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News archive - [Event Announcement & Call for Papers] ICEIRD 2012: 5th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development

The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Sofia University) announces the 5th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development to be held in Sofia, June 01-02, 2012.

WBC-INCO.NET will also be involved in the conference and warmly invites you to join this event!

Note that the call for abstract has been extended to December 12, 2011.

Scope of the Conference

With acceleration of technological development and adoption and greater market competition, innovation is a prerequisite for enterprise survival. Innovation activity ensompasses both manufacturing and service sectors. The objective of the conference is to gather together decision makers (government, ministries and state agencies), innovation experts (universities, research and development centers, technology transfer centers, start-up centres) and practitioners (SMEs, business incubators and business support organisations) to generate discussion and exchange on the potential of entrepreneurship promotion and innovation to national and regional competitiveness.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts on the following topics:

Regional systems of innovation, competitiveness and development
Regional innovation strategies, innovative cities and regions
Knowledge transfer and infusion, technology transfer
Green ICT and supply chains
Collaborative and intelligent systems of innovation, virtual innovation environments
Innovative supply chains, network collaboration and joint ventures
Business intelligence management
Patenting, research and development in SMEs
E-technology adoption and semantic web services
Knowledge economy/integration, innovative companies and clusters
Biotechnology diffusion
Uncertainty and risk in innovation
Predictive analytics and risk assessment
Entrepreneurship and SMEs’ competitiveness
Outsourcing and off-shoring
Social business and innovation
Service innovation
Institutionally and research driven innovation
Current themes, challenges and research in social entrepreneurship
Benchmarking of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Best Practices in the region
ICT-enabled innovation and new business creation
Women's Entrepreneurship - Trends and good practices

Authors are also encouraged to submit papers in other related areas. The official language of the conference is English.

Important dates

Submission of abstract: extended deadline December 12, 2011
Submission of full papers: January 6, 2012
Early registration: April 2, 2012
Late registration: April 10, 2012

Contact: iceird2012@fmi.uni-sofia.bg

For more information, please refer to the flyer attached below and the conference website: iceird2012.fmi.uni-sofia.bg

Geographical focus

General/no specific focus
International; Other
Western Balkans

Scientifc field / Thematic focus

Social Sciences

Entry created by Ines Marinkovic on December 6, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2012

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