Call for conference papers: 8th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

8th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

http://www.aieconference.org

Co-organized by

• 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

Co-Chairs

• Dr. Steven Murphy, Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
• Dr. Jian Gao, Senior Associate Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
• Dr. Xiaolan Fu, Director, Technology and Management Centre for Development, Oxford University

Call for Proposals:

Ryerson, Tsinghua and Oxford universities are pleased to announce that the 8th Annual Conference for the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (#AIE2015) will be held for the first time in beautiful Toronto, Canada from August 20-21, 2015. The AIE conference was first held in 2008 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, consistently ranked as one of China’s top institutions for higher learning and mentioned in Forbes as building China’s next generation of entrepreneurs. The conference has since taken place at the prestigious Oxford University in London, England. Oxford has promoted entrepreneurship and innovation through its Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the Technology and Management Centre for Development. A truly international conference, it has attracted more than 1,500 participants from more than 27 countries over the years. This time, conference participants will have the unique opportunity to experience Canada as an innovation nation. Toronto has a vibrant entrepreneurial sector, as exemplified by Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ), one of the top ranked incubators in the world. Zones under the umbrella of the DMZ include the Center for Urban Energy, Fashion Zone, Design Fabrication Zone, Transmedia Zone, and Social Ventures Zone. Coming in the future are Aerospace , Biomed and Sports Zones and others. The DMZ has internationalized its model to India and will be duplicated in other emerging economies. The multitude of industries represented by the zones and programs at Ryerson University is reflective of the bustling and buzzing city of Toronto, a highly economically diversified city on Lake Ontario. While surrounded by natural beauty, including the Toronto Islands, wine country just south of the city, and the Canadian Shield to the north, Toronto is also diverse and glamorous for its variety of people and events. Known as “Hollywood of the North”, especially because it hosts one of the most prestigious film events in the world, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), many movies are made here. Ryerson even has a Creative Industries program as reflective of our vibrant arts scene. There is no end to things to do in Toronto, even for those of us who live here! The AIE Conference provides a broad platform to convene scholars from around the world to present research and to stimulate discussions on critical research issues and new developments in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Conference Team:  Building An Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

The conference has an overarching theme that emphasizes the important role of entrepreneurship in a sustainable innovation ecosystem and the impact of diversity on entrepreneurial development and social innovation. It covers the following topics of interest but is not limited to:

• The role of entrepreneurship in the economic diversification and development process
• New business creation process, incubators, and accelerators
• The role of entrepreneurship in innovation and revitalization of corporations
• Cross-sector partnerships for increasing innovation
• The role of government and public policy in innovation
• The role and effects of education and training on innovation
• University based new ventures and student engagement
• Sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on solving environmental issues
• Technology-based venturing and management of technological innovations
• Venture capital, angel investing, and entrepreneurial finance 
• Creation and management of family business
• Diversity within innovation and entrepreneurship (e.g., women, immigrants, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, persons with disability and seniors)
• Social innovation and entrepreneurship
• Technological innovation to bridge rural-urban divides
• International entrepreneurship and “born global” strategies
• Entrepreneurship in and design of innovations for low income or emerging markets 

Important Dates

• May 15, 2015 Proposal Deadline - Extended from April 15, 2015
• June 30, 2015 Final Submissions (including papers, photos and profiles)
• August 20-21, 2015 AIE Conference

Submission

Applicants are invited to submit proposals in two of the following ways:

1) Individual proposals that consist of:

• Title
• Theme(s) addressed
• Full contact information
• An abstract of your paper consisting of no more than 500 words (2 pages) 
• An updated CV

2) Panel sessions of 3-5 participants that consist of:

• Proposed title of the panel session
• Theme(s) addressed
• A 500 word (2 pages) overview of the main theme(s) discussed in the panel and how each paper interconnects 
• Full contact information of each participant
• Updated CVs for all participants 

Please submit your proposal in electronic format (in one Word or PDF document) to

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aie2015 by April 15 (11:59pm EST). Proposals received after this time will not be considered. The conference encourages proposals from current and emerging scholars, those in public policy and industry partners. You will be notified electronically of your acceptance no later than May 15 2015

