Call for Papers (PDF)

This conference aims to provide some answers to the questions such as:
*How do companies co-create value using knowledge management for sustainable innovation?

*How can Knowledge Management contribute to sustainable value creation in innovation?
*How does knowledge management technology help to advance sustainable value creation in innovation?
*What practical processes and systems are companies putting in place to support sharing and creation of knowledge for more environmentally and socially responsible business practices?
*How is Knowledge Management redefined by the requirements of sustainable innovation?
*What are the critical social systems and cultural issues involved in turning knowledge management into a vital, dynamic, self-renewing learning system in support of sustainability? And soon.

Topics of conference include, but are not limited to:
*Information security and knowledge protection
*Innovation and Knowledge
*Knowledge Management and supply chains
*Best practices scenario of KM initiatives in the developed and developing countries
*Benefits and challenges in adopting KM in the public sector
*Innovation management in the public sector through KM
*Re-thinking Knowledge Management
*Learning for sustainability
*Collaborative relationships towards sustainable knowledge generation, transfer and development
*Application of sustainability principles in existing knowledge management approaches
*Governmental and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation
*The critical success factors of sustainable knowledge management
*How do service firms transfer intra- and inter-firm knowledge to support their service business?
*How do firms build competences for service business? What are the critical skills and competencies required?
*Innovative processes and models
*Tools and techniques
*Innovation in education and training
*Management systems
*Methods and tools for innovation
*The conditions for developing sustainable systems of innovation
*Open innovation strategies and models from universities and research centres
*International cooperation and national innovation policies to face global challenges
*Analyzing cultures that foster open innovation ownership at external touch points throughout the corporate enterprise
*Discovering creative business models that shift the availability of held intellectual assets for collaborative efforts and the monetization of shelved assets
*Develop the enabling environment for innovative entrepreneurship
*Human resources practices for promoting innovation for SMEs
*Green Innovation
*Knowledge creation and capture
*Networks and clusters of innovation
*Sustainable product design and development
*Sustainable consumption & production
*Sustainable entrepreneurship
*Sustainable technologies
*KM and sustainable competitive advantage
*KM, HR & Organizational Culture
*KM & Organizational Structures
*Value Creation through Knowledge
*Knowledge Measurement & Evaluation
*Knowledge Creation
*KM Implementation Challenges & Opportunities
*Organizational Memory
*KM & Data Security
*Knowledge Assets
*Knowledge Measurement & Evaluation
*Customer knowledge in innovation
*Knowledge sharing
*Customer Knowledge Management
*Managing Knowledge for Global and Collaborative Innovations
*Service innovation; Service supply chain management; Service value chain management
*Co-production of knowledge
*Knowledge Management for Social Change and Innovation
*Knowledge Management in the cloud
*The impacts of Knowledge Management in the Organization
*Integrating Knowledge Management and Risk Management
*Cultural barriers that hinder effective knowledge management

*Others