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Monday, 21 September 2009 19:53
Please note that there are some minor changes in the programme.
 

 

Conference Programme

 

11.00-13.00, Thursday, 24 September, 2009

 

Cross-Border Trade vs. Commercial Presence                       Zsolnay 2

International Movement of Services – The Forms and Importance for European Market (Comparative Analysis of Selected Countries)

Barbara Iwankiewicz-Rak, Anetta Pukas and Sylwia Wrona, Wroclaw University of Economics Institute of Marketing, Poland

Measuring and modelling services activities, trade and investment in the modern economy:  the conceptual challenges.

Julian Arkell, International Trade and Services Policy, Spain

Modes of Entry or Modes of relationship for international services?

Pierre-Yves Leo & Jean Philippe, Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III University, France

Crossing boarders: complementarity and substitution between trade and FDI in the service sector

Stefano Visintin, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain

 

Innovation in health care services I.      Zsolnay 3     

Long-term care services in Spain: evolution and future prospects

José A. Camacho and Mercedes Rodriguez, University of Granada, Spain

Dependent Care Services: A Methodological Proposal for Budgetary Impact Analysis

José Luis Navarro Espirages, University of Granada  and Elisa Hernandez Torres, University Hospital Virgen De Las Nieves, Spain

A model of social agency for an integrated action against social exclusion

Simone Cerlini and Elena Ragazzi, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Richerche, Italy

The hospital-sector in the Ruhrgebiet – how quick is the restructuring compared to better-off agglomerations in Western Germany?

Markus Scheuer, RWI Essen, Germany

 

General approach to innovation in services               Pallace

Innovation in Services: Proposal of a Research Instrument

Cristina Castro-Lucas; Pedro Meneses, University of Brasília, Brazil

Innovation Ability and Innovation Occupation in the German Service Industry

Sebastian A. Moebus, European Business School, Germany

Managing Service Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Practitioners on Use and Utility of Structured Methods and Tools

Sebastian Wegener, Andreas Neus and Peter Schulteß, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany

Shifting the lever from closed to open: Rethinking the service development process by using methods of open innovation

Alexander Vossen and Dennis Hilgers, RWTH Aachen University, Germany


 

Socio-economic aspects of services innovation       Board

Evolving services in evolving places: Gentrification, power and services dynamics in three cultural districts

Pedro Costa, DINÂMIA / ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Portugal

Démocratie technologique et innovation dans les services: une analyse sociotechnique de la définition de norme de télévision numérique au Brésil

Sayonara Leal and Eduardo R. Vargas, University of Brasilia, Brazil

 

Regional aspects of services innovation

Like a bridge over troubled water. Transferring knowledge in distressed regions: the case of IMAST

Francesco Izzo and Barbara Masiello, University of Naples II, Italy

Arts graduates and regional impact - the case of West Sweden

 Evelina Wahlqvist, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The spatial organisation and the efficiency of the service sector in Mexico and economic development.

Alejandra Trejo University of Coahuila, Mexico,

Profiling U.S. Metropolitan Areas by their Social Research Networks

Deborah Strumsky and Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States

 


14.00-15.40       Thursday, 24 September, 2009

 

Services in transition countries in the financial crisis  Zsolnay 1

 

The Intermediate Consumption of Services. An Exploratory Survey Among Romanian Enterprises

Laurentiu Tachiciu, Vasile Dinu and Iacob Kerbalek, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Exposure of the Romanian services sector considering their current structure and global financial crisis

Nela Popescu, Roxana Nae and Mihaela Moise, Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Trust variation in the dynamics of the relationships between a professional service provider and a CORPORATE client

Liudmila Bagdoniene and Rimante Hopeniene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

An Analysis of Multiplier Coefficients in Service Sectors of Turkey

 Necla Ayas, Hasan Vergil and Hamza Çeştepe, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Turkey

 

Trade in services     Zsolnay 2

 

