Entrepreneurship and Innovation Today

Invest North Ireland says: Now's your chance to develop those 'big ideas'

Invest Northern Ireland's head of entrepreneurship development Sharon Polson is urging local entrepreneurs with a "big idea" to get their applications in for its new Propel programme by the closing deadline this Friday.  The programme aims to cultivate up to 15 new hi-growth export intensive businesses within 12 months. 

 "Without doubt, there will be many local people who have been thinking about or working on really innovative and revolutionary concepts, but just don't have the know-how or confidence to get them off the ground," she said. 

Information can be found  here .

www.propelprogramme.co.uk

Source: Now's your chance to develop those 'big ideas' Anonymous.  Belfast Telegraph.  Belfast: Sep 16, 2009.  Pg.  36

Walter Derzko , Smart Economy, Toronto

Author - Opportunity -45 Scenarios to Drive Your Business in Challenging Times, published by J. Wiley and Sons ISBN13: 978-0-470-73761-3 ISBN10: 0-470-73761-1 Consumer Release Date: December 29, 2009

Panel: Are Resources Allocated to Entrepreneurship Education Wasteful or Efficient? A Global Perspective

A panel discussion at this year’s AoM conference caught my attention: Are Resources Allocated to Entrepreneurship Education Wasteful or Efficient? A Global Perspective

 

Abstract

World-wide, the teaching of entrepreneurship is a rapidly increasing phenomenon. In line with this increase, over 20 studies investigating the effectiveness of entrepreneurship courses and programs, across 14 countries, have been undertaken in the last decade alone (McNally et al., 2009). Unfortunately, there is little agreement among authors as to: 1) the most appropriate outcomes to measure; and 2) the most appropriate research methods to ensure meaningful, generalizable results.

Conclusion

As such, it is not possible to say with any confidence, at this point, that we are employing educational resources to efficiently develop future entrepreneurs.

This workshop will bring together leading scholars in the field, who will work collaboratively with each other and with participants, to develop some common understanding regarding how to develop future comparative research, and from that, how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of entrepreneurship education, world-wide. Participants will come to the workshop with research project ideas and issues, and through the combination of interactive discussion, group work, and collaborative plan development, leave with either specific research plans, or a greater understanding of potential for improvements in entrepreneurship education. The specific goals of the workshop are: 1. To develop common understanding of the development needs for research on measurable outcomes of entrepreneurship education. 2. To increase the generalizability of research in the field. 3. To develop more international linkages among entrepreneurship education researchers. 4. To increase the likelihood of getting future entrepreneurship education research accepted into top journals.

Participants will be paired with leading scholars to address key issues, build understanding on developing research and entrepreneurship education.

 Source: Are Resources Allocated to Entrepreneurship Education Wasteful or Efficient? A Global Perspective

Walter Derzko

2009 Entrepreneurship Division Doctoral Consortium

Announcement and Application Information

2009 Entrepreneurship Division Doctoral Consortium

 

The Entrepreneurship Division will sponsor its annual consortium for doctoral students during the 2009 annual meetings of the Academy of Management in Chicago, IL.  The Consortium brings together doctoral students and experienced faculty to discuss opportunities and challenges as scholars in the field.  This year, the program will include panels and discussions on first job and career path considerations, job and service expectations in different contexts, theory development, and a host of other topics.  Students will also receive detailed and constructive feedback on their work from an accomplished scholar in the field. The Consortium will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, August 7, 2009 and continue until 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 8, 2009. 

The Consortium is open to doctoral students who have completed approximately two years of their Ph.D. program.  The ideal candidate will have finished his/her coursework and be engaged in preparing a dissertation proposal.  To apply, please submit the following four separate documents electronically to both Ted Baker ([email protected]) and Sharon Alvarez ([email protected]).

(1) An electronic file/Word document in which you furnish…

(a) Complete contact information (address, phone number, fax, and e-mail address),

(b) A statement of whether you have attended other doctoral consortia and, if so, which consortia and when, and

(c)   A statement saying that if you are admitted to the Consortium, you commit to attend ALL sessions (including dinner Friday night).

(2) A recommendation letter from your dean, department chair, or major advisor that verifies your (a) status/progress and (b) year in your school’s doctoral program.

(3) A current resume/CV.

(4) A “working paper.”  This paper must be on an entrepreneurship topic and is best a paper that you are moving towards publication or a detailed overview of your intended dissertation research.  The paper must NOT (a) exceed 35 pages (all inclusive), (b) be an accepted-for-publication/published manuscript, or (c) be a defended dissertation proposal.  The working paper is a key requirement for admission. 

