Program

Programme will be announced soon.

Main Theme and Sub Themes

Main Theme:

INDUSTRIAL POLICY, TRADE WARS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGICAL, GEOPOLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Sub-Themes: 

• Global Economic Shifts and Their Impact on Industrial Policy: Rethinking Approaches to International Competitiveness, Sustainability and Resilience
• Green Economy, Green Finance and Industrial Development
• The Economics of Climate Change
• Industrialization and Digitalization: Charting New Pathways for Growth
• Big Data and Analytics for Development Economy
• Agentic AI, AI Governance Platforms, Ambient Invisible Intelligence
• Hybrid Computing, Spatial Computing, Energy-Efficient Computing and Their Economic Impact
• AI and Industrial Policy Strategy
• Political, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability: An Incompatible Trio?
• Political Tensions and Sustainable Economic Futures
• Post-Neoliberal World and Economic Development
• Smart Economic Planning for Reconstruction after Conflict
• Global economy: Low Economic Growth, High Inflation, Climate Change, Supply Chain Disruptions

About

The aim of the Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy (SEPIP) Conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners, regulators, and policymakers from around the globe to share results of academic studies, exchange views, share experiences, and discuss fresh ideas on industrial policy, economic planning, and related contemporary tools to support economic development and national competitiveness.

SEPIP is organized by OSTİM Technical University, aims to develop a platform for participants to discuss economic development and the role of industrial policy and planning at national and regional level; to compare old theoretical and practical motivations for national development planning with those emerging in the globalised world economy; to present real-world experiences in industrial policy and planning by international academics with first-hand experience; to discuss new tools and approaches to development such as physical infrastructure planning, industrial policy and cluster policy.

The first SEPIP conference, held on 4 May 2014, attracted great interest. There was a wide range of attendance with international speakers from the USA and Europe to Singapore and Korea, including academicians as well as policymakers and practitioners.

Booklet

Booklet will be shared soon.

Committees

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Dr. Murat Yülek, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ali Akkemik, Fukuoka University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Aylin Ege, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Betül Gür, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Erinç Yeldan, Kadir Has University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Gilberto Santos, Minho University, Portugal
• Prof. Dr. Franco Mosconi, Universite degli Studi di Parma, Italy
• Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bezchinsky, UNSAM
• Prof. Dr. Guillermo Rozenwurcel, UNSAM
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Balcilar, University of New Haven, USA
• Prof. Dr. Kaoru Natsuda, APU Ritsumeikan University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Mustafa Erdoğdu, Marmara University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Mustafa Polat, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ufuk Türen, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Sadık Unay, Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ekrem Erdem, Erciyes University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Travis Taylor, Christopher Newport University, USA
• Prof. Dr. Turan Erol, Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ünsal Sığrı, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Prof. Dr. Yusuf Balcı, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Barış Alpaslan, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Christian S. Otchia, Nagoya University, Japan
• Assoc. Prof. Bahar Erdal, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Nurullah Gür, Medipol University, Turkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Fatih Cemil Özbuğday, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Sandrine Labory, University of Ferrara, Italy
• Dr. Metehan Yağmur, Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye
• Dr. Nathanial Lane, Monash University, Australia
• Dr. Rıza Bayrak, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
• Dr. Sabri Öz, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkiye
• Dr. Serkan Bürken, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Dr. Büşra Ağan, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Dr. Egehan Özkan Alakaş, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Dr. Ünay Tamgaç Tezcan, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkiye
• Dr. Piergiuseppe Fortunato, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Egehan Özkan Alakaş, Academician, Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Dr. Ayşe Atabey Bölük, Academician, Deputy Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Lec. Zehra Sever, Academician, Deputy Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Res. Asst. Seray Kağıtçı Candan, Deputy Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Res. Asst. Batuhan Cicikler, Project Specialist, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Res. Asst. Huzeyfe Erkam Candan, Project Specialist, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Res. Asst. Dr. Şeyda Ok, Project Specialist, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Burak Akıncıoğlu, IT Expert, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye
• Ata Kalay, IT Expert, OSTİM Technical University, Turkiye

Advisory Committee

• Orhan Aydın, President, OSTİM Foundation/OSTİM OIZ
• Prof.Dr. İrfan Suat Günsel, Near East University-Chairman of the Board of Trustees
• İlhami Pektaş, Coordinator, OSTİM ARUS
• Nurettin Özdebir, Chairman, Nuriş A.Ş.
• Mirzahan Hızal, General Manager, Hızal Elektroerozyon L.T.D.
• Mustafa Bozkurt, Chairman, Hidromek A.Ş.
• Mehmet Kaybal, Chairman, Meka Engineering

 

Speakers

Speakers will be announced  soon

Our experts will guide you every time

Important dates are given below, please note them.

