You have submitted an article and are waiting for a reply from the editor. What is the editor doing in the meantime? Every day the editor receives a great number of submissions and has to make his/her judgment on the quality of the submitted documents. What makes the editor “throw the paper into the bin”? How can the author avoid desk rejection? What criteria does the editor use to send the manuscript to reviewers? All these questions and more will be discussed at the workshop. The speaker will share his editorial perspective on submissions, will give you examples of what can go wrong, and how to make the author-editor communication effective.

Dirk Meissner, Distinguished Professor HSE, Head of the Laboratory for Economics of Innovation at HSE, and Academic Head of the international master program “Governance Science, Technology and Innovation.” He is Associate Editor of Technological Forecasting and Social Change journal and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management as well as Springer book series Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. He guest-edited several Special Issues in journals such as Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Journal of Business Research and Technovation among others.