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2nd SEEK Conference

The Green Growth Challenge

2nd SEEK Conference, March 9 - 10, 2012, Mannheim, Germany

Due to the remarkably high level of interest in the first SEEK Conference in 2011, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is delighted to announce the second conference of its research programme "Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies" (SEEK). The prime goal of the conference is to elucidate the challenges to pursuing a smart and sustainable growth path in the economies of Europe. Since this issue has been receiving increasing attention in the worlds of politics and academia, a second aim is to bring together policy makers and scientists to discuss the hurdles to developing green innovations within innovation ecosystems. Researchers from various economic and managerial disciplines are thus invited to present their research on the following topics; submitted papers take either a generalist or environmental economics perspective:

  • Generation of knowledge and innovations
  • Diffusion and adoption of knowledge and innovations
  • Use of knowledge by entrepreneurs and industries
  • Impacts of innovations on competiveness, growth and employment
  • Role of innovation in tackling societal challenges
  • Challenges to and impacts of innovation and environmental policies

Programme

Speakers

  • Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • Franz Untersteller, Minister of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector of Baden-Württemberg
  • Georg Müller, Chairman of the Board of Directors, MVV Energie AG
  • Peter Terwiesch, Chief Executive Officer, ABB AG
  • Fritz Vahrenholt, Chief Executive Officer, RWE Innogy GmbH
  • Georg Zachmann, Research Fellow on Energy and Climate Change, BRUEGEL

Key-Note Lectures

  • Richard G. Newell (Duke University)
  • Robert N. Stavins (Harvard University)

SEEK Scientific Board

  • Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
  • Bronwyn Hall (University of California, Berkeley & Maastricht University)
  • Kai Konrad (MPI Munich)
  • Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School)
  • Steve Machin (University College London)
  • Pierre Mohnen (UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University)
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
  • Wolfgang Franz (ZEW)
  • Georg Licht (ZEW)

Further information

Local accommodation and travel costs will be covered for participants who present a paper. Presenters may be kindly requested to discuss another paper. http://seek.zew.eu/

Conference Coordinators

Nicole Karle, Vera Pauli and Jasmin Tillich (seek@zew.de)

Accommodations

We recommend the following hotels in Mannheim:

• Best Western Premier Steubenhof Hotel (single room: 84,- Euro)
• Best Western Premier Hotel LanzCarré (single room: 96,- Euro)
• Balladins Superior (single room: 76,- Euro) 
• InterCityHotel Mannheim (single room: 81,- Euro)

Special conditions are available using the code "SEEK". Please note that contingents are limited and available until 6 February 2012.