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EURAS 2021: 25th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Germany, September 6-8, 2021 |
Conference website | http://euras.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euras2021 |
Submission deadline | April 26, 2021 |
Topics: standardisation innovation
Standards are often perceived as obstacles to innovation. Yet, many scientific studies suggest the opposite: The use of standards and participation in standards development may be crucial for turning an innovation into a market success. At the same time, innovations may lead to new standards. Positive links between standards and innovation have been shown for numerous industry sectors, national economies and society at large. However, if this relationship is not managed well, the opposite effect may well be observed.
These links between standards, standardisation, and innovation have repeatedly been shown, but there are relatively few studies which provide evidence and theoretical explanations about the causal mechanisms behind these links. There is also a lack of knowledge about the factors that may influence this relationship.
Standardisation and innovation have ramifications for a range of stakeholders, including policy makers, firms, individuals and, indeed, society. Thus, if, how and why individual groups of stakeholders try to manage or even influence these processes is, or should be, a matter of broad interest (not least against the background of the emerging ‘smart’ applications).
At this conference, we welcome scientific contributions from both academia and industry related to these issues as well as contributions by practitioners about how they manage standardisation and innovation jointly. However, papers on other standardisation topics will also be considered. Sample topics include, but are not limited to:
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Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
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Full research papers (up to 20 single-spaced pages);
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Practitioners’ papers (primarily, though not exclusively on joint standardisation and innovation management; up to 4 single-spaced pages).
Research papers will be peer-reviewed (double blind) by at least two members of the Technical Programme Committee. Practitioners’ papers will go through a more informal suitability check.
All papers should adhere to the formatting guidelines and be submitted as .pdf files via EasyChair at:
Formatting Guidelines
Deadlines
Paper submission: 12 April 2021
Notification: 31 May 2021
Final paper due: 5 July 2021
Programme Committee
Martin Adolph, ITU, CH
Marie Barani, UK
Rudi Bekkers, TU Eindhoven, NL
Knut Blind, TU Berlin, DE
Francesco Bolici, U. Cassino, IT (tbc)
Nils Brunsson, Uppsala U., SE
Pavel Castka, U. Canterbury, NZ (tbc)
Axel Czaya, Helmut-Schmidt U., DE
Panagiotis Delimatsis, Tilburg U., NL
Tineke Egyedi, DIRoS, NL (tbc)
Vladislav Fomin, Vilnius U., LT (tbc)
Andrea Fried, Linköping U., SE
John-Stewart Gordon, VMU, LT
Jean-Christophe Graz, UNIL, CH
Eric Iversen, NIFU, NO
Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE
Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL
Thomas Kalling, Lund U., SE
Olia Kanevskaia, KU Leuven, BE
Ivana Mijatovic, Belgrade U., SRB (tbc)
Anne Mione, U. Montpellier, FR
Craig Murphy, Wellesley College, US
Piergiuseppe Morone, Unitelma-Sapienza, IT (tbc)
Eitan Naveh, Technion, IL
Marta Orviska, UMB, SK
Anke Piepenbrink, Rennes Business School, FR
Megan Quinlan, Imperial College, UK
Karen Richmond, U. Copenhagen, DK
Cesare Riillo, STATEC, LU
Jan Smits, TU Eindhoven, NL
Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL
Valerio Torti, LUISS, IT
Klaus Turowski, U. Magdeburg, DE
Taavi Valdlo, Consultant, EE
Francesco Virili, U. Sassari, IT
Henk de Vries, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
Ray Walshe, DCU, IE (tbc)
Marc van Wegberg, Independent Consultant, NL
Robert van Wessel, ApexIS, NL (tbc)
Gill Whitney, Middlesex U., UK (tbc)
Paul Wiegmann, TU Eindhoven, NL
JoAnne Yates, MIT, US
Publication
EURAS 2021 proceedings will be published in in the conference proceedings, as part of the ‘EURAS Contributions to Standardisation Research’ book series. No transfer of copyright will be required. Particularly good and relevant papers will be fast-tracked to a Special Issue of the International Journal on Standardization Research for a Special Issue on ‘Standardisation and Innovation’ (subject to authors’ consent).
Venue
The conference will be held at
RWTH Aachen University
Informatics Centre
Building E2, Lecture Hall AH VI
52074 Aachen
Germany
For directions, please see: https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/contact
Contact
Please send all enquiries to Kai Jakobs at Kai.Jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de.
or more information about EURAS please visit http://www.euras.org (new web site under construction).