2011 BALAS Annual Conference

Value Creation through Innovation:
Latin America's Unavoidable Challenge
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 associated with being able to develop successful innovation capabilities: creating new competitive spaces, changing a firm's culture, redefining best practices, finding the correct government incentives, developing appropriate financial schemes, to name just 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 & Family Business
Human Resource Management
Strategies for Global Competitiveness
Culture, Social, and Ethical Issues
Marketing Management
Consumer Behavior
Corporate Finance
Financial Markets, Investment and Risk Management
Information Technology Management
Supply‐Chain and Operations Management
Management Education and Teaching Cases

For all tracks, papers related to the conference theme are especially welcome.

For submission, registration, and local information please go to: http://www.balas.org
Program Chair: Mauricio G. Villena, UAI (mauricio.villena@uai.cl)