ECIE European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

ECIE European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie-home.htm Ongoing developments and important dates for ECIE Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:53:34 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 1440 RSSeditor v0.9.54 (http://www.rss-info.com) Mini track on Business/innovation ecosystem for emerging industries accepted http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Guo_Rong Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Business/innovation ecosystem for emerging industries co-chaired by Dr Liang Guo, Rouen Business School, France and Dr Ke Rong, Bournemouth University, UK

The current dynamic business environment has led to the level of business competition moving away from a focus on organisations' supply chain towards business ecosystems. A business/innovation ecosystem is an expanded supply chain involving universities, industry associations, governments and other stakeholders. The concept of a business ecosystem is demanding for practitioners and often requires the organisation of cross-industry collaboration to cope with the dynamic business environment.

The concept of a business ecosystem has been adopted by a number of emerging industries including Mobile computing (iPhone online store, Android ecosystem), Electric Vehicles, Semiconductors and Wind Power .

Business Ecosystems offers the opportunity for practitioners and academic researchers to try to understand the totality of a business system and inter-dependence of stakeholders to cope with uncertain and dynamic environments. The business ecosystem theory has expanded the business network boundary which contributes to strategic management, product and technology innovation theories as well as the operation management theory.

Submissions may include, but are not restricted to:
New product development within the context of a business ecosystem:
Community Innovation and stakeholders
Innovation ecosystems and open innovation
Social innovation
Dynamic supply chains
Emerging industries

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Complete details can be viewed on this and other mini tracks on the Call for Papers page. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

]]> Mini track on Employee driven innovation and workplace Learning accepted http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Teglborg Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Employee driven innovation and workplace Learning chaired by Dr Ann-Charlotte Teglborg, Novancia, Business School Paris, France.

Innovation has a number of different sources, variations and foci, among these research-driven and user-driven innovation. Surprisingly, a relatively underdeveloped source and form of innovation is employee driven innovation: i.e. innovation involving active participation by employees in and for the organizations they are employed. Employees are playing and can potentially play a much more active role in innovation, which can lead to the introduction of new products, services and work methods, and ongoing improvement in existing products, processes and issues of work organization.

Although different theoretical approaches to work organization based on a number of management theories touch on employee-driven innovation as a factor for business development, there is still no major theory of employee-driven innovation. Employee-driven innovation (EDI) is a new research field attracting attention from a range of different disciplines and theoretical approaches.

Literature identifies employee-driven innovation to belong to the broader categories of non-R&D innovation and high involvement innovation. It focuses on innovative practices contributed by any employee on all levels of the organization. Extant research takes as a point of departure the recognition that it is possible to gain access to such learning and innovation processes and to describes, understand and investigate them from the perspective of the employees. This can be done by focusing on all types of employees in the learning environment the workplace constitutes, its work organization, and its cultural and structural organization of work tasks etc.

With the aim of contributing to the development of this emerging field of study, we encourage conceptual and empirical contributions that draw on different theoretical streams and disciplines, adopt diverse research methodologies and examine multiple levels of analysis. Some of the questions/topics that can be addressed are:

How to conceptualize employee-driven innovation as a new mode of innovation?
Exploring the employee-driven innovation concept across nations and cultures.
Exploring employee-driven innovation in network at the global level.

What is the role of the welfare state and labour market institutions?
How do enterprises develop capacity for employee-driven innovation?
Exploring processes of the social dialogue and innovative work behavior.

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Complete details can be viewed on this and other mini tracks on the Call for Papers page. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

]]> Mini track on Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship accepted http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Badulescu Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship chaired by Prof Dr Alina Badulescu, University of Oradea, Romania.

Sustainability and sustainable development are complex concepts, directly related to the People-Planet-Profit paradigm and the response to new ventures. As a spin-off concept, sustainable entrepreneurship as opposed to the classical, so-called selfish entrepreneurship, focuses on the behaviour of individuals. Sustainable entrepreneurship introduces a new business model whereby people are driven not only by gains for themselves, but also by acting ethically and behaving responsibly towards the community, the environment and future generations. Initially considered as a business approach valid only for large organisations, sustainable entrepreneurship is more and more interesting in SMEs, given both their collective contribution to economic growth and the advantages procured for the economy by promoting a sustainable business model.

This track aims to address specific issues related to sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the theoretical conceptualisation of new ways of sustainable entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs, challenging factors, conditions and limitations, macroeconomic and social impact of sustainable entrepreneurship, as well as entrepreneurship in tourism and other sustainable industries. The track welcomes both conceptual papers, and empirical contributions considering sustainability as dimension in innovation and entrepreneurship

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Complete details can be viewed on this and other mini tracks on the Call for Papers page. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm
Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

]]> Mini track on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies accepted http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Liu_Li Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8^th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies co-chaired by Dr Yipeng Liu, University of Kent, UK and Dr Jun Li, University of Essex, UK