Services and the Single Market

Marcel Canoy, ECORYS, TILEC, Netherlands and Peter M. Smith, DG Internal Market and Services, Belgium

Estimating the International Competitiveness of Services Trade: A Central and Eastern European Perspective

Ana Bobirca, Cristiana Cristureanu, Paul-Gabriel Miclaus, Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

International trade in services and the services negotiations in the European Union

Elsa Mora, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina and Luis Rubalcaba, University of Alcalá, Spain

Effects of Changes in Service Trade on Capital Intensity: An Input-Output Analysis for Turkey

Hamza Çestepe, Hasan Vergil and  Necla Aya, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Turkey

Determinants of Export Behaviour of German Business Services Companies

Alexander Vogel, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany

 

Innovation in health care services II.     Zsolnay 3

 

Public Private Partnerships for Healthcare Delivery in India: Assessing Efficiency for Appropriate Health Policies

Udita Taneja and Bharti Birla, GGS Indraprastha University, India

Performance Management of the Service Relationship:
The example of the service relationship of a Health-care professional – CPAM

M. Jougleux, L. Bancel-Charensol, P. Codello-Guijarro, Université Paris-Est

Opportunities of Lithuanian resorts spa and wellness services face-to-face to the challenges of the new economy

Neringa Langvinienė and Jurgita Sekliuckienė, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

State or the market in the provision of health services in Sub Saharan Africa: a crisis of faith 

Mariri Tendai and Chipunza C, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

 

Managing service innovations    Pallace

Les sociétés d’assurance mutuelles sont-elles toujours mutualistes ?

Nicole MAY, Université Paris Est, France

Managing Service Innovations with an Idea Ontology

Christoph Riedl, Norman May, Jan Finzen, Stephan Stathel, TorstenLeidig, Viktor Kaufman and Roxana Belecheanu, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany

Innovation patterns and networks in Spanish service sector. Empirical results and policy implications

Alexandre Trigo and Xavier Vence, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Innovation dans les services et relation avec les compétences organisationnelles et individuelles : le cas du conseil financier dans une banque brésilienne

Céssia F. Figueiredo, and Eduardo R. Vargas, University of Brasilia, Brazil

 

Knowledge intensive services     Board

 

Standards for T-KIBS service innovations – A case study in the German Machine and Plant construction industry

Nadine Blinn, University of Hamburg, Axel Mangelsdorf, Berlin Technical University, Markus Nüttgens and Paul Wakke, Germany

Variety in the Knowledge base of Business Service sectors

Davide Consoli, University of Manchester  and Dioni Elche Hortelano, University of Castilla La-Mancha 

Knowledge-intensive business services offered by technology transfer organizations

Réjean Landry, Nabil Amara, Jean-Samuel Cloutier and Norrin Halilem, Laval University, Canada

Are knowledge intensive business services so “hard” innovators? Some insights using Spanish micro data 

 Mercedes Rodriguez and José A. Camacho, University of Granada, Spain

 

Services and customers    Metropol 2

 

Implementation and Effectiveness of Strategic Actions Used to Reduce Customer Variability

Ching-Chow Yang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Concevoir le travail du client : quels enjeux pour l’innovation dans les services ?

Marianne Abramovici et L. Bancel-Charensol,  Université Paris Est, France

Productivity management for customer solutions – Towards a performance management system for efficient service value networks

Jörg Becker, Daniel Beverungen, Nadine Blinn, Ralf Knackstedt, Markus Nüttgens and Oliver Thomas, University of Münster, Germany

Tariff-Choice Anomalies in Optional Tariffs – An Empirical Study in the Cellular Mobile Industry

Sven Heidenreich, Katrin Talke and Philipp Temmel, European Business School, Germany


16.00-18.00       Thursday, 24 September, 2009

 

Services in emerging countries and regions   Zsolnay 1

 

Development of the services sector in Poland

Joanna Stefaniak, University of Gdańsk, Poland

The Evolving Role of Services in the Detroit Regional Economy: Policy Implications for an Economy in Transition

Ellen D. Harpel, Business Development Advisors, United Sates

Between Earning and Caring: Ukrainian women in “global care
economy”

Alissa V. Tolstokorova,  International School for Equal Opportunities, Ukraine

Regulation and planning of retail spaces on the emerging markets: Neoliberal schemes for urban restructuring?

