13th World Congress on Systems and Cybernetics

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(2005), "13th World Congress on Systems and Cybernetics", Kybernetes, Vol. 34 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2005.06734eac.001

13th World Congress on Systems and Cybernetics

13th World Congress on Systems and Cybernetics

Maribor, Slovenia 6-10 July 2005

WOSC – World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics President: Robert Vallée Director-General: Alex M. Andrew Vice-President: Brain H. Rudall (also Director of the N. Wiener Institute of WOSC, Editor-in-Chief of Kybernetes)

In co-operation with:

SDSR – Slovenian Systems Research Society, President: Matjaz Mulej (also first vice-president of IFSR – International Federation for Systems Research)

Theme (Central, but not exclusive): Systemic and cybernetic dealing with innovation

About the central theme

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  The European Union proclaimed in 2000 and confirmed in March 2004 that Europe is lagging behind US and Japan in its socio-economic development because Europe is not innovative and entrepreneurial enough. In documents about promotion of innovation, EU declared that systemic thinking is crucial for innovation. What EU means by systemic thinking, is not specified. But it is specified since 1971 that “innovation is every novelty proven useful by its users”. It is a very complex and poorly researched phenomenon and might make a good topic for many streams of thinking in terms of systems theory and cybernetics and applying it. The 80 per cent of humankind living outside US, Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the four Asian Tigers need new insights into innovation even more.

  Our insight into literature shows that the topic of thinking about innovation in systemic and cybernetic manner has been insufficiently researched to meet the needs of the modern humankind.

  But other topics, which used to be dealt with in previous WOSC Conferences, are also fully welcome.

The Kybernetes Research Award (£350) will be presented to the author(s) of the most out standing paper. The paper will be published in this journal and the author(s) will receive a full one year's subscription to Kybernetes.

Awards will also be made to highly commended contributions made to the Congress.

Further information about the Congress can be obtained from Professor Dr Matjaz Mulaz, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, PO Box 142 (EPF), SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia. Tel: +386 2 22 90 262.