CFP: Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, 2012

The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society will hold its next biennial conference at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, on July 2-5, 2012. The theme of the meeting will be "Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Competitive Processes in Complex Economic Systems." According to the call for papers:

Although the Conference is open to submissions in all areas of evolutionary economics, the Scientific Committee would like to encourage submissions in six priority areas:

1. Evolutionary perspectives on the causes and consequences of high economic growth in Asian economies
2. The role of energy and other natural resources in economic evolution
3. Understanding and achieving environmental sustainability using evolutionary economic analysis
4. The role of intellectual property in driving innovation in the new media
5. Long waves, finance and global crises
6. Productivity growth and structural change

All paper proposals and abstracts must be submitted on-line through the "speaker portal" on the ISS call for papers website. Please check there for the full call for papers and submission instructions. The deadline for submissions is February 17, 2012.
   For additional conference information, please see the ISS 2012 meeting website.