Good morning -
I wanted to pass along a Final call for papers for the 6th European
Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE) being held at the
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK on the 15-16 September 2011.
This call is open until 24th of February 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.
For the first time there will be a prize for the best PhD paper and the best
Poster presented at the conference.
ECIE conference proceedings are:
* listed in the Thomson Reuters ISI Index Social Sciences & Humanities
Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings)
* listed in the Thomson Reuters Index to Social Sciences & Humanities
Proceedings (ISSHP)
* Indexed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK.
* listed in the EBSCO database
Please feel free to circulate this message to any colleagues or contacts you
think may be interested.
You can also follow the conference on twitter at:
http://twitter.com/#!/ECIE2011
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