Paper Submission Reminder
ACAC PhD Paper Development Workshop on Innovation
Participant Stipends Supported by the National Science Foundation
Deadline February 18th, 2013
Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference is pleased to announce that it has been informed by the
National Science Foundation that the pre-conference PhD Student Research Development
Workshop (RDW) will be recommended for continued NSF support through 2015. While this is not
a final grant award we are preceding on the assumption that we will be able to deliver the same
support to PhD students whose papers are accepted to the workshop as in 2012.
The RDW is open to PhD students doing research related to competitive advantage with emphasis
given to research focusing on innovation management, technology strategy, new knowledge
search, knowledge management, strategic entrepreneurship, and dynamic capabilities. Submitted
research papers should be targeted to top academic journals in the students relevant field. Papers
may be taken from the students dissertation work, but dissertations are not to be submitted.
Paper submission guidelines are the same as those for the main ACAC conference and will be
found at
http://robinson.gsu.edu/acac/
An outline of the RDW timetable can be found at
http://robinson.gsu.edu/acac/rdw-schedule.html
The PhD workshop is limited to 24 students. Selected students will have all ACAC registration fees
waived. This fee waiver will cover all conference supplies, all lunches Monday through Thursday,
the Monday evening PhD Faculty networking dinner, the Tuesday evening ACAC welcome
Reception and Georgia Tech dinner at the Buckhead Club, the Wednesday evening reception, and
all coffee and refreshment breaks throughout the conference.
PhD students whose innovationfocused papers are accepted for this workshop will also receive a
three night hotel stipend in Atlanta at the conference site for the period of the ACAC PDW and for
the ACAC main conference (the nights May 20, 21, and 22, 2013). This will include buffet
breakfast and Internet access. This benefit is dependent of students obtaining rooms in the ACAC
block. Alternative hotel accommodations will be supported if the block fills at the main conference
hotel.
Solo authored papers are encouraged. Papers with multiple authors are acceptable, but only the
lead PhD student of accepted paper is eligible for grant support under this call. Subsequent
publications of the research submitted to this workshop under a lead author other that the
participating PhD student is inconsistent with the basis for NSF support.
Submission of a paper carries a commitment that, if accepted, the lead PhD student will attend the
ACAC PDW.
ACAC and NSF support does not cover transportation costs to and from Atlanta or the Workshop
site.
Decisions on papers received under this call will be made and sent to authors by the end of March
2012.
The National Science Foundation and ACAC strongly encourage submission of papers in the above
listed areas by women and members of groups underrepresented in the sciences.