AIE CONFERENCE 2013 - 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Category Innovation ;Entrepreneurship

Deadline: April 30, 2013 | Date: August 29, 2013-August 30, 2013

Venue/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom, U.K.

Updated: 2013-02-22 11:56:37 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

be held in Oxford, United Kingdom, on 29-30 August 2013. The Technology and Management

for Development Centre based in the University of Oxford Department for International

Development will host the event on the Oxford campus. 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. The main theme this year is ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive

and Sustainable Development’.

Distinguished keynote speakers for the AIE 2013 include:

Anne Miroux (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD)

Calestous Juma (Harvard University)

Luc Soete (Maastricht University and United Nations University)

Martin Bell (University of Sussex, Science and Technology Policy Research)

Xin Fang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Papers focusing on the following issues would be of particular interest:

1. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive Growth

a. Frugal innovation

b. Innovation in public services (e.g. agriculture, health, education, and water and sanitation)

c. Innovation, gender and inclusive development

d. ICT for inclusive growth

2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development

a. Entrepreneurship and Innovation for environmental sustainability

b. Eco-Innovation, sustainable consumption, and urban development

c. Innovative responses to climate change mitigation and adaptation to challenges

d. Agricultural innovation and food security

3. Open Innovation

a. Global innovation network and cross-border open innovation

b. University-Industry cooperation

c. Open business models

d. International innovation collaboration

4. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in and for Emerging Markets

a. Innovation outsourcing of multinational enterprises in emerging economies

b. Outward direct investment and knowledge sourcing by developing country MNEs

c. Industrial upgrading strategies and models

d. Development of strategic emerging industries in China

e. South-South cooperation and investments

f. Chinese entrepreneurs

5. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in and for Low Income Countries

a. Understanding, measuring and mapping innovation in low income countries

b. Innovation in SMEs and in the informal sector

c. Developing indigenous innovation capabilities in low income countries

d. States and governments, innovation policy and innovation in low income countries

6. International Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Management

a. Diffusion of innovation to and in low income countries

b. Highly skilled migration and international knowledge transfer

c. Trade, FDI and technology transfer in low income countries

d. Intellectual property rights and innovation

e. Patenting and licensing management

f. Crowd-sourcing IP applications and other innovations in technology transfer

7. New Trends in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

a. Technology-based venturing

b. Venture capital and entrepreneurial finance

c. New models of invention and venture finance, including crowd funding

d. Cross-sector initiatives: Capacity, governance, impact

e. Hidden innovation and innovation in the services sector

f. Innovation clusters and alternatives to clusters and innovation systems models

8. International Entrepreneurship

a. Regional and cluster entrepreneurship

b. The impact of globalization on entrepreneurship

c. Business model selection of start-ups

d. Founders’ business strategy decision

e. Conceptualizing corporate entrepreneurship strategy

9. Entrepreneurial Finance and Training

a. Angel investment and initial public offerings (IPO)

b. Merger and acquisition

c. Equity investments in entrepreneurship ventures

d. Capital stock and shareholdings

e. Features of entrepreneurship education

Award and Publication

The conference committee will award one Best Paper prize sponsored by the Journal of Chinese

Entrepreneurship. For those who are interested, their paper submitted to the conference can be

considered for publication in Oxford Development Studies following normal peer review process.

This should be indicated in the cover page of the submitted paper.

Submission of Papers

Authors are invited to submit a full paper or an extended paper outline (2-4 pages) online at

http://www.aieconference.org by 30 April 2013. Please submit the paper in electronic format (PDF

files only). The files should be names as [last name_first name of the presenting author_AIE2013].

The conference will provide a reduced conference rate for PhD students. Papers submitted by PhD

students should indicate this by adding [_PhD paper] to the file name. A letter from his/her PhD

supervisor confirming the student’s PhD status should also be included when register for the

conference.

Papers will be selected by the Programme Committee consisting of a panel of international scholars.

Authors will be informed by 30 May 2013 whether their papers are accepted. Full papers are

required by 31 July 2013.

For more information visit: http://www.aieconference.org.

For general information please contact AIE Support at: aiesem.tsinghua.edu.cn.

AIE 2013 Committees

International Advisory Committee

Philip Anderson (INSEAD, France)

Phil Clare (University of Oxford, UK)

Stefan Dercon (Uni. of Oxford and DFID, UK)

Valpy FitzGerald (University of Oxford, UK)

Jiaji Fu (Tsinghua University, China)

Anil Gupta (University of Maryland, US)

Gary Jefferson (Brandeis University, US)

Martin Kenney (University of California, US)

Justin Yifu Lin (China)

Bengt-Ake Lundvall (Alborg Uni., Denmark)

Jaideep Prabhu (University of Cambridge, UK)

Yingyi Qian (Tsinghua University, China)

Henry Rowen (Stanford University, US)

Mari Sako (University of Oxford, UK)

Anna Lee Saxenian (UC Berkeley, US)

Peter Tufano (University of Oxford, UK)

Andrew Van de Ven (University of Minnesota, US)

Shaker A. Zahra (University of Minnesota, US)

Scientific Committee

J.T.LI (HK, China)

Roger Chen (US)

Eugenio Corti (Italy)

Elias G. Carayannis (US)

Oliver Gottschalg (France)

Becky Hanlin (UK)

Richard Heeks (UK)

Junseok Hwang (South Korea)

Joseph I. Onochie (US)

Xue Jinujin (Japan)

Ola Jull Sørensen (Denmark)

Gracy JY Yang (Australia)

David Kaplan (South Africa)

Donna Kelly (US)

Michael Kitson (UK)

Jun Li (UK)

Yong Li (US)

Haiyang Li (US)

Louie Liu (US)

Jonathan Michie (UK)

Pierre Mohnen (The Netherlands)

Alison Noble (UK)

Fei Qin (UK)

Virginia Trigo (Portugal)

Sibin WU (US)

Iris Xiaohong Quan (US)

Haibin Yang (HK, China)

Dirk Willem te Velde (UK)

Hubert Schmitz (UK)

Yongjiang Shi (UK)

Programme Committee

University of Oxford:

Xiaolan Fu (Local co-chair)

Marc Ventresca (Local co-chair)

Doug Gollin

Alex Nicholls

Mafalda Picarra

Diego Sanchez-Ancochea

Eric Thun

Giacomo Zanello

Tsinghua University:

Jian Gao (Co-chair)

Qin Lan

Yuan Cheng

Xudong Gao

Jizhen Li