Applications must be received on or before June 16, 2009.  Review of the application materials will begin on June 16, 2009.   The consortium will be limited to 30 Ph.D. students, with slots allocated based on application materials.  Questions should be sent to the Consortium Co-chairs, Ted Baker ([email protected]) and Sharon Alvarez ([email protected] ).

Please note: Acceptance into the consortium is via application only. Please do not register online.  We will notify all those accepted into the consortium, and they will be given a registration code to use.

 Ted Baker,Associate Professor; Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship , College of Management , NC State University. Raleigh, NC 27695; 919-513-7943; [email protected]

PDWs on Confronting Risk and Weak Signals for 2008 AoM Conference

Dear Colleagues in Healthcare Management listserv,

We have two PDWs for the upcoming 2008 AoM conference in Anaheim of particular healthcare management concerns. Scholars and practitioners will learn to make sound judgments in the face of risk and weak signals in the healthcare industry. Scholars and physicians will foreground the issue of medical error as a systems problem. Please forward the information to interested colleagues and students.

Best, Karlene Roberts and Kuo Yu

"Confronting Risk: Examining Its Acceptability, Short Sightedness, Blind Sightedness, and Prevention." (#291) This session will be held on Sunday, August 10, from 8:00AM - 12:00PM at the Hilton Anaheim in Pacific Pavilion C.

Errors and mishaps, whether human, system, or natural in origin, generate risk and uncertainty which organizations confront, manage, and accept. The Institute of Medicine’s 2000 and 2004 reports on medical errors, for example, set forth generative dialogues about risk awareness and risk acceptability.

The participants of this PDW examine the error rates, error origins, and risk acceptability of various industry contexts. Furthermore, we examine how confronting risk forces organizations to self-reflectively shift questioning from performance and efficiency to reliability and prevention. In particular, we examine the short sightedness and blind sightedness of risk management in the hope that we can rethink risk acceptability and prevention differently. The PDW participants would help organizations teach the general principles and abstractions behind the highly reliable practices developed to manage risk. Following the format of the above-mentioned PDW, audience members will have the opportunity to interact with panelist experts in break-out groups.

Organizers and Chairs include Kuo Frank Yu, Karlene H. Roberts and William H. Starbuck. Participants include John S. Carroll, Timothy J. Vogus, Claus Rerup, James Douglas Orton, Rangaraj Ramanujam, Daved Van Stralen, Gary Provansal, Dwayne Thomas, Frank J. Barrett, Sotirios Paroutis, Klaus Weber, Greg Bigley, Phil Hanlon, Pete Sarna, Philipe Baumard, Estella Hernandez Gillette, Febra Johnson, Anne Washington, Debra Andersen, and Jim Holbrook.

"Weak Signals? But I Thought They Were Noise!": Highly Reliable Practices in Action." (#181) This session will be held on Saturday, August 9, from 1:00PM - 4:00PM at the Anaheim Convention Center in 204B.

This PDW shifts focus from major trends to detecting weak signals. Many new questions surface as a result of this change in obsession. Why might today's institutional environments, technical advances, rapid information exchanges, and inter-organizational interdependence make detecting weak signals crucial? How might we unlearn the old mindsets that focus on large trends and explore new practices that detect minutiae? How do we amplify weak signals so that they can be noticed more easily? How do we organize ourselves, so relevant details noticed by front-runners are not prevented from reaching the top echelon? How do we contextualize and interpret weak signals in a timely manner, so they can assist organizational responses? How do we design policies, rules, and procedures in such a way that fosters a friendly institutional environment for weak signal detection? Through highly interactive break-out groups with our panel of experts, we will dialogue on these questions with audience members.

Organizers and Chairs include Kuo Frank Yu, Karlene H. Roberts and Gregory A. Bigley. Participants include Claus Rerup, John S. Carroll, Timothy J. Vogus, James Douglas Orton, Daved Van Stralen, Dwayne Thomas, Pete Sarna, Gary Provansal, Charles Watson, Febra Johnson, Debra Andersen, Dave Thomas, Mary Sally Matiella, and Philipe Baumard.

Workshop: Advanced Social Networks: Theoretical and Empirical Applications of Social Network Analysis PDW

2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Advanced Social Networks: Theoretical and Empirical Applications of Social Network Analysis PDWSponsored by the OMT and BPS Divisions of the Academy of Management; Saturday, August 9, 2008; 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Anaheim Convention Center (207A)

FULL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:

Coordinators:

• Jonathan Johnson; U. of Arkansas
• Joe Labianca; U of Kentucky
• Daniel J. Brass; U. of Kentucky
• Andrew Shipilov; INSEAD

Discussants:

• Stephen P Borgatti; U. of Kentucky
• Daniel J. Brass; U. of Kentucky
• Ronald S. Burt; U. of Chicago
• Robert L. Cross; U. of Virginia
• Jonathon N. Cummings; Duke U.
• Martin Gargiulo; INSEAD
• Martine Haas; Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
• Martin Kilduff; U. of Texas, Austin David Krackhardt; Carnegie Mellon U.
• Joe Labianca; U of Kentucky Ajay Mehra; U. of Kentucky
• David Obstfeld; U. of California, Irvine
• Jill Perry-Smith; Emory U
• Tim Rowley; U. of Toronto
• Giuseppe Soda; Bocconi U.

