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I thought you would like to know that the response to the call for papers for the 7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE-2012) being held at Escola Superior de Gestão e Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal on the 20-21 September 2012 has been excellent, but as usual we have had a number of requests for extensions. Therefore we are holding the call open until 16^th of March 2012. So now would be a good time to circulate the call for papers to your contacts one more time.

 

We only require an abstract at this time and you will find a full call for papers, including a pdf to download at:

http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2012/ecie12-call-papers.htm

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.

 

Publication opportunity:

 

Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. Selected papers will also be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, journals published by Inderscience.

 

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. Academic research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited.

 

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