CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN DIGITAL ECONOMY: SPBPU IDE-2021 October 14–15, 2021, Saint Petersburg, Russia The Graduate School of Industrial Economics (GSIE) of Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (CSID) of Universitas Indonesia (UI) present the annual International Scientific Conference on Innovations in the Digital Economy: SPBPU IDE-2021. The spread of Covid-19 has become a main factor affecting the global economy as well as boosting the development of industry 4.0 and the digital economy. On the one hand, Covid-19 brought severe negative effects for people, companies and national economies. On the other, it enhanced the spread of digital technologies, lessening those effects and minimising their damage. It has also supported the development of industry 4.0 and the digital economy, as certain types of technology became increasingly common for more people and companies. Therefore, the conference aims to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of innovations in the digital economy and their consequences for modern economies. We believe that our conference’s community is crucial to disseminating the most recent advances and promoting new international collaborations. Join us on 14–15 October 2021! 1. TOPICS ● Economic efficiency and the social consequences of implementing digital innovations ● Regional innovation systems and clusters as drivers of economic growth during the Fourth Industrial Revolution ● Industrial, service and agricultural digitalisation ● Responses of the educational system and labour market to digital-driven changes in the economic system ● Digital transformation in the government sector ● Digital transformation in the financial sector 2. IMPORTANT DATES 1 August – Paper submission deadline 30 August – Deadline for author registration 30 September – Deadline for signing the licensing agreement and sending a camera- ready copy 3. CONFERENCE VENUE Due to the possibility of continued Covid-19 restrictions, the conference will be held both virtually and on campus. Virtual attendance will be organised using special software. The conference will be held at SPbPU’s Scientific – Research Building, located at 29 Polytechnicheskaya Street (Metro Polytechnicheskaya), 195251, Saint Petersburg, Russia. This modern congress centre, featuring comfortable halls equipped with everything necessary for conferences and other events, is located in the heart of the university campus in northern St. Petersburg within easy walking distance of the Polytechnicheskaya Metro station. St. Petersburg was named Europe’s Best Tourist Destination of the Year 2017, Europe’s Leading Heritage Destination 2018 and Europe’s Leading Cruise Destination 2018 at the World Travel Awards. We recommend that conference participants book hotels in the city centre near the red Metro line (it takes about 20–30 minutes to reach the venue by metro from the city centre). You may also choose hotels that are within walking distance of the venue. CONFERENCE PARTNERS ● Faculty of Engineering, UI ● Institute for Problems of Regional Economics, RAS ● Tallinn University of Technology ● CSID, UI ● Laboratory Industrial Systems for Streaming Data Processing, SPbPU ● Graduate School of Business and Management, SPbPU ● Centre of Innovation and Technology Transfer of the Academy of Economic Studies, Moldova University, Moldova ● Graduate School of Service and Trade, SPbPU ● Brandenburg University of Technology ● Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education, Bryansk State Engineering Technological University ● Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education, Dagestan State University ● Tajik State Finance and Economics University 4. PAPER SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION ● Conference management system Registrants are invited to submit their papers for review through the EasyChair manager system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spbpuide2021. Please note: you must register for the conference through EasyChair to be considered for participation. Papers from anyone who has not registered to attend the conference will not be considered. ● General guidelines When using the EasyChair article submitting system, authors indicate their preferred option for publishing materials: - conference proceeding series (ACM, Scopus) - International Journal of Technology (IJTech) (Scopus, Q2) - special issue of Energies (MDPI, Scopus, Q2) - Sustainable Development and Engineering Economics (SDEE) The subsequent process of work changes depending on the option chosen. Articles submitted for the conference proceeding series go through a two-stage reviewing process in the EasyChair system. After an article successfully passes the review, the conference manager will inform the authors of its acceptance. The articles submitted for IJTech undergo a two-stage review. The first stage is carried out in the EasyChair system, and the process is completed by programme committee members and guest reviewers. Based on the results of the first reviewing stage, a package of recommended articles will be sent to the editorial board of the journal. At the second stage, IJTech’s editorial board will review the submitted materials and accept or reject articles for publication. The articles submitted for Energies go through a two-stage review. The first stage is carried out in the EasyChair system and based on checking the subject matter and structure of the article. After the first stage, the conference manager will send detailed instructions to authors about the process of uploading the article to the online system of MDPI, which will carry out the second stage of work with the authors’ materials (scientific review, etc.). The final decision on accepting an article for Energies will be made by the editorial board after further review. The articles submitted for SDEE undergo a two-stage review. The first stage in EasyChair comprises a technical review and verification that the subject matter of the article reflects the journal’s scientific direction. After the first stage, the conference manager will send detailed instructions to authors about the process of uploading the article to the online system of SDEE, which will carry out the second stage of work with the authors’ materials (scientific review, etc.). ● Manuscript structure The manuscript should follow the IMRaD format: ● title ● authors ● keywords ● abstract ● introduction ● materials and methods ● results ● discussion ● conclusion ● acknowledgments ● references ● Origin, motivation and contribution The submitted papers should be original, previously unpublished research manuscripts that are not under consideration for publication in any other conference proceedings (journal, etc.). The papers should relate to the main topic and sub-topics of the conference and should present novel research results of international interest. We publish only papers written in good English. All papers are thoroughly checked for plagiarism. ● Review process Each paper is subject to a twofold, double-blind peer review. The editor of the proceedings takes a decision based on the results of at least two reviews. In addition, each paper passes a plagiarism check (using iThenticate), formal requirements check and English language check. A paper is accepted only when it successfully passes all the checks and when all the reviewers’ comments are addressed. We ask authors to highlight all the changes that are made to improve their papers in response to the reviewers’ comments. In addition, please provide in a separate file a list of the reviewers’ comments and your replies to those comments (where and how you have improved your paper). This will greatly aid the review process, making it shorter and more effective. ● Proceedings volume by ACM Submissions will be peer reviewed by conference committees. Accepted papers will be published in International Conference Proceedings Series by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). ISBN: 978-1-4503-8694-4. Approximate volume of the proceedings paper is between 4000 and 6000 words. The conference proceeding series for 2019 and 2020 were successfully published and indexed in Scopus. ● Special issue of IJTech After the review process, papers may be recommended for publication in IJTech (Scopus, Q2): https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/. The theme of the special issue corresponds to the conference topics. Paper should be presented at the conference. The subject areas of the journal include business, management and accounting (management of technology and innovation, strategy and management) and engineering (miscellaneous). IJTech is currently indexed in Google Scholar, DOAJ, EBSCO, GISI, Index Copernicus, Scopus, SCImago, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) Thomson Reuters and the Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI). It has been accepted for coverage in selected Elsevier product(s) and is a member of CrossRef. If the authors agree to send their papers for review to the journal’s editorial board, the conference managers will include their papers in a package of the best selected papers. IJTech’s editorial board will review these and select up to 20 of the best papers, which will be published in special issues of the journal in November– December 2021. The remaining papers will be returned to the authors. After the conclusion of SPBPU IDE-2020 (conference 2), special issues of IJTech were published (Volume 11, Number 6, Number 8) and indexed in Scopus (Q2). ●