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Academy of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Conference - September 2016 - University of Sydney

  • 1.  Academy of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Conference - September 2016 - University of Sydney

    Posted 03-31-2016 23:38
    CALL FOR PROPOSALS



    9th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    September 2-3, 2016, Sydney



    Innovation and Entrepreneurship across Borders



    Submission deadline: 15 April 2016 (11:59pm EST)



    http://www.aieconference.org




    The AIE Conference provides an international platform to convene scholars, industry leaders and policymakers from around the world to present research and thought leadership on trends and new developments in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Annual AIE Conferences have been held since 2008 and attracted close to 2,000 participants from around the world. Sydney, Tsinghua and Oxford universities are pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Conference for the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (AIE2016) will be held for the first time in one of the most attractive cities in the world, Sydney, Australia, from 2 – 3 September 2016.



    Co-organized by

    Australia China Business Research Network/Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Group, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia

    National Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Tsinghua University, China

    Technology and Management Centre for Development, Oxford University, UK

    Canada-China Institute for Business and Development, Ryerson University, Canada





    Executive Co-Chair

    Professor Hans Hendrischke, The University of Sydney



    Co-Chairs

    Professor Gao Jian, Tsinghua University

    Professor Fu Xiaolan, Oxford University

    Professor Steven Murphy, Ryerson University


    CONFERENCE THEME

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship across Borders

    The 2016 conference theme takes account of innovation and entrepreneurship driving rapid financial and technical globalisation across national, institutional and firm borders, capturing diversity of processes and contents, as well as the roles of individuals, organizations and societies. Some of the broad sub-themes are:



    • Entrepreneurship and innovation in a global context

    • Crowdsourcing and open innovation

    • Entrepreneurship and innovation across market and institutional borders

    . Entreprenuership and culture

    • The role of governments and public policies in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation

    • The venture creation process and venture capital markets – which countries are different

    • Global resource acquisition for start-up and growth

    • The sharing economy and the new ventures

    • Disruptive innovation and e-commerce

    • Cross-border incubation and acceleration

    • Science parks’ roles to innovation across different regions

    • Institutional and social entrepreneurship across borders

    • The importance of diaspora for innovation and entrepreneurship across borders

    • Entrepreneurship education and design thinking

    • Methodologies of entrepreneurship research



    A special session on China and Silicon Valley will be organised by Prof KC Fung of University of California, Santa Cruz, who will edit a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies.





    IMPORTANT DATES

    15 April 2016 Proposal Deadline

    16 May 2016 Acceptance Notification

    1 July 2016 Final Full Paper Due (including papers, photos and profiles)

    2-3 September 2016 AIE Conference



    Please submit your proposal in electronic format (in one Word or PDF document) by 15 April 2016 (11:59pm EST). For first time user, please register and log-in before submitting your proposal at http://aieconference.org/en/member/enrol.asp


    For more information on the conference please visit http://www.aieconference.org
    For questions and enquiries, please contact AIE Support aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn<mailto:aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn> ,
    or Glenn Howell business.researchnetworks@sydney.edu.au<mailto:business.researchnetworks@sydney.edu.au>



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