The Sixth Annual Edition of the International Conference “Research, Production and Management” is a place for researchers, academics, and practitioners alike to come together and share their knowledge, research and best practices. The conference is open to all areas of business management and entrepreneurship, including but not limited to: Management, Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management, Information Technology Management, Operations Management, Information Systems, Economics, Electronic Commerce, etc.
The Sixth Annual Edition of the International Conference “Research, Production and Management” it will be mainly focused on the market power of innovative firms created by very young entrepreneurs: how can young people (such as students) break the rules of the market by defeating more traditional competitors with innovative ideas and new IT-based marketing tools? What is the real market power of student entrepreneurship? How can higher education best stimulate the creation of firms emanating from young and smart minds in colleges and universities? How are brain circulation and social networking helping young people to disseminate their ideas worldwide? How can young people conceive, develop and exchange entrepreneurial ideas at the maximum speed and with the highest financial return? Why are more and more young people deciding to become entrepreneurs? Can the student corporation (that is, a firm entirely composed of young students) always be regarded as a kind of ‘knowledge-intensive factory’?
The Conference is accredited by the AIDEA Italian Scientific Society. The call for papers/abstracts is now open.

The conference will be held on Friday 26th October 2012 at Congress Hall “Parthenope” (“Federico II” University), starting from 9.30 a.m. and lasting at 6 p.m.. The poster session will be starting at 11 a.m.
The full address is Via Parthenope 36, Naples (Italy)
(Please look at http://www.centrocongressi.unina.it/sala_partenope.php)

The conference will continue on Saturday 27th October 2012 at the Congress Hall “Sala degli Angeli” of the Second University of Naples, starting from 9.30 with the Round Table and lasting at 1.30 p.m.
The full address is Via Costantinopoli 16 (Naples), “Complesso Sant’Andrea delle Dame”, Second University of Naples.

Participants are allowed to have full and free of charge access to the Open Ceremony Day on Monday 22nd October 2012.



A selection of the best full papers accepted for the conference will be published in a special issue of:

International Journal of Technology Management (Inderscience)
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (Inderscience)
Journal of the Knowledge Economy (Springer)
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Springer)