Erika Nagy, Centre for Regional Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

 

Foreign direct investment in services     Zsolnay 2

 

Inward FDI in advanced services

Brita Hermelin, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden

Failed versus Surviving Service Firms: Understanding the Dynamics of South Asian Service firms established in Birmingham, UK.

Sunita Dewitt, John R. Bryson and Michael Taylor , University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The growing significance of Ireland as a centre for internationally traded business services

Seamus Grimes and Patrick Collins Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Services OFDI: the case of Hungary

Katalin Antalóczy and Magdolna Sass, Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

 

Public and private services I.       Zsolnay 3

 

To be (public), or not to be: is that the question for the Italian water industry?

Tiziana Caliman and Paolo Nardi, Università Bocconi, Italy

Network governance and evaluation in public services: A bibliometric literature review

Dario Cavenago, Laura Mariani, Benedetta Trivellato University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

Entrepreneurial marketing in thermal sector: a comparison between private and private/public companies

Vera Antunes, Helena Alves and Ricardo Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Les PPP hybrides en Europe centrale et leur régulation.

Cathy Zadra-Veil, Université Paris, France


Pathes of innovation in services              Pallace

 

Internal and External Determinants of Innovation Capability in Portuguese Services Firms: A Logit Approach

Maria Jose Silva, Emerson Mainardes, Mario Raposo and Gastão Sousa, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Cultural service innovation as a tool for regional development in peripheral communities.

Ross Nelson, Patrik Ström, Jonas Bjälesjö, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The potential Role of “Design for All” in the Age of Demographic Change

Markus Scheuer, RWI, Malte Klein-Luyten, IDZ, Ingrid Krauß, IDZ, Sibylle Meyer, sibis, Germany

Une analyse sociotechnique du processus de dissémination des innovations dans les services publics brésiliens

Eduardo R. Vargas and Jeanne B. Pereira, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Job Quality, Job Satisfaction and Services in Spain

Carlos Iglesias-Fernández, Raquel Llorente-Heras and Diego Dueñas-Fernández, Institute for Economic and Social Analysis, Spain

 

Knowlege intesive services II       Board

 

Innovation cooperation within knowledge intensive business services: with whom and from where?

David Doloreux, University of Ottawa, Canada

IP strategies in service businesses

Seliina Päällysaho and Jari Kuusisto, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Implications of the organisation and internationalisation of knowledge-intensive services on innovation          

Gunter Lay, Marcus Schröter, Thomas Stahlecker, Fraunhofer Inst. Systems and Innovation Research, Germany

Changing Georgraphy of British Knowledge Intensive Services

Maja Savic, Birkbeck College University of London, United kingdom

 

Services innovation and enterprises                  Metropol 2

 

Entrepreneurial Activity and Efficiency in Service Companies

Antonio García-Tabuenca, José L. Crespo-Espert and Federico Pablo-Martí, Universidad de Alcala, Spain

Firm organisations, networks and management practises in the global economy. A Nordic perspective.

Grete Rusten, University of Bergen, Norway

A Framework for Service Quality Deployment

Shuki Dror and Yafit Sukenik , ORT Braude College, Israel

Le problème de diffusion d’une innovation dans le service de paiement: le Cas de moneo en france

Helmi Hamdi, Université Paul Cézanne, France


 9.00-11.00        Friday, 25 September, 2009

 

The role of services under the circumstances of the world financial crisis           Zsolnay 1

 

