Accepted papers will be organized around parallel paper tracks encompassing:
- University relationships with industry and society: the developmental university
- Indigenous knowledge, informal sector, innovation and development
- Gender, innovation and development
- Science, technology, innovation policy and development
- Intellectual property rights, open innovation and development
- National, continental and regional innovation system
- Technological infrastructure and technological capabilities
- Sectoral innovation system, systemic industrial policy and development
- Innovation systems, networks, global value chains and foreign direct investments
- Entrepreneurship and innovation management in companies, organizations, government and local authorities
- Agricultural innovation system
- Science, technology, innovation and the sustainable development goals
- Creative industries, smart cities and economic development
- Innovation, financialization and the global crisis: what kind of policies and strategies are needed?
- Innovation studies: Empirical methodologies, data requirements, indicators, different approaches and methodologies