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ECEI
2009
4th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The University of Antwerp, Belgium
10-11 September 2009
ECIW 2008
This is the first call for papers for the 4th
European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which will be held at
the University of Antwerp, Belgium on 10th -11th
September 2009.
Innovation and entrepreneurship are tightly coupled concepts. Innovation
involves designing new ways of conceptualising, developing and producing a
range of goods and services which society requires. Although inventing new
things may be seen as part of innovation, innovation does not exclusively rely
on new discoveries. Rather it can stem from simply seeing new ways of
satisfying demand. Thus innovation is not a synonym for invention and almost
anyone can come up with new innovations. Entrepreneurship adds a further
dimension to how new ideas are converted into goods and services.
Entrepreneurship is sometimes said to be a mindset required to convert
innovation into a real business situation which will deliver benefits to the
stakeholders. Entrepreneurship is always driven by an individual or a small
group of individuals who are referred to as entrepreneurs and who are sometimes
colloquially referred to as the ‘movers and shakers’ in our
society. Thus the entrepreneur configures the various factors of products to
that they become a viable proposition.
Both innovation and entrepreneurship are
generally under-researched and the advisory group for the conference invites submissions
of both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide
range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers
employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research,
case studies and research in practice are welcomed approaches.
Work-in-progress, panel discussion, proposals for workshops and tutorials are
also invited. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:- General topics:
International entrepreneurship; internationalization strategies; Ontologies;
Monopolistic competition; Product differentiation, Generalised Least Square
(GLS) model; Compound option model; Phase-specific volatility; Endogenous
growth models; Quality of work life; Risk analysis; Multicriteria analysis;
Research and Development; Entrepreneurship policy; Technological innovation
process; Social construction of technology; Location technologies; Change
management; Knowing-doing gap; Sustainable management; Autopoietic systems;
Innovation success; Dynamic capabilities; Surrogate entrepreneurship; Advanced
knowledge services; Disruptive innovations; Incremental innovations; Radical
innovations; System innovations; Technological innovations; Method engineering;
Presentation and communication skills; New venture creation; Technology
transfer; Entrepreneurial challenges; Intrapreneurship; Social entrepreneurship
and social innovation; Cultural change; Performance measurement; Creativity,
innovation and entrepreneurship; Social networks; Cyber entreprenurship;
Complex adaptive systems (CAS). Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation:
Regional development and economies; Economic geography; Investment
decision-making; Remittances; Global development; Welfare society; New social
economy entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial dimensions and economic growth;
Macro-economic growth theory; Corporate tax reforms. Good governance; Best
practice; Venture capita; Investment appraisal; Cash-flow analysis; General
equilibrium contract theory; Project financing. Entrepreneurship and innovation
for educators: Entrepreneurship training and development; University patents;
University-enterprise cooperation; Learning regions; Challenging academic and
business conventions; Co-teaching with business and public sector; Innovation
education; Action learning; Learning organization; Academic entrepreneurship;
Research-based spin-offs; Evolutionary learning. Entrepreneurship and
innovation in business: Entrepreneurship development programmes; Business
angels; Assumption based planning; New venture creation; e-Commerce;
Intrapreneurship; Strategic management; Small and medium enterprises
(SME’s); Innovation and product design; Web design; Knowledge-intensive
services; Business simulation; Strategic alignment; Firm formation; Employment
growth; Start-up management;, Competitive advantages.
Papers accepted for the conference will be
published in the conference proceedings. ECEI Proceedings are listed in the
Thomson Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP), and
Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings).
Abstracts are required in the first
instance and should be submitted via the online form at
http://academic-conferences.org/ecei/ecei2009/ecei09-abstract-submission.htm
You can find full details about the
conference, including full calls for papers, on the conference website at
http://academic-conferences.org/ecei/ecei-home.htm
You can also request a copy of the calls for papers by email from me.
Please feel free to circulate this message to any colleagues or contacts you
think may be interested.
Kind regards
Sue Nugus
Conferences Director
http://www.academic-conferences.org
+44 (0)118 972 4148