Cabinet Dr. Roth

The IJISSC Yearbook of the Next Society will be published as annual special issue of the International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change. The yearbook’s focus is on research on the structures and semantics of past and future forms of society. Next Society is therefore both a self-definition of the present computer society and an icon far transcending it. Next to articles on endeavors in social theory and research, the journal presents next articles and next snippets, which are shorter and shortest outlines of research yet to be done.

Next Society is published by IGI Global, Hershey, United States.

Following the events in Prague and Stuttgart, the 5th International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation will take place in Vienna, Sept 19-21, 2011.

Link to conference homepage

Registration starts in April!

Interdisciplinary Workshop Organized by Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University

Supported by the Open Society Foundations HESP Academic Fellowship Program

25-26 January, 2011

Chairs: Assoc-Prof. Steffen Roth, Assoc.-Prof. Artur Atanesyan, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Arsen Bobokhyan, Dr. Hasmik Khalapyan.

Program

I am happy to announce the release of the monograph ‘Markt ist nicht gleich Wirtschaft. These zur Begründung einer allgemeinen Marktsoziologie‘, published by the Carl Auer Verlag, Heidelberg.

The edited volume of selected papers presented at the 3. International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI 2009) is available now:

Karel Müller, Steffen Roth and Milan Zak (eds.) (2010) Social Dimension of Innovation, Prague, Linde.

After having focused on ‘Non-technological and non-economic innovations and their impact on economy’ (Bern 2008) and ‘The social dimension of innovation’ (Prague 2009), this year’s International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI 2010) will turn its attention to the ‘The technological dimension of innovation’ and explore the tension zone between the concepts of a social construction of technology and a technological construction of society.

For further details, please allow me to draw your attention to the conference homepage.

We warmly welcome submissions from scholars in management, sociology, economics, engineering or information sciences. Selected papers will be published in a Special Issue of the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development.

Yesterday’s workshop “Building networks for managing discontinuous innovation” at the Lucerne School of Business ceremonially marked the foundation of the Swiss Innovation Lab. Alongside the ‘Lucerne School of Business’ and the ‘ETH Zurich’, the ‘Swiss Open University of Applied Sciences’ and the ‘University of Fribourg’, the Center  for Management at the ‘Bern University of Applied Sciences’ is among the Lab’s founding members. In close cooperation with business partners like Google Switzerland, Atizo AG or Cham Paper Group, the members meet the challenge of monitoring and triggering disruptive innovations that create new markets and set old ones on the edge.

For further information please refer to this LINK or feel free to contact me via email.

Call for contribution for a special issue of the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (IJISD) on the topic “Open Innovation, Closed Societies“. Deadline: 2009-09-30.

Call for Papers for the follow-up event of last year’s ICICI 2008 in Bern: The ICICI 2009 on “The Social Dimension of Innovation” will take place in Prague, October 1st-2nd! Our partners: the Charles University Prague and the Prague College of Economics and Management (VSEM).