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The list of accepted abstracts as of May 01, 2012, based on the reviewers’ feedback received, can be found here.

The abstract submission deadline has been extended until Thursday, 19 April 2012, due to numerous requests from candidate authors.

ICOVACS 2012 (International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability) is the fifth of conference series that aims to bring academic, industry and government personnel from various countries together over a three-day period in December to present and discuss the next frontier for product design, branding and logistics as a leadership strategy in a global market.

The first ICOVACS conference was held in Izmir, Turkey in 2008 with the theme “Integrating Design, Logistics and Branding for Sustainable Value Creation. ICOVACS conferences were then held in Louisville, Kentucky (2009), Valencia, Spain (2010) and Leuven, Belgium (2011). Detailed information about the history can be found here.

This year, ICOVACS 2012 will be held in her hometown, Izmir, Turkey, by the organization of Izmir University of Economics. 2012 theme of the conference is “Value Chain Sustainability through Innovation and Design”. As usual, we are inviting papers that particularly focus on the integration of design, logistics and branding, now from a perspective of innovation for the development of sustainable value chains. You can find more about the theme and topics here.