Good morning!
The response to the 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 has been excellent, but as usual we have had a number of requests for extensions. Therefore we are holding the call open until the 10th of March 2011. So now would be a good time to circulate the call for papers to your contacts one more time.
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 let me know if you have any questions!
Dr. Doan Winkel
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Illinois State University
Campus Mailbox 5580
Normal, IL 61790
(309) 438-2736
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