DATES                                     DETAILS                                                                

12 September 2025                  Abstract Submission Deadline

29 September 2025                  Notification of acceptance/rejection

06 October 2025                       Power Point Presentation Submission Deadline

14-15 October 2025                  Conference Dates

31 October 2025                       Full Paper Submission Deadline

Publication

Selected papers can be considered for publication at Industrial Policy (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/indpol)

Industrial Policy (ISSN-2757-9840) is the main publishing outlet for research on industrial policy and its impact on society. The IndPol publishes high-quality research on the process of economic and technological development, particularly industrialisation.

Submission

Author Guidelines

• Papers submitted to the conference should be unpublished work and not submitted for presentation or publication elsewhere.
• Paper submissions should be only in English.
• Papers should be submitted by email to sepip2025@ostimteknik.edu.tr in MS Office Word format.
• Please provide an abstract of approximately 500 to 750 words. The abstract should not contain undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
• Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
• Authors should submit a brief biography with the final version of their accepted paper.

Title Page

• The title page should include:
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The title of the paper
• The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
• If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published)
• For authors who are (temporarily) unaffiliated with an official institution, we will only present their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested. However, their emails should still be provided in the title page.
• A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author and other authors
• If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

Body of the Article

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

• Use 12-point Times Roman for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Headings

Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Reference citations

Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

• Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Samuelson 1990).
• This result was later contradicted by Romer and Heshmati (1996).
• This effect has been widely studied (Lee 1991; Hamlin and Jerruti 1974; Allison et al. 2007, 2014a, b).

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work. Order multi-author publications of the same first author alphabetically with respect to second, third, etc. author. Publications of exactly the same author(s) must be ordered chronologically.

• Journal article

Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8

Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be accepted:

Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329

• Article by DOI

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086

• Book

South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

• Book chapter

Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257

• Online document

Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007

• Dissertation

Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see ISSN LTWA. If you are unsure, please use the full journal title.

For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list.

EndNote style (Download zip, 3 kB)

Tables

• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

 

Registration Fees

There is no registration fee for participating in the conference. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee members of SEPIP 2025, experts in their field. Please submit your papers at 

sepip2025.ostimteknik.edu.tr 

Call for Papers

Call for Papers

• You are invited to submit your scientific papers for SEPIP2025.
• Papers should be written in english, the official language of the event.

Deadlines

Please, remember the following important dates:

• Abstract & work in progress papers submission deadline: 12 September 2025. (included)
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: 29 September, 2025.
• Final paper submission deadline: 31 October, 2025 (included)

Guidelines

• Papers submitted to the conference should be unpublished work and not submitted for presentation or publication elsewhere.
• Paper submissions should be only in English.
• Papers should be submitted by email to sepip2025@ostimteknik.edu.tr in MS Office Word format.
• Please provide an abstract of approximately 500 to 750 words. The abstract should not contain undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
• Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
• Authors should submit a brief biography with the final version of their accepted paper.

Contact

• Egehan ÖZKAN ALAKAŞ, Academician, Head of Organization Committee
  egehan.ozkan@ostimteknik.edu.tr
  Tel: 0(312) 386 10 92 Dahili: 1641
• Ayşe ATABEY BÖLÜK, Academician, Deputy Head of Organization Committee
  ayse.atabey@ostimteknik.edu.tr
  Tel: 0(312) 386 10 92
• Zehra SEVER, Academician, Deputy Head of Organization Committee
  zehra.sever@ostimteknik.edu.tr
  Tel: 0(312) 386 10 92
• Seray KAĞITÇI CANDAN, Academician, Deputy Head of Organization Committee
  seray.kagitci@ostimteknik.edu.tr