Trafficking under The National Board of Social Services will talk of the increasing globalization of prostitution, its history, extent, geography and public regulation. Participation limited to 30.
Excursion 2 offers a guided boat trip that takes in the transformation of the water front from old harbour and industrial usages to modern housing and office buildings by internationally renowned architects. Questions will be answered by guides connected to the Danish Architecture Centre or the School of Architecture.
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The DRUID Society 2012 conference on "Innovation and Competitiveness: Dynamics of Organizations, Industries, Systems and Regions" will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark on June 19 at 9 pm – June 21 at 4 pm.
Conference highlights include keynotes offered by Gautam Ahuja, Melissa Schilling and Joel Baum as well as three plenary debates:
1. Support Paul Stoneman and Otto Toivanen or Giovanni Dosi and Sid Winter wrestling over the merits of neoclassical economy in innovation studies.
2. Join the debate on the value of the exploration/exploitation trade-off with John Cantwell and Ram Mudambi pitched against Marco Giarratana and Lori Rosenkopf.
3. Enlist in the dispute over the current IPR-regime effects on growth with Eric von Hippel and Georg Von Krogh against Vincenzo Denicolo' and Scott Stern.
Enjoy some of the 200+ selected competitive paper presentations - all at DRUID 2012.
REGISTRATION: Generous sponsors have enabled a reduction of the early-bird conference fee - applicable until May 1 - for academic scholars to 3000 DKK (or 510 USD or 405 EURO) including membership of the DRUID Society. Doctoral students can register with a 50% discount. After May 1 the latecomer total fee for academic scholars will increase to 3700 DKK (or 630 USD or 500 EURO).
PAPER SUBMISSION: The submission deadline have passed. Authors of accepted papers and posters may upload a new VERSION of their existing paper after log in (using your DRUID-ID and password in the box above, left)
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