The global economic downturn in the aftermath of the economic crisis in 2008 is shaping the entrepreneurship landscape across the world. Stagnating economic growth, persistent high unemployment rates and shrinking spending power in the public and household sectors have not only changed entrepreneurial environments in the developed economies, but they have also altered the entrepreneurship outlook in emerging economies as both economies are so much interrelated. Entrepreneurs in emerging economies have responded to the constraint-based economy by applying frugal innovation approach to opportunity exploration and opportunity exploitation. Emerging economies, such as China or India, also promote entrepreneurship unconventionally by attracting global talents back to their home country (Liu, 2011). This type of entrepreneurs, dubbed returnee entrepreneurs or transnational entrepreneurs, mobilizes resource, knowledge and know-how globally across borders to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. The reversed brain drain has significant impact on both emerging and developed economies (Wadhwa, Saxenian, & Siciliano, 2012). Entrepreneurship in emerging economies under the circumstances of global economic downturn begs answers to questions. For example, how do existing small businesses respond to a major economic downturn? How do entrepreneurs innovate to turn a constraint-based economy into an opportunity-bound economy? How do different stakeholders from emerging and developed economies profit from the returnee entrepreneurial phenomenon to generate value instead of being hurt? What is the effect of sub-national institution variations on the development of varying entrepreneurial policy (Li & Geng, 2012)? How can government and entrepreneurs contribute to institutional development and building process (Liu, Cao, & Xing, 2013)? This mini-track aims to stimulate scholarly debates on how to leverage the economic downturn to bolster innovation and entrepreneurship with a focus on emerging economies.

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Complete details can be viewed on this and other mini tracks on the Call for Papers page. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

]]> Mini track on Entrepreneurship, innovation and internationalization http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#De_Beule Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8^th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Entrepreneurship, innovation and internationalization chaired by Dr Filip De Beule, Lessius University College, Antwerp, Belgium.

This track focuses on the growing international role played by young entrepreneurial firms aka born globals or international new ventures and on the internationalization of the entrepreneurial and innovative activities of established firms.

New firms and innovative SMEs are playing an increasing role as drivers of growth and job creation in the economy, but they face major challenges in responding to globalisation and the shift to new forms of innovation. New firm start-ups and innovative SMEs increasingly operate in international markets, exposing them to foreign competition and providing them with new opportunities.

At the same time, globalisation is increasing the importance of cross-border knowledge flows about markets, suppliers and technologies, which help to upgrade competitiveness and stimulate firm growth. Established firms increasingly also take advantage of their international network to add to their competitive advantage. Access to knowledge flows is particularly important in the context of the widespread adoption of open innovation methods in many sectors. This involves collaborations between new and small firms and other firms and organisations in developing new products and services, new process technologies and new organisational models. Foreign partners can be particularly valuable in such knowledge exchange networks. Indeed, export orientation and active innovation networks are the core characteristics associated with rapid SME growth.

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Complete details can be viewed on this and other mini tracks on the Call for Papers page. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

]]> Mini track on Innovation in the Public Sector http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Todorovic Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8^th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Innovation in the Public Sector chaired by Milan Todorovic, Union Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade, Serbia.

It appears evident that the public sector has a great potential for innovation, but this is still not sufficiently recognized or seen as being as valuable as it can be. Generally, activities by public organizations and institutions are seen as either regulatory frameworks for innovation activities or as more or less passive providers of inputs to private sector innovation or as recipients and users of innovative products generated by a private sector. The limits of public management theory and practice, mixed experiences with privatization and growing socio-economic and environmental concerns, all of these highlighted the crucial role of the public sector in the society. Clearly the role of the public sector activities in our societies is more important for socio-economic development and for the achievement of the ultimate welfare objectives that underpin the goals of public activities and policies.

Innovation in the public sector can be divided into several types, such as: new or improved services, process innovation, administrative innovation, system innovation, conceptual innovation and radical change of rationality that shows the mental matrix shift of the employees of an organization. There is a commonly held belief that the incentive structure of the private sector generate more innovation than the one found in the public sector. This has lead to a drive towards privatization of the public sector, in the meaning of making public institutions more like private ones. This mini-track examines the nature of innovation and a common set of strategies, including new public management, to achieve such streamlining in the public sector. It also, identifies specific barriers to such innovation and reviews a range of support actions that could reduce these barriers.

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Complete details can be viewed on this and other mini tracks on the Call for Papers page. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

]]> Mini track on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Henry Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8^th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation chaired by Dr Ella Henry, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

Indigenous peoples around the world have been profoundly affected by the colonial process, which has often resulted in impoverishment and cultural malaise in their communities. Indigenous Entrepreneurship is one way that indigenous peoples have been able to rebuild their communities in culturally and socially sustainable ways. Indigenous Entrepreneurship is a small but growing field within the Management academy, drawing from a range of disciplines including sociology, development and political studies and economics.

The publication of the seminal text International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship (2007), edited by Leo-Paul Dana and Robert Anderson, brought the burgeoning community of indigenous entrepreneurship researchers together. This Mini Track will build on that text and provide an opportunity for new and emerging research and scholars to share their works, highlight entrepreneurship and innovation in their communities and further develop the field.

Recommended topics include but are not limited to:

Developing Multidisciplinary Theories of Indigenous Entrepreneurship; Indigenous Entrepreneurship & Social Transformation; Empowerment Through Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Indigenous Entrepreneurship & Cultural Revitalisation; Developing the economic potential of indigenous communities

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm

The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm .

]]> Mini track on Approaching the Cliff: New Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Education http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm#Winkel_Kakouris Brendan Remenyi The advisory group for the 8^th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 hosted by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 September 2013 have accepted a mini track entitled Approaching the Cliff: New Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Education co chaired by Doan Winkel, Illinois State University, USA and Dr Alexandros Kakouris, University of Athens, Greece.

Submissions can be made directly on line at http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-abstract-submission.htm

The deadline for abstract submissions is 28 February 2013.

Full papers are due no later than 18 April 2013.

You can download a .pdf version of this mini track suitable for notice boards or circulation to a network on the At a Glance webpage. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-glance.htm

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