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The University

Universidade Lusíada de Famalicão and CLEGI (Centro Lusíada de Engenharia e Gestão Industrial) announce the organization of the International Conference on “Managing Services in the Knowledge Economy”, to be held from July 15th to 17th 2009.
Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova Famalicão (ULF) is part of Universidades Lusíada, a group of private Universities located in Lisbon, Porto and Famalicão, and owned by the Minerva Foundation. Universidades Lusíada was founded in the 1980s by Professor António Martins da Cruz, who is their mentor and alma mater.

In the academic year of 2008-9 Universidades Lusíada had around 10000 students, in Lisbon, Porto and Famalicão in 60 first degree courses, 40 second degree courses and 10 PhD courses.

In 2009 at ULF we will celebrate our 20th anniversary. In the academic year of 2008-9 we achieved a record number of 1600 students in first degree courses, in three Faculties (Economics, Engineering, and Architecture). Ministered courses relate to Architecture, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Marketing, Economics and Accountancy. ULF is responsible for the provision of a significant number of training courses for the local community.

 

The Research Centre

CLEGI is a Research Centre devoted to develop a close cooperation and coordination of R&D activities between the two main research areas in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management. It is composed by 16 researchers including 14 PhDs from the areas of Engineering, Management, and Economics. In 2008 CLEGI received the classification of “Very Good” by an International Panel of Evaluators in the Evaluation made by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. ULF also hosts the Observatory of Growth and Sustainability, which is part of the Faculty of Economics.

 

The Place

ULF is located in the hearthland of the Portuguese industrial live, in the district of Braga. Near Famalicao are located two of the most important Portuguese cities (Porto and Braga), as well as a network of dynamic small cities: Guimaraes, Barcelos, Vila do Conde and Povoa do Varzim.

Famalicão is also a new city, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2010.

We are a small school, and we believe that small is better and that small can be best. The belief is based on the premise that quality is the central characteristic of any successful University.

Quite crucially, we believe in the decisively important areas of Human Relations and conviviality, in the educational process and in the Economy: that conviviality is enhanced in small schools, located in small cities, like ours.

The Team

For this conference we have gathered together a team of 24 scholars from the USA, Russia, UK, Finland, France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, Brazil, Autria and Portugal, that will assure the development of 13 streams, in different areas of the topic “Management of Services in the Knowledge Economy”. The following table presents the leaders of each of these streams:

 

Scientific Area	Stream Leaders	University
Banking	Rosário Cabrita	Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Portugal
Human Resource Development	Gary Mc Lean	Texas A&M University - USA
Intangible HEROs: Managing IC in Universities and Research Organizations: unlocking Universities "hidden success factors"	Campbell Warden Susana Elena-Perez	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias - Spain European Commission - Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
Intellectual Capital	Aino Kianto Agnieta Pretorius	Lappeenranta University of Technology - Finland Tshwane University of Technology - South Africa
Intellectual Property	Ludmila Striukova Thierry Rayna	University College London - United Kingdom London Metropolitan University - United Kingdom
International Economics	Cristina de Abreu Joaquim Ramos Silva	UL Famalicão - Portugal ISEG - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa - Portugal
Knowledge Management	Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro Carolina López-Nicolás	Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena - Spain Universidad de Murcia - Spain
Law	José Caramelo Gomes Francisco Castelo Branco	UL Famalicão - Portugal UL Porto - Portugal
Logistics	Gaby Neumann Helmut Zsifkovits	Magdeburg Univerisity - Germany University of Leoben - Austria
National Cases	Allan Barbosa Katja Pook	Universidade Federal Minas Gerais - Brazil Pook Perspectives, Karlsruhe - Germany
Public Policies	Eduardo Tomé Patricia Ordonez Pablos	UL Famalicão - Portugal University of Oviedo - Spain
Sustainability	Elizabeth Real João Joanaz de Melo	UL Famalicão - Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Portugal
Tourism	Vera Molchanova Felipa Reis	Sochi Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Russia Open University - Portugal

 

For all these reasons, we think it makes sense to organize the 2009 MSKE Conference in our University.

Given the above introduction, and the experience of the Team Members, we invite you to this challenge, the 2009 MSKE Conference in our University.

Apart from the more scientific view, you will be able to spend some days enjoying Portuguese hospitality, history, food and climate: all served at relatively low prices!

Come and enjoy yourself with us!