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INTERNATIONAL ESSAY COMPETITION “WE ARE AT WAR WITH NATURE, IF WE WIN, WE WILL LOSE”
Inspired by this statement of Canadian astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, Innovation Management and TRIZ Institute organizes an essay competition to raise awareness about a non-anthropocentric, sustainable ecosystem and to receive original, creative, innovative and applicable economic and social policy suggestions.
1) Subject of the Competition:
To discuss the proposition of “we are at war with nature, if we win we will lose” around philosophical, economic and social facts.
2) Conditions for Participation in the Competition:
a) International PhD students and academics can participate in the competition.
b) Each contestant can participate in the competition with only one article.
c) Participation in the competition can be made individually or by writing a joint article as a team consisting of a maximum of two people.
d) The writing language of the article can be English, Turkish and Azerbaijani.
e) Contestants must write articles in which they use their original ideas. Articles must not have been used or published anywhere else before or sent for these purposes.
f) The deadline for contestants to submit their articles to office@imti.az on 20. 11. 2024. Articles submitted after this date will not be evaluated by the jury panel.
g) The top five contestants in the competition will be given a prize * and a certificate of achievement.
h) A certificate of participation will be given to contestants who participated in the competition and submitted articles but did not make it into the top five places.
3) Article format requirements:
a) Article format requirements, writing rules and competition specifications can be accessed on the website www.triz.az.
4) For more information;
Competition General Secretary: Rana Kutvan
e-mail: rkutvan@imti.az
website: www.triz.az
The Format of the Essay Competition
The Title of the Article
(centered horizontally, written with "Single Line Spacing" and "0 pt Spacing" selected from the paragraph menu)
First Author Name Surname*
Second Author Name Surname
Abstract
Abstract Text (written in Times New Roman 10-italic character, with single line spacing and 6 pt spacing before and after the line, with an additional 2.5 cm margin on the right and left sides, and an additional 0.5 cm indent in the first line, up to 200 words).
Keywords: Keyword, Keyword, Keyword (at least 3, at most 5, with only the first letters of the first words capitalized).
JEL Codes: JEL Code, JEL Code (2-4 items).
The Title of Article in English
(centered horizontally, written with "Single Line Spacing" and "0 pt Spacing" selected from the paragraph menu)
Abstract
English Abstract Text (written in Times New Roman 10-italic character, with single line spacing and 6 pt spacing before and after the line, with an additional 2.5 cm margin on the right and left sides, and an additional 0.5 cm indent in the first line, up to 200 words).
Keywords: Keyword, Keyword, Keyword (at least 3, at most 5, with only the first letters of the first words capitalized).
JEL Codes: JEL Code, JEL Code (2-4 items).
The name of the institution where the author responsible for communication works, postcode, district and city isim@universite.edu.tr, Tel.: (123) 456-7890/3568 (e-mail address and phone number)
If any, people and organizations thanked (Footnotes should be written in Times New Roman 8 point, single spaced and justified to both margins).
I. Section Title (aligned to the left margin, bold and in uppercase, separated from the text above by 12 pt, below by 0 pt, and with single line spacing, numbered with Roman numerals like I. II.)
Paragraphs (written with single line spacing and 12 pt spacing before the line).
I.1 Subsection Title (aligned to the left margin, bold and with capitalized first letters, separated from the text above by 12 pt, below by 0 pt, and with single line spacing, numbered like II.1, III.3, IV.3)
Paragraphs (written with single line spacing and 12 pt spacing before the line).
Table 1. Table Title (written in bold after an appropriate expression like Table 1., Table 2a., aligned to the left, with the first letters of words other than conjunctions like "and" capitalized, and written with single line spacing.
Units of Numbers in the Table (in parentheses))
Graph 1. Graph Title (written in bold after an appropriate expression like Graph 1., Graph 2a., aligned to the left, with the first letters of words other than conjunctions like "and" capitalized, and written with single line spacing.
Equations will be written with Microsoft Equation Editor, starting from the left margin, and will be right-aligned with a sequence number.
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REFERENCES
(Follow the format below for books and monographs)
Acemoğlu, D. and S. Johnson, 2023. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, Public Affairs Press.
SBB, 2023. 2023 Investment Program, Ankara, January 2023.
(Follow the format below for edited volumes)
Akçiğit, U. and J.V. Reenen (Eds.), 2023. The Economics of Creative Destruction, New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt, Harvard University Press.
(Follow the format below for articles in edited volumes)
Celasun, M. and D. Rodrik, 1988. “The Turkish Experience with Debt: The Macroeconomic Policy and Performance,” in J. Sachs (Ed.), Developing Country Debt and the World Economy, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
(Follow the format below for journal articles)
(Published article)
Soybilgen, B., E. Yazgan, 2021. “Nowcasting US GDP Using Tree-Based Ensemble Models and Dynamic Factors”, Computational Economics, 57: 387–417.
(Articles accepted but not yet published)
Goel, R.K. and J. Budak, 202*. “Corruption in Transition Economies: Effects of Government Size, Country Size and Economic Reforms,” Journal of Economics and Finance, In Press.
(Follow the format below for working/discussion papers)
Kazdal, A. and S. Gül, 2021. “Nowcasting and Short-term Forecasting Turkish GDP: Factor-MIDAS Approach”, TCMB Working Paper No: 21/11.
(Follow the format below for newspaper articles/columns)
Krugman, P., 2001. “Truth in Advertising,” New York Times, May 31.
(Follow the format below for internet sources)
TCMB, 2023. Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Electronic Data Distribution System (EVDS), http://www.tcmb.gov.tr, Access Date: November 7, 2023.