Services and the Global Economic Downturn

William B.Beyers,  University of Washington, United States

Operational Excellence in Financial Service Companies

Ronald Gleich and Luise Pauline Sommer, European Business School, German

Beyond the Distractions and Optimism of the Immediate: Identifying and Understanding the Drivers of Local Growth in Resilient Regional Economies

John R. Bryson and Michael Taylor, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Failed Firms, Defaulting Firms, Access to Finance and the Credit Crunch

John R. Bryson, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

 

Internalization of services             Zsolnay 2

The transition country China: A challenge for the internationalisation of services

Robert Schmitt, Sven Schumacher and Carsten Scharrenberg, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany

Préférence et choix du consommateur pour des services « importés »:  Une approche par « l’exotisme » du service

Juliette Andeme, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France

An Empirical Investigation of Spillover Effects of FDI in Services Sectors: Evidence from China and India

Yin Feng, Shanghai University, China

La Délocalisation des Activités de Services informatiques: Une analyse du couplage spécificités de services et caractéristiques des Pays Emergents

Arbia Chatmi et Karim Elasri, DEFI, France

 

Public and private services II       Zsolnay 3

A relationship approach to higher education stakeholders management

Helena Alves, Emerson Wagner Mainardes and Mário Raposo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

The impact of Revenue Management strategies on the Consumer Price Index in transportation services, the case of private toll highways in France.

Damien Broussolle, University of Strasbourg, France

Les interactions entre secteur public et secteur privé dans le domaine de la santé en France : le cas des réseaux de santé dans le nouveau contexte de création des ARS (Agences Régionales de Santé).

Christian Bourret and Claudie Meyer, Université Paris-Est, France

L’impact de libéralisation des marchés, d’une logique d’usager à celle de client

Pavie Xavier, ESSEC Business school, France

Public-Private Partnership and Regional Productivity in the United Kingdom

José Luis Navarro Espigares, University of Granada  José Aureliano Martín Segura and Elisa Hernández Torres, University hospital Virgen De Las Nieves, Spain


Cross disciplinary approach of services innovation              Pallace

 

Institutionalize the invisible – making organizational knowledge available using Web 2.0 technologies.

Alexander Schletz and Florian Kicherer, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany

Can Web 2.0 support Decision-Making Activities in Public Services? An Investigation in Public Services 2.0

Roberto Boselli, Mirko Cesarini and Mario Mezzanzanica, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy

The significance of loose coupling for the innovativeness of service firms – Thinking beyond ‘traditional’ relationships

Thorben Schmidt, European Business School, Germany

The Innovation Refrigerator: A methodology for keeping ideas fresh until the time is right

Robert Kern and Andreas Neus, University of Karlsruhe,

 

Services and manufacturing I.     Board

 

Is there still a Gap in Services in Germany?

Roland Döhrn, RWI and Markus Scheuer, RWI, Germany           

An analysis of Taiwan’s strategy on service innovation development through industrial initiatives

Eldon Y. Li,  and Paul T. Tseng,  National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Productization of services - What, why and how?

Katriina Valminen  Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Locus of service innovation in developing outsourced industrial services

Pirjo Yli-Viitala and Jari Kuusisto, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

 

11.00-13.00       Friday, 25 September, 2009

 

Services Innovation in Public-private partnership      Zsolnay 1

 

The spatial determinants of specialisation in business services in the EU 27 regions

Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona, SPRU, France

Service innovation as bricolage: an experiment with practice based service development in home help for old people

Lars Fuglsang,and Flemming Sørensen, Roskilde University, Denmark

Private citizens governance in a Public space: the case of the Agorà Association

Sabrina Vezzani, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Quand le gouvernement est le marché: achats gouvernementaux et innovations dans les services de logiciels

Marina F. Moreira and Eduardo R. Vargas,  University of Brasilia, Brazil

Offshoring and outsourcing of services             Zsolnay 2

 

Offshore outsourcing and offshoring of business services to Hungary: facts, attracting factors and impacts

Magdolna Sass, Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Models and paths of internationalization in KIBS