Presenters whose proposals are accepted for the conference will be invited to submit full papers of no more than 20-25 pages on the topic outlined in your abstract. The best paper selected by the conference committee will win the Best Paper Award co-sponsored by Emerald Publishing and will be considered for publication by the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. For more information on the conference please visit http://www.aieconference.org, and for general help and administrative matters please contact AIE Support at aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Call for papers. Special Issue

Call for papers for Special Issue of Journal of International Management

From Resources and Value Chains to Consumer Benefits and Innovation Ecosystems: Demand-Side Perspectives in International Business 

Guest editors:

• Ana Cristina O. Siqueira, Duquesne University
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• Ronaldo C. Parente, Florida International University
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• Richard Priem, Texas Christian University & LUISS Guido Carli University

Deadline: November 20, 2013

1. Purpose of Special Issue

Globalization, companies’ increasing emphasis on innovation, and the fast-paced introduction of new technologies have encouraged companies to search for technologies anywhere in the world (Doz, Santos, & Williamson, 2001), develop technologies in emerging economies (Immelt, Govindarajan, & Trimble, 2009), and manage innovation ecosystems internationally (Adner, 2012). Venturing beyond the sequential notion of value chains (Porter, 1985), some companies have developed collaborative arrangements involving economic transactions and institutional arrangements between suppliers, complementors, and users (Normann & Ramirez, 1993; Stabell & Fjeldstad, 1998). Such “innovation ecosystems” can be understood as networks of interconnected organizations that incorporate both production- and use-side participants who create value through innovation (Autio & Thomas, forthcoming). In an increasingly interconnected world, some firms are able to create more value than any single firm could alone by coordinating innovation ecosystems that cross industry boundaries and national borders.

Demand-side approaches to value creation represent a new, bourgeoning area in the fields of technology innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management (Priem, Li, & Carr, 2012). For instance, an earlier symposium at the 2009 meeting of the Academy of Management addressed the topic of “Demand-Side Approaches to Strategy and Innovation: Moving beyond a Resource-Only Focus” and showcased the work in this area by scholars from different countries. More recently, a symposium at the 2012 meeting of the Academy of Management discussed the topic of “Strategy in Ecosystems,” bringing together presenters who have made major contributions to this growing area, such as Ron Adner, Carliss Baldwin, Marco Iansiti, Michael Jacobides, Kathleen Eisenhardt, and Yves Doz.

Demand-side studies have begun investigating key questions such as: how consumer demand may influence innovation decisions (Fontana & Guerzoni, 2008; Sawhney, Verona & Prandelli, 2005; Tripsas, 2008), and how consumer-focused strategies influence value creation and appropriation (Adner & Snow, 2010; Gruber, MacMillan, & Thompson, 2008; Ye, Priem, & Alshwer, 2012). Among these approaches, the perspective of “consumer benefits experienced” (Priem, 2007) examines demand-side strategies that firms can employ to create value. Consumers are arbiters of value by endorsing or rejecting the value of innovations (Priem, 2007). 

International business researchers have started to examine: how multinational organizations access knowledge distributed across consumer groups and different countries in developing innovations (Wilson & Doz, 2011); how collaboration with upstream suppliers, complementors, and downstream consumers facilitates value creation through innovation in an interconnected world (Autio & Thomas, forthcoming); and the effect of innovation on internationalization (e.g., Zeng & Williamson, 2007). Nonetheless, demand-side approaches in international business remain in their infancy (Gulati, Puranam, & Tushman, 2012), and research from this new perspective is needed for a more complete understanding of how the interaction of organizations within innovation ecosystems influences internationalization. Such research can enrich the international business field.

