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European Conference on Intellectual Capital

5 April 2009 Events, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge innovation

European Conference on Intellectual Capital
INHolland University of Applied Sciences, Haarlem, The Netherlands
28-29 April 2009

From the conference website:

Today, almost 80% of economic value creation is based on intellectual resources. However, most organisations still do not know how to reveal the value of these resources and how to give direction to future value creation. The concept of intellectual capital gives intangibles ‘a body’ and therefore makes it possible to measure, communicate and interpret them.

This conference combines theory and practice and gives a state-of-the-art overview of intellectual capital measurement and management. The European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC) has invited researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in the field of intellectual capital (IC) measurement and management.

The aim of this conference is to contribute to the further advancement of IC theory and practice. We hope this meeting will be as successful as the first Intellectual Capital Congress in Helsinki, Finland (2004) and the second, which was also held in Haarlem, The Netherlands (2007). In 2007 we welcomed more than 150 participants from 26 countries from all over the world.

Conference Chair is Daan Andriessen, Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital, INHolland University, The Netherlands.

For more information and a look at the preliminary programme, you can visit the conference website:
http://academic-conferences.org/ecic/ecic2009/ecic09-home.htm

The European Conference on Intellectual Capital will be hosted by the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital (CRIC) of INHolland University of Applied Sciences. Although formally founded in 2003, the CRIC also has its roots in the 1999 OECD conference. Today the centre has a solid reputation in the international IC community. It is involved in many IC reporting and management projects and IC curriculum development projects all over the world.
http://www.inholland.nl/INHOLLANDCOM/Research/Intellectual+Capital.htm

Filed under: Events, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge innovation

3rd Future Center Summit open for registration

5 April 2009 Future Centers

DESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY
Stockholm, Sweden: 14-16 May 2009

Registration for the 3nd International Future Center Summit has begun. The Summit will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on the 14th – 16th May. It brings together people working at existing future centers and innovation centers, people with the intention of creating such centers, and people working with these and similar concepts. There will be an inspiring, international group of practitioners and thinkers, and the tentative program includes workshops on social entrepreneurship, intercultural collaboration and society design.

The fee for participating in the Summit is € 375 (including vat).

If you have not applied yet, you must first send a request to the organizers and wait for confirmation before you can register, as there are only a limited number of places available. First come, first served!

Send your application request to Henrik Danckwardt – IC Community / e-mail: henrik.danckwardt@iccommunity.com

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European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Roundtable

5 April 2009 Sustainable futures, [General]

Establishment of the European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Roundtable
From a Joint Press Release, 26th February 2009

Major stakeholders in the European food and drink chain set up a roundtable to promote environmental sustainability.

Food and drink products play a fundamental role in daily life. Every day, some 500 million EU citizens rely on high quality food for their nutrition, health and wellbeing. Food and drink products relate to their lifestyle and reflect their cultural identity.

At the same time, the production and consumption of food and drink products (from farm to fork and end-of-life) also triggers environmental implications, like for other products. The European food chain shares the responsibility and commitment to ensure that production and consumption of food not only meet consumers’ needs for food safety, nutrition, health, affordability and product choice and contribute to the generation of economic growth, but that they are also environmentally sustainable, respecting the carrying capacity of the Earth’s ecosystems in the long term.

While the concept of SCP generally applies to all products sold and bought on the market, food and drink products are different. Their specificities in terms of health, nutrition, wellbeing, cultural identity and lifestyle make them incomparable to any other product. It is for that reason that a dedicated Roundtable is being established to properly address the specific sustainability implications of the production and consumption of food and drink products.

The Roundtable will constitute a major food sector-wide contribution to the EU’s ambitions in the field of Sustainable Consumption and Production, bringing together farmers and their suppliers, agricultural traders, food and drink producers, packaging suppliers, recovery organisations and civil society representatives, and will be supported by the UN Environment Programme and the European Environment Agency.
Its outstanding features are its clear-cut focus on food and drink products and the involvement of all major food value chain players on an equal footing. The Roundtable will add significant value to initiatives outlined in the European Commission’s 2008 Action Plan.
The first priority of the “European Food SCP Roundtable” will be to facilitate agreement on uniform and scientifically reliable environmental assessment methodologies for food products.

The Roundtable will examine key sustainability challenges along the food value chain (e.g. climate change, water conservation, resource efficiency and waste reduction) and develop adequate strategies to address them.  The Food SCP Roundtable will be formally launched in a public stakeholder event in April 2009. Participation is open to all food chain partners and other relevant stakeholders, including NGOs, with pertinent expertise and who are committed to engage themselves actively towards the objectives of the Roundtable.

Participation is open but conditional on relevant expertise, active engagement, and commitment to the objectives of the Roundtable. For further information regarding participation in the Roundtable, please contact Ms Catherine Stadion, CIAA Secretariat (e-mail: c.stadion@ciaa.eu).

To view the Joint Press Releaaze, click here:

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