Marja Toivonen, Tiina Tuominen, Anssi Smedlund and Irma Patala, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Efficiency and the Global Sourcing of Services by Canadian Industry

C. Michael Wernerheim, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Central and Eastern Europe in the global services offshoring market during the pre- and post-crisis environment: evidence from the trade and location statistics

Zoltán Gál, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Regional Studies, University of Kaposvár Faculty of Economics, Hungary

 

Regional aspects of public-private services    Zsolnay 3

 

Stratégies de développement tertiaire des villes françaises

 Pierre-Yves Leo, Marie-Christine Monnoyer, University of Toulouse and Jean Philippe, Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III University, France

Les Services Comme Moteur du Développement Régional : A L’exemple De La Sante

Louis-M. Boulianne, EPFL, Switzerland

Les services de proximité à la personne en milieu rural : un enjeu de cohésion territoriale

José Afonso Teixeira, e-GEO-Centro Est. Geografia Planeamento Regional, Portugal

 

Innovation in different services sectors             Palace

 

Do freight transport firms innovate?

Corinne Blanquart and Antje Burmeister,  INRETS, France

Speaking words of wisdom: A survey of innovation intermediaries’ services for SMEs.

Barbara Masiello, University of Naples II,  Cristina Canoro, University Parthenope, Gaia Greco, University Federico II,  and Francesco Izzo, University of Naples II, Italy

Exploring the Dynamics and Performance Outcomes of Hotel Innovation

Jan Mattson and Francina Orfila-Sintes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

An interpretation process of standards as an innovation process in service subsidiaries: The case of Multinational Hotel Groups

Sawitree Sutthijakra, Dhurakij Pundit University, Thailand

 

Services and manufacturing II.               Board

 

Revisiting the concept of R&D throughout manufacturing: reflections of hospital services in Brazil

Cariza T. Bohrer and Eduardo R. Vargas, University of Brasilia, Brazil

The development of information-based services as a value added for durable goods. A case study.

Walter Ganz and Michele Pasinetti, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Germany

Systems Thinking for Call Centre Service Operations: Implications for Affective Commitment in Manufacturing Enterprises

Ayham Jaaron and Chris Backhouse, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Revenue Creation: Business models for product-related services in international markets – the case of Zwick GmbH & Co. KG

Daniel Zähringer, Knut Blind and Alexander Schletz Fraunhofer IAO, Germany,

Thursday, 24 September

 

9.00 – 10.30       Opening and key note speech at the RESER-Servppin Conference.

                         Peter Daniels.

11.10 – 13.00      Servppin track in the RESER/Servppin Conference:

                         Service innovation and innovation networks Session 1.

                         Chair Faiz Gallouj (WP2&WP3)

          1.1          Innovation gap, performance gap and policy gap in the service economy WP2

                         Faridah Djellal, Faiz Gallouj 

                     1.2          The performance of service innovation: peculiarities and explanatory factors in Europe          WP2

                         Luis Rubalcaba, Jorge Gallego

          1.3.         A taxonomy of Public Private Innovation Networks in Services      WP3

                         Andreas Pyka, Benjamin Schon

 

14.00 – 15.45  Servppin track in the RESER/Servppin Conference:

                          Public-private service innovation networks in Health Session 2.

                         Chair: Paul Windrum

          2.1       The impact of public-private innovation networks (SERVPPINs) on public innovation in health: explorative cases         WP4

                         Lars Fuglsang

          2.2       Implementation and Embedding of Capacity Planning Processes: the drive for organisational efficiency, service improvement and cultural change                     WP4

                      Lawrence Green

          2.3       Public-Private Partnership Innovation: A case Study in the French Health Care Sector       WP4

                      Celine Merlin Brogniart

2.4               The diffusion of innovation in public-private networks, top-down, bottom-up or horizontal learning?                                                   WP4

                      Rolf Ronning

 

16.10 – 18.00  Servppin track in the RESER/Servppin Conference:

                         Public-private service innovation networks in KIS Session 3.

