Local and global geographies of entrepreneurship and innovation: Structures, processes and geographical contexts
Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Seattle, Washington, 10-16 April 2011 (http://www.aag.org/cs/annual_conference).
Session Organizers:
Grete Rusten, University of Bergen
Ragnhild Overå, University of Bergen
Entrepreneurship and innovations includes different types of motivations, knowledge, organisational arrangements covering different stages of the production system. The diversity of studies in many countries within this field shows that it is important not to underestimate the role and variation of managerial practise, firm size, sector, product, organisational forms, capacity, competence, operational dynamics and geographical scale. This session aims to explore various performance motivations and challenges in the developed and the developing world for entrepreneurs and organizers of innovations by taking individual, political, organisational and regional contexts into consideration. Topics on this planned session that can be included are:
-Local socio-geographic contexts of entrepreneurship
-Local entrepreneurship and innovation in globalized contexts
-Gender and entrepreneurship
-Firms’ incorporation of innovations into their value chain in different geographical contexts
--The role of management practises, networking and assistance in entrepreneurship and innovative activities
-Motivations, challenges and local contexts in transnational migrants’ entrepreneurship and innovation strategies
Papers may be selected for a themed journal after the conference.
Anyone interested in participating in the session should submit an abstract conforming to the requirements of the AAG (see http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm#abstracts) and with your AAG pin code by October 15th, 2010 to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
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