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Nelson and Winter Conference in Aalborg, Denmark June 12-15 2001 organised by DRUID
Call for papers
It is now almost 20 years since Dick Nelson and Sid Winter published their seminal book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. In this occasion DRUID (Danish Research Unit of Industrial Dynamics), in collaboration with the journals Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change organises a conference to take place in Aalborg, Denmark, June 12-15, 2001.The Conference is intended to map theoretical and empirical advances over the last two decades, further contribute with novel insights and stimulate civilized controversies in some of the areas explored by the Nelson and Winter book. The programme will be organised along six themes (in parenthesis some of the scholars who have already committed them to deliver a lead paper to the theme).
Theme A: Industrial and Market Dynamics (Bo Carlsson, Wes Cohen, Gunnar Eliasson, Paul Geroski, Steve Klepper, Franco Malerba, Stan Metcalfe, Luigi Orsenigo)
Theme B: Production and Use of Knowledge (Ed Constant, Paul David, Dominique Foray, Brian Loasby, Keith Pavitt, Ed Steinmueller)
Theme C: Technical Change, Production Organisation and the Firm (Esben Sloth Andersen, Patrick Cohendet, Benjamin Coriat, Giovanni Dosi, Richard Langlois, Patrick Llerena, Roy Radner, Ulrich Witt)
Theme D: Routines, Organisational Practises and Strategies (Jens Frøslev Christensen, Nicolai J. Foss, Ove Granstrand, Constance Helfat, Dan Levinthal, George B. Richardson,)
Theme E: Growth, Development and Structural Change (Mario Cimoli, Jan Fagerberg, Jorge Katz, Richard Lipsey, Peter Maskell, Lynn Mytelka, Gerald Silverberg, Bart Verspagen)
Theme F: National Systems of Innovation, Institutions and Public Policies (Robert Boyer, Charles Edquist, Bent Dalum, Bjoern Johnson, David Mowery, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Keith Smith, Morris Teubal)
Masahiko Aoki, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete, David Teece, and Sidney Winter are amongst the participants in the opening or closing sessions. Both seniors and junior scholars are invited to join the event and contribute with a paper to the Conference. In particular, we want to encourage an active participation by young scholars (Ph.D.-students and scholars who finished their Ph.D. less than 5 years ago). Abstracts ought to be sent by February 15, 2001 to the following e-mail address:
Since the selection of papers will be based on the abstracts we would like applicants to send extended abstracts (min. 2 pages) with a full outline of the argument and key references. Mention should also be made of whether the proposed paper falls within any of the six themes. By March 15, 2001 the organising committee will inform the applicants about the acceptance of the paper. Full papers should be delivered by May 10, 2001. Participants whose papers have been accepted will have conference fee waived. Moreover for young scholars with accepted papers there will be the possibility to apply for support to travel and accomodation.
The conference is in honour of the work by Nelson and Winter but we do not expect the majority of papers to be explicit comments to their work. Rather we expect papers to primarily to be original contributions and the conference as a whole to take stock from different perspectives on the issues raised in their book.
We plan special issues of Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change, as well as a Book to come out in 2002 to mark the 20th anniversary. After usual refereeing process the best contributions from younger scholars will be included in these publications together with contributions from senior scholars.
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