                         Chair: Jon Sundbo

          3.1.      Public-private innovative networks in service: Does entrepreneurship matter?       WP5

                      Jon Sundbo

          3.2.      Knowledge Intensive Services for Private-Public Innovation Networks in Tourism: The Case of CICtourgune.                WP5

                      Maria Beatriz Plaza, Ana Maria Gonzalez, Catalina Gavez

          3.3.      The dynamics of Public-Private Partnerships in Knowledge intensive services: coproduction of lock-in?             WP5

Pierre Labarthe

 

Friday, 25 September

 

9.00 – 10.50       Servppin track in RESER/Servppin Conference:

The contribution of services to European growth Session 4

Chair: Luis Rubalcaba

4.1.      Growth and productivity in the service sector. Conventional and current explanations     WP1

           Efficiency and productivity in service sector. Public versus private services

           Andrés Maroto

4.2.      Impact assessment of private and public services in Europe           WP1

           Gisela Di Meglio, Metka Stare, Andrés Maroto, Luis Rubalcaba

4.3.      The new service economy in Europe: new evidence and challenges                 WP1

           Luis Rubalcaba, Gisela Di Meglio and Andreas Pyka

4.4.      Explaining the Growth of Private and Public Services in the New Member States    WP1

           Metka Stare, Andreja Jaklic

4.5.             Demand and Technology Contribution to Structural Change and Tertiarisation: An Input-Output Structural Decomposition Analysis     WP1

           Maria Savona, Andrés Lorentz

 

11.10 – 13.00  Servppin track in the RESER/Servppin Conference+A93:

                     Across sector view of public-private service innovation networs   Session 5

Chair: Matthias Weber         Cross-sector session

5.1.      A multi-agent framework of public-private innovation networks in services & its application to ServPPIN case studies   WP2,3,4

           Paul Windrum

5.2.      The Introduction of Public Access Defibrillation in Austria    WP4

           Doris Schartinger

5.3.      ITS Vienna Region – a dynamic intermodal traffic information service for the Vienna Region  WP6

           Barbara Heller-Schuh

5.4.      Innovation potential of public private cooperation in knowledge intensive services- A preliminary assessment of case studies in Slovenia WP5

           Maja Bucar, Metka Stare, Andreja Jaklic

 

14.00-17.15      Servppin track in RESER/Servppin Conference: Session 6

PANEL SESSION-RESER-SERVPPIN ROUND TABLE: INNOVATIVE RESPONSES OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SERVICES TO CRISIS

·Norman Rose, Chairman of the European Business Services Round Table

·Domenico Rossetti, European Commission: „European Research on Services”

·Ronald Mackay, European Commission: "Impact of the crisis on the real economy"

·Walter Ganz, Frauenhofer Institute: "New readiness for Strategic Alliances between public and private entities in Germany?"

·Luis Rubalcaba, ServPPIN coordinator: “Innovation and Services: What role for networking?

·Tivadar Lippényi, Vice President of the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology: “Business or government duty? The system of innovation services”

 

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Welcome to the

XIX. INTERNATIONAL RESER CONFERENCE

"PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SERVICES IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY"

September 24th-26th 2009, Budapest, Hungary

 

Kopint-Tárki Institute of Economic Research Ltd. has been honored to organize the XIXth RESER (European Association for REsearch on SErvices) Conference. The RESER conference has become the annual platform and meeting place for researchers and policy makers in the field of services. The RESER and Kopint-Tárki Ltd. warmly thank all participants and partners in cooperation for making it possible to arrange the conference in Budapest, Hungary.

Keynote lecture by Professor Peter W. Daniels, University of Birmingham, the winner of RESER 2009 Award for lifetime achievement and contribution to the field of economic geography of services.

For more information on major topics of the conference please see Call for papers.

Preliminary program is available. 

The deadline for the submission of the final texts has been extended till the 6th of September, 2009.