1th Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference

Starts:  Jun 25, 2020 08:00 (BST)
Ends:  Jun 26, 2020 18:00 (BST)
Associated with  Entrepreneurship (ENT)
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2020 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference
25-26 June 2020 in Cambridge, UK
Paper submissions are due on 14 February 2020

The University of Cambridge Judge Business School, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the National Tsing Hua University College of Technology and Management, and the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business will co-host the conference at the University of Cambridge on 25-26 June 2020. This will be the eleventh annual gathering of the conference, which rotates between North America, Europe, and Asia. This global gathering aims to promote worldwide scholarly collaborations across regions, continents and academic communities.

We welcome unpublished working papers from all research areas within the topics of
entrepreneurship and innovation, including:
• new venture formation processes, financing, and strategies;
• R&D and project management, performance metrics, and portfolio evaluation;
• institutions and policies to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation;
• markets for ideas, innovation, and other intangibles;
• regional and global dynamics of entrepreneurship and innovation;
• university and science-based innovation and technology transfer;
• continuous improvement and new process development; new product development,
development processes, and service design;
• patents, licensing, and intellectual property;
• business model innovation (e.g., operations, marketing, or network innovation);
• open innovation and distributed innovation; and
• market and financial impacts of innovation.

This year’s sub-theme is disruptive innovation and digital platforms, and we particularly
encourage submissions which touch on this theme. New technologies such as robotics,
machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, 3D printing, and other technological
drivers of automation continue to attract increased attention from organizations and  polities, given their implications for contemporary professions, industries, and the nature of work. Occasionally labelled as the “fourth industrial revolution,” these new technologies build on the foundation of the digital or “third” revolution, continuing to suggest an exponential rather than linear pace of change.

Undergirding this revolution is the rapid emergence and diffusion of digital platform-based ecosystems, which provide technological architectures, facilitating interaction between different but often complementary components and/or actors in order to generate shared value. Unlike product-based disruptions which often change what people consume, platform-based disruptions change whole industries, and they change how people live and interact.

Existing theories of disruptive innovation are now decades old, providing an enriched
understanding of product-based disruption. However, the convergence of powerful and
widely-accessible emerging technologies and digital platforms opens up new opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs and innovators as well as for society writ-large. A better understanding of these opportunities and challenges requires scholars to move beyond their disciplinary silos and embrace insights from across the Academy and across the globe. Because of its insistence on both global and inter-disciplinary participation, The Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference offers an ideal outlet for scholars hoping to present emerging and innovative research on this theme.

Submission Details
The conference promises to provide a vigorous and lively discussion about current research in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation from a global perspective. Please submit an electronic version of your full paper no later than Friday, 14 February 2020, using the form located at this link: 
https://jbs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BcUU52JoBnnhoF

The papers will be reviewed by the conference committee, and the authors will receive
notice by 15 March 2019. The conference committee also extends an invitation to interested scholars to attend the conference regardless of whether a paper is submitted.

About This Conference
The Batten Institute at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business hosted the
inaugural annual conference in 2010. As the conference grew in popularity, Darden partnered with the Academy of Management in hosting the 2012 event, which enabled the program to be streamed live to every continent. After that successful event, the Cambridge Judge Business School joined in 2013 as a co-sponsor alongside Darden. Since then, the event has shifted location between the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia. The event was hosted in University of Hong Kong Faculty of Business and Economics in 2017.

Recently, the National Tsing Hua University College of Technology and Management in
Taiwan and the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business have joined as future co-hosts of the event. The history and previous conference programs can be found at the permanent conference website:
https://www.darden.virginia.edu/entrepreneurshipinnovation-research-conference/

Location

The University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge, CB2 1AG