This is a call for papers for the 6th European Conference
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship being held at the Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK on the 15-16 September 2011.
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.
You can find calls for papers for these tracks at:
http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2011/ecie11-call-papers.htm
Conference proceedings are submitted for accreditation on
publication. Please note that depending on the accreditation body this process
can take up to several months.
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the
conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. Selected
papers will be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of
Entrepreneurial Venturing, a journal published by Inderscience.
ECIE conference proceedings are:
Please feel free to circulate this message to any colleagues
or contacts you think may be interested.
Kind regards
Sue