IFKAD 2013 - 2013 International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics

In today's business landscape the creation of sustainable value and wealth appears more and more related to the capacity of shaping smart organizations and communities. Increasingly the concept of 'smart growth' is becoming a key issue in the strategic agenda of both business organizations and public authorities. Creating and evolving towards smart, sustainable and inclusive organizations and communities emerge as a key-lever to activate and support development paths in the 21st century. This is the focus of the European Union's Europe 2020 strategy and US Smart Growth America programme.
The aim of the 8th IFKAD is to explore the relevance of the knowledge and intellectual capital management for supporting business organizations as well as regional and urban systems to evolve and become smarter.
Theoretical, empirical and practitioner papers are invited addressing research topics as follows:
Smart growth for 21st century organizations: characteristics and applications
Relationships between knowledge assets and smart organizational configurations
Knowledge-perspective of smart organizations and communities
Knowledge management strategy for smart organizations and communities
Knowledge and innovation capacity for smart organizations and communities
Knowledge resources for smart R&D
Customer-supplier relationships changing for smarter value chains
Planning smarter regions and cities
Intelligent regions and cities
Knowledge value drivers and smart mobility
Knowledge value drivers and smart health
Human capital and smart education
Knowledge and social innovation models for communities development
ICT solutions for smart government
Linking knowledge assets to smart culture and tourism
Knowledge management applications and tools for renewable energy and smart grid
Performance measurement of smart organizations and communities
Arts-based initiatives for shaping smart organizations and communities