The Sixth Quality Conference in the Middle East to be held in Dubai from 30th January to 2ⁿd February 2011 under the umbrella of the HBMeU 2012 Annual Congress, is recognized amongst the world top 5 conferences in the Quality Management discipline. This year’s theme : Innovation Based Competitiveness and Business Excellence” has been crafted to address the recent recession and economic down turn. The topic is timely as innovation is widely quoted as “engine for the economy”.

The QC6 Technical Committee invites submissions for full papers, case studies, poster presentations and presentations to student track.

1. Excellence based Competition, Excellence based Innovation, Innovation based Competitiveness
2. TQM and Radical Innovation; Innovation System in Knowledge Based Society; Open and closed Innovation; Innovation Clusters, Customer Centric Innovation
3. Excellence and Innovation in the Public Sector, Excellence and Innovation Service Sector
4. Excellence and Innovation in the Manufacturing Sector; Excellence and Innovation in the Social Sector
5. Leadership Role for Embedding Innovation Culture, Innovation and Personal Development
6. Technological Innovations; Innovation and CSR; Innovation and Learning; Creativity, Ideation & Knowledge Management; Innovation and Business Models
7. Innovation Clusters and Partnership; Managing Innovation and Economic Development;
8. Innovation Policy Development; Strategies for Managing Destructive Innovations