DRUID24 
Nice, June 13-June 15 
Submission deadline:  March 1
Web site: www.druid.dk
 
   
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 

Dear Maryann Feldman
 
Since 1996, DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change. DRUID is proud to invite senior and junior scholars to participate and contribute with a paper to DRUID24, hosted by SKEMA Business School and University Côte d'Azur. Presenting distinguished plenary speakers, a range of parallel paper sessions, and an attractive social program, the conference aims at mapping theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, contributing novel insights, and help identifying scholarly positions, divisions, and common grounds in current scientific controversies within the field.
  

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
 
KEYNOTES delivered by top scholars from innovation studies, management, economic geography, and numerous other research fields. Speakers at DRUID24 include Annamaria Conti, Joshua Gans, Christoph Grimpe, Hyunjin Kim, Abhishek Nagaraj, Elisa Operti, Jan-Michael Ross, Maria Savona, Neil Thompson, and Maryann Tripsas. 

DRUID DEBATES with outstanding scholars exchanging opinions in a heated and entertaining setting, and the conference audience opposing or supporting their standpoints. DRUID24 Debates address Artificial Intelligence and Deskilling, and Using Sports Data for Decision-Making.  

PAPER SESSIONS presenting peer reviewed papers with previously unpublished research, all with engaged session chairs and carefully appointed discussants. DRUID24 invites paper submissions on innovation, entrepreneurship and other aspects of structural, institutional and geographic change, such as
• Open innovation, search strategies and knowledge sourcing
• Markets for technology and knowledge labor

• Digital markets, platforms and eco-systems
• Entrepreneurship, growth 
and entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Creativity, R&D management and organizational behavior

• Scientific knowledge production and university-industry interaction
• Local, regional and global geographies of innovation, innovation systems, innovation networks and connectedness

• Institutional, social and frugal innovation and entrepreneurship

• Eco-innovation, sustainability, inequality and inclusion

In particular, DRUID24 invites papers with new, mixed, or multi-disciplinary theoretical approaches or innovative methods that will benefit from the open-ended discussions at a DRUID conference.

BEST PAPER AWARDS. Accepted papers authored or co-authored by doctoral students will be considered for the Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper while all papers accepted for the conference will be considered for the DRUID Best Paper Award.


The grand DRUID DINNER is known for its excellent food and high fun factor.

DRUID DISCOVERIES excursions will make the most out of Nice and invite participants on trips to the most happening parts of city.

DRUID DECADENCE. A DRUID institution, the afterparty will find DRUIDs dining, drinking and dancing the night away in a clandestine location. 

 
PDWs

Professional development workshops (PDWs) are focused, user driven sessions offering a way of sharing ideas, knowledge and expertise with peers in the DRUID community and develop new ideas and projects. PDWs at DRUID24 take place 9.00-12.00 on June 13.
 
All participants to DRUID24 can propose a PDW focused on a specific research subfield and/or targeting a specific group, e.g. PhD students, junior faculty, empiricists, theorists, etc. Proposals must contain 1) a max. 2 page description of the activity planned for the workshop; 2) a tentative program with a duration of up to 3 hours; 3) the maximum number of participants for the workshop (rooms are available for 20 up to 75 participants); and 4) a list of confirmed speakers; 5) a brief CV of key applicant(s) and speakers. Please send proposals to at druid24 @ druid.dk no later than March 1. Applicants will be notified of the decision by April 10, and all accepted PDWs will be advertised and included in the DRUID24 program. Speakers and participants must register for the DRUID24 conference. 

 
PAPER SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES

DRUID24 provides an opportunity to take stock of our field and jointly to advance the research frontier. Thus, only previously unpublished research is eligible for presentation and the conference particularly invites research with new, mixed, and multi-disciplinary theoretical approaches and novel methods. Scholars who wish to present their research at the conference must upload a full paper (in PDF, anonymized) not exceeding 12,000 words (including notes, tables, appendices, list of references, etc.) through the website www.druid.dk no later than  March 1 (before midnight at the scholar’s location). Submission of a paper grants permission to DRUID to include it in the conference material and to place it temporarily on the conference website (accessible only to DRUIDs after login). DRUID reserves the right to use available software to control for plagiarism and to take appropriate action in severe cases. Details are available under Terms and Conditions on the website. 
  
All submissions undergo double-blinded reviews by at least two independent reviewers with respect to novelty, academic quality and the paper's relation to the themes of the conference. Decisions of paper acceptance are given April 10. No review or comments will be offered to the author or authors to supplement the decision. Papers not accepted for oral presentation at the conference may be accepted for presentation in a poster session. Authors of accepted papers/posters must pay the conference fee before May 1, or their paper/poster will automatically be removed from the conference program and website. Revised versions of accepted papers may be uploaded until June 1. The final conference program will be available June 1.

Authors may submit more than one paper, but each conference participant will only be allowed to present one paper. Co-authored papers may be presented by any of the participating co-authors.


REGISTRATION

The DRUID website www.druid.dk is open for registration and payment from January 1. Besides registration, the conference fee includes the grand conference dinner, lunch on June 14 and June 15, and coffee and snacks/fruit during breaks all days. Sponsorships from the partner universities have enabled an early-bird conference fee (applicable until May 1) of 540 EUR. After May 1, the latecomer conference fee will be 660 EUR. There is a permanent 50% discount for doctoral students.
 
The website will remain open for payment of the conference fee until June 15. However, authors of accepted papers and posters must pay the fee before May 1, for their paper or poster to be included in the conference program.
 

PRACTICAL

All DRUID conferences aim to be carbon neutral. DRUID sources green conference materials, local vegetarian food and unbottled drinking water. Until lower-emission technologies are generally available DRUID offsets 0.3 ton of CO2 for each delegate (Verified Carbon Standard and Gold Standard), covering the conference’s estimated carbon footprint of catering, venue, lodging and local transport. Upon registration, conference delegates are given the option of offsetting their carbon footprint for air travel to Nice.

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