Program

The program details will be announced here later.​

Main Theme and Sub Themes

Main Theme

 Industrial Policies Under the Shadow Geopolitics

Sub Themes

• New Industrial Paradigm: Industrial Policy under Geopolitical Fragmentation, Climate Transition and Artificial Intelligence​
  
• Artificial Intelligence& Trade Wars: Industrial Policy Transformation Competitiveness, Sustainability and Strategic Economic Development
  
• Changing Goals of Industrial Policies
  
• Industrial Policy, Trade and Geopolitics​
  
• The Rise of AI and Digitalization of Production
  
• Green Industrial Policy, Green Economy, Green Finance and Industrial Development
  
• Geoeconomic Shifts and Reconfiguration of Global Value Chains
  
• Circular Economy and Sustainability​
  
• Labour Markets under Pressure of Automation and Demographic Change, 
  
• Industrial Policies and SMEs Development​
  
• Industrial Policies and Entrepreneurship
  
• Global Economy: Low Economic Growth, High Inflation, Climate Change, Supply Chain Disruptions
  
• Resilient Production Systems in a Fragmented Global Economy
  
• Energy and Climate Policies for Economic Stability and Transition Risk Management
  
• Productivity and Value-added Growth Through Artificial Intelligence
  
• Artificial Intelligence, Regulation and Industrial Competitiveness
  
• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Workforce
  
• Innovation Policies and Technology Transfer
  
• Human Capital and Skills Transformation in Industry
  
• Defense Industry and Dual-use Technologies
  
• Education Policy and Economıc Development
  
• Job Treatment by AI and AI Skills
  
• Neo Colonialism and New Industrial Policy
  
• Economic Development under Neo Colonial Trends
  
• Technical Entrepreneurship

About

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

Organized by OSTİM Technical University, SEPIP aims to develop a platform for participants to discuss the role of economic development and industrial policy and planning at the national and regional levels; to compare legacy theoretical and practical motivations for national development planning with those emerging in the globalized world economy; to present real-world experiences in industrial policy and planning through firsthand experiences from international academics; and to discuss new tools and approaches to development such as physical infrastructure planning, industrial policy, and cluster policy

The first SEPIP conference, held on May 4, 2014, attracted great interest. International speakers, including academics, policymakers, and practitioners from a wide range of countries from the USA and Europe to Singapore and Korea, participated.

SEPIP 2026 will be held at OSTİM Technical University and Nagoya University on October 13-14, 2026.

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Dr. Murat Yülek, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ali Akkemik, Fukuoka University, Japan
• Prof. Masakazu Someya, Nagoya University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Betül Gür, Istanbul Commerce University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Erinç Yeldan, Kadir Has University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Gilberto Santos, Minho University, Portugal
• Prof. Dr. Franco Mosconi, Universite degli Studi di Parma, Italy
• Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bezchinsky, UNSAM, Argentina
• Prof. Dr. Kaoru Natsuda, APU Ritsumeikan University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Mustafa Erdoğdu, Marmara University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Mustafa Polat, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ufuk Türen, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Sadık Unay, Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ekrem Erdem, Erciyes University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Travis Taylor, Christopher Newport University, USA
• Prof. Dr. Turan Erol, Sabahattin Zaim University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Ünsal Sığrı, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Yusuf Balcı, Istanbul Commerce University, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Barış Alpaslan, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Christian S. Otchia, Nagoya University, Japan
• Assoc. Prof. Bahar Erdal, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Nurullah Gür, Medipol University, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Fatih Cemil Özbuğday, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Sandrine Labory, University of Ferrara, Italy
• Assoc. Prof. Büşra Ağan Çelik, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Melike Aktaş Bozkurt, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Assoc. Prof. Sabri Öz, Istanbul Commerce University, Türkiye
• Dr. Metehan Yağmur, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
• Dr. Egehan Özkan Alakaş, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Dr. Ünay Tamgaç Tezcan, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Nurullah Gür, Marmara Üniversitesi. Türkiye
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Babacan, Marmara Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Ayşe Atabey Bölük, Academician, Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Lec. Zehra Sever, Academician, Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Dr. Abdurrahim Hocagil, International Affairs Coordinator, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Res. Asst. Seray Kağıtçı Candan, Deputy Head of Organization Committee, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Prof. Masakazu Someya, Nagoya University, Japan
• Prof. Dr. Ali Akkemik, Fukuoka University, Japan
• Assoc. Prof. Christian Otchia, Nagoya University, Japan
• Res. Asst. Batuhan Cicikler, Project Specialist, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Res. Asst. Huzeyfe Erkam Candan, Project Specialist, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Hakan Karaca, Web Coordinator, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Burak Akıncıoğlu, IT Expert, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye
• Ata Kalay, IT Expert, OSTİM Technical University, Türkiye

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

Important Days and Venue

VENUE

SEPIP 2026, It will be held at OSTİM Technical University.

Address: OSTİM Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye

Date: 13-14 October 2026

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Publication

Selected papers can be considered for publication at Industrial Policy* (www.indpol.org)

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 sepip.2026.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. kısaltmalara veya belirtilmemiş atıflara yer verilmemelidir.
• 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: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086

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

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.

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 2026, experts in their field. Please submit your papers at  sepip-2026.ostimteknik.edu.tr 

Call For Papers

You are invited to submit your scientific papers for SEPIP2026.

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: 14 September 2026. (included)
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: 04 October, 2026.
• Final paper submission deadline: 31 October, 2026 (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 sepip.2026.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.

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