2. Examples of research themes and questions for the Special Issue

Some illustrative (but not exclusive) demand-side research questions that would be appropriate for this special issue include:

• · How do multinational organizations develop demand-side advantages with ordinary resources?
• · What conditions facilitate the transfer of user-innovation knowledge in multinational organizations?
• · How do multinational organizations drive cross-border innovation ecosystems?
• · What conditions influence the internationalization of innovation ecosystems?
• · How does the internationalization of innovation ecosystems influence the development of new technologies?
• · How do global nonprofit organizations and social enterprises support innovation ecosystems with cross-border collaborations?
• · To what extent does collaboration within an innovation ecosystem enhance the internationalization prospects of emerging market multinationals?
• · How might demand-side approaches help extend the knowledge-based and resource-based views of multinational organizations?
• · To what extent could institutional theory help explain the management of innovation ecosystems across borders?
• · How might traditional international business theoretical frameworks such as the Uppsala internationalization model benefit from demand-based approaches?

3. Submission Instructions

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is November 20, 2013. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with Journal of International Management’s Style Guide for Authors: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-international-management/1075-4253/guide-for-authors.

Manuscripts should be electronically submitted to: http://ees.elsevier.com/intman. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for review in relation to the special issue it is important that authors select “Demand-Side Perspectives” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. All submissions will be subject to the regular double-blind peer review process at JIM.

Please direct any questions regarding the Special Issue to Ana Siqueira (siqueiraa@duq.edu) with a copy to Ronaldo Parente (rcparent@fiu.edu) and Richard Priem (r.priem@tcu.edu).

4. References

Adner, R., & Snow, D. 2010. Old technology responses to new technology threats: Demand heterogeneity and technology retreats. Industrial and Corporate Change, 19: 1655–1675.

Adner, R. 2012. The wide lens: A new strategy for innovation. New York, NY: Penguin Books

Adner, R., & Kapoor, R. 2010. Value creation in innovation ecosystems: How the structure of technological interdependence affects firm performance in new technology generations. Strategic Management Journal, 31(3): 306−333.

Autio, E., & Thomas, L. D. W. Forthcoming. Innovation ecosystems: Implications for innovation management. In M. Dodgson, N. Philips, & D. M. Gann (Eds), The Oxford handbook of innovation management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Doz, Y., Santos, J., & Williamson, P. 2001. From global to metanational: How companies win in the knowledge economy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Fontana, R., & Guerzoni, M. 2008. Incentives and uncertainty: An empirical analysis of the impact of demand on innovation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32: 927–946.

Gruber, M., MacMillan, I. & Thompson, J. 2008. Look before you leap: Market opportunity identification in emerging technology firms. Management Science, 54: 1652–1665.

Gulati, R., Puranam, P., & Tushman, M. 2012. Meta-organization design: Rethinking design in interorganizational and community contexts. Strategic Management Journal, 33: 571–586.

Immelt, J. R., Govindarajan, V., & Trimble, C. 2009. How GE is disrupting itself. Harvard Business Review, October: 56-65.

Normann, R., & Ramirez, R. 1993. From value chain to value constellation: Designing interactive strategy. Harvard Business Review, 71: 65-65.

Porter, M. E. 1985. Competitive advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance. New York: Free Press.

Priem, R. L. 2007. A consumer perspective on value creation. Academy of Management Review, 32(1): 219−235.

Priem, R. L., Li, S., & Carr, J. C. 2012. Insights and new directions from demand-side approaches to technology innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management research. Journal of Management, 38(1): 346−374.

Sawhney, M., Verona, G., & Prandelli, E. 2005. Collaborating to create: The internet as a platform for customer engagement in product innovation. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 19(4): 4−17.

Stabell, C. B., & Fjeldstad, Ø. D. 1998. Configuring value for competitive advantage: On chains, shops, and networks. Strategic Management Journal, 19: 413−437.

Tripsas, M. 2008. Customer preference discontinuities: A trigger for radical technological change. Managerial and Decision Economics, 29: 79–97.

Wilson, K., & Doz, Y. L. 2011. Agile innovation: A footprint balancing distance and immersion. California Management Review, 53 (2): 6-26.

Ye, G., Priem, R. L., & Alshwer, A. 2012. Achieving demand-side synergy from strategic diversification: How combining mundane assets can leverage consumer utilities. Organization Science, 23(1): 207−224.

Zeng, M., & Williamson, P. J. 2007. Dragons at your door: How Chinese cost innovation is disrupting the rules of global competition. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.