TAKE 2017 will be held in Zagreb the capital
city of Croatia at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business. TAKE 2017 will be held in Zagreb the capital
city of Croatia at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business.
The University of Zagreb is the oldest Croatian university and also the oldest university in South East Europe. The university was officially founded 23 September 1669 by Emperor and King Leopold I Habsburg when the study of philosophy in Zagreb acquired a formal and legal status as Neoacademia Zagrabiensis and officially became a public institution of higher education.
The Faculty
of Economics and Business Zagreb is a constituent part of the
University of Zagreb. Its origins date back to 1920. The Faculty of
Economics and Business Zagreb has a high reputation in educating experts
in the areas of economics and business in Central and Southeastern Europe.
It is committed to meet the expectations of students by developing modern
educational programs and by encouraging scientific research. The true
value and worth of the Faculty of Economics and Business are its graduates
whose number has now exceeded 75.000. At the moment, more than 10.000
students are enrolled in various study programs. That makes Faculty
of Economics and Business Zagreb one of the largest educational
institutions in field of economics and business in Central and
Southeastern Europe.
TAKE 2017 will take place in Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, the youngest member of the European Union. It is a modern city with a rich Central European culture and history. Zagreb is known as a hospitable and a pleasant city on the historic and political threshold between East and West and, therefore, it is branded as "Zagreb - city with a million hearts". For more information about Zagreb click here.
TAKE 2017 will have the following objectives:
a) To analyze the relation between the theory and the applications the
economy of the 21st century.
b) To understand how to improve the management of the knowledge
based economy we live in.
c) To analyze the today’s economy putting together contributions for
various fields, namely Knowledge Management, Intellectual Capital, Human
Resource Development, etc.
d) To deal with specific problems we felt are decisive in the economy as
Competitiveness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship;
e) To analyze specific sectors that are at the heart of the economic live
like the Public Sector, and Logistics,
f) To analyze the case of specific countries, and not only in the
developed OECD countries but also in the BRICs.
We consider the knowledge economy a broad spectrum which includes things
such as diverse as: HRD, KM, IC, etc, as described by the 10 standing
streams and therefore we welcome really contributions in all these fields.
For this conference we have gathered together a team of 17 scholars from 11 countries (Austria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, and USA), that will assure the development of 12 streams, in different areas of the topic Theory and Applications in the Knowledge Economy.
And it will be organized in collaboration of University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business (Croatia); GOVCOPP, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and E4 Conferences Scientific Organization.
TAKE 2017 will also co-managed by GOVCOPP the research centre on Public Policies classified with Excellent by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in 2015.
TAKE 2017 will be also managed by E4 Conferences Scientific Organization a company specialized in organizing international conferences.
The Programme Commitee consists of the conference keynote speakers and stream leaders. The stream leader(s) are responsible for organizing and managing the blind peer-review process within the particular conference stream. The conference papers are peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. The Programme Commitee is responsible to maintain high ethical standards regarding the peer-review process.