Call for Papers: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

July 16th-18th, 2009

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20th May 2009


The first Annual Conference for the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2008 (AIE2008) was a great success. There were 350 paper submissions from thirty seven countries. The published Conference Proceedings were collected in ISTP (Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings).

The 2009 AIE annual conference will be held in Beijing on July 16 -18th. The ex-chairman of American Management Association (AMA) Andrew Van de Ven will give a keynote speech in the Opening Ceremony.

The Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Intel Foundation. Three excellent articles will be selected by the paper review committee, and one of them will be awarded "The Intel Best Paper Award”.

Intel “The Intel Best Paper Award” one article US$1,000
“The Excellent Paper Award” two articles award certificate


ORGANIZERS:

School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
National Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Tsinghua University
Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University
Sanjaya Lall Programme on Technology for Development (SLPTMD), University of Oxford


LANGRAGE: English


PROGRAM TOPICS

The conference focuses on discussions mainly covering the following topics of interest but is not limited to:

1. Innovative and entrepreneurial strategies for firms in global markets
2. Globalization: Challenges and opportunities for firms in emerging markets
3. Industrial focus in innovation and entrepreneurship
4. Management of organizational change
5. Management of technological innovations
6. Patenting and licensing management
7. Service innovation
8. New business creation process
9. Technology-based venturing
10. Venture capital and entrepreneurship
11. Creation and management of family business
12. Entrepreneurial finance
13. Explaining differences in entrepreneurship activities in different countries
14. Entrepreneurship environment and policy
15. Innovation clusters and Science Park
16. Management innovation
17. Corporate venture
18. Creating and sustaining successful growth
19. Business model
20. International entrepreneurship

Submission of Papers:

Authors should submit abstract of the paper and all of the abstracts and the full papers
should be included in a individual file. E-mail to Conference Organization Committee at
aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Submission Date:

Submission of Abstract: May 20th, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: May 30th, 2009
Submission of Full Paper: June 20th, 2009
For further details will be introduced the AIE website soon:
http://www.nerc.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/AIE2009 or http://222.135.144.8/web/aie2009/ or http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/jg_en/infoSingleArticle.do?articleId=2034
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Tel: 86-10-62789757；Fax: 86-10-62784544
E-mail: aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn