CALL FOR PAPERS
Value Creation through Innovation: Latin America's Unavoidable Challenge
2011 BALAS Annual Conference
13th-15th April 2011, Santiago, Chile
Hosted by UAI Business School

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last decade, innovation has been recognized as a key concept to promote value creation within the firm and subsequently for long-term economic growth. Nevertheless, moving from awareness to action, creating a pro-innovation environment is proving to be an extremely difficult and complex endeavor. There are many challenges associates with being able to develop successful innovation capabilities: creating new competitive spaces, changing a firm's culture, redfining best practices, finding the correct government incentives, developing appropriate financial schemes, to name jut a few. The need to develop a pro-innovation environment is an extremely pressing necessity that results in great challenges for governments, the private sector, and universities.

To be part of this discussion, BALAS invites you to submit papers that address these and related questions that are at the heart of the Santiago - Chile conference theme. In addition to these topics, the BALAS conference welcomes papers related to the business and economic environments in Latin America and the Caribbean in the following tracks:

CONFERENCE THEME TRACKS
The Process of Innovation: Models, Tools, Incentives & Best Practices
Corporate Entrepreneurship
The Economics and Financing of Innovation
Innovation as a Public-Private Endeavor

GENERAL LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS TRACKS
Accounting, Taxation and Management Information and Control Systems
Economic Environment and Regional Integration
Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Human Resource Management
Strategies for Global Competitiveness
Culture, Social and Ethical Issues
Marketing Management
Consumer Behaviour
Corporate Finance
Financial Markets, Investment and Risk Management
Information Technology Management
Supply-Chain and Operations Management
Management Education and Teaching Cases

Programme Chair: Mauricio G. Villena, UAI (mauricio.villena@uai.cl)