The Advanced Social Networks PDW will allow researchers who are currently engaged in social network research, or who have specific plans to incorporate social network concepts into existing streams of research, to interact with one another.  The goal of the PDW is to facilitate interaction among researchers engaged in network research.  We are especially hopeful that cross level interactions will occur, in keeping with the inherently multilevel nature of social network analysis.

WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS: Advanced registration is required.  Please email a brief description (50 words or less) of research interests specific to network analysis along with your preference of the top five discussants you would like to interact with to Heather Dixon-Fowler, [email protected]. Please apply no later than July 31st.

NOTE: This is an advanced social networks PDW, intended to allow researchers who are currently engaged in social network research to interact with one another.  If you are not currently involved in social network research, please sign up for the Introduction to Social Networks Research PDW which is being held on Sat., August 9th from 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. See the AOM Meeting Program for details.

Workshop> "Interactive Teaching Methods in International Management".

Cross posted from an Internation Management Discussion List

Dear colleagues,

we would like to invite you to an exciting PDW at this year’s Academy Meeting in Anaheim titled "Interactive Teaching Methods in International Management". This PDW will be held on

Sunday, August 10, 2008

9:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM;  at the Anaheim Convention Center, 212B

It will highlight several interactive teaching methods which have been used successfully in International Management teaching. Presenters will share their experiences with didactic elements such as role plays, simulations, experiential exercises and many other innovations for international management teaching.

In the PDW, participants will be able to familiarize themselves with the learning objectives of these approaches and how they can be implemented in International Management classes for creating an optimal learning experience. Selected simulations will be tried out with participants. In addition, the PDW is also designed to be a breeding ground for new ideas which are contributed by all participants. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to either Malika Richards, PennState, [email protected] or Gerhard Apfelthaler, FH Joanneum, [email protected].

Looking forward to seeing you in Anaheim!

Malika Richards

Gerhard Apfelthaler

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Upcoming Publication: The Deadly Sins of International Business (Palgrave MacMillan, http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?searchby=searchby&Qk=apfelthaler&submit.x=18&submit.y=13)

TOC: Vol.1 Issue 2 of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship

Please find below the table of content for the Vol.1 Issue 2 of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship.

- Opportunity creation as structuration: illustrations from three technology entrepreneurial initiatives Sanjay Bhowmick

- Commercialising technological innovations: a conceptual framework for designing entrepreneurial mentoring programmes Stephen Choo

- A gap-analysis model for identifying effective government support for New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in Thailand Thanaphol Virasa

- The co-evolution of technology and entrepreneurship: lessons for development from India and Korea Gita Surie, Mariano Torras

- Empirical evidence on a supply-driven Venture Capital market in the USA Avi Messica, Tamir Agmon

- Online marketplace service innovation: the case of Lelong.com.my Adham Khairul Akmaliah

The details can be found at

www.inderscience.com/ijte 

Dr. Francois Therin

Associate Professor, Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management Editor, International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship Euromed Marseille Ecole de management (AMBA & EQUIS accredited) Domaine de Luminy BP 921 - 13288 Marseille cedex 9 France tel +33(0) 491 827 779 - fax +33(0) 491 827 983 - Mobile +33(0) 603 343 691 [email protected]

www.technoentrepreneurship.com

Call For Papers McGill-Cornell Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship June 24-26, 2008. Montreal, Canada

Call For Papers McGill-Cornell Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship June 24-26, 2008.  Montreal, Canada

This second annual conference is intended to further the institutional approach to entrepreneurial studies.  An institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and how actors modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.

Sessions will be organized around these broad themes:

- the creation of new institutional structures to facilitate the development of new kinds of organizations;

- the use of symbols to legitimate novel organizations;

- the role of norms, values, and traditions in facilitating (or impeding) entrepreneurship;

- deinstitutionalization of an established practice as a form of entrepreneurial opportunity;

- the creation of standards and conventions to support new types of economic activities;

- the role of social movements in disrupting and constructing institutions and new kinds organizations;

- the effect of state institutions on entrepreneurial processes and outcomes.

Our desire is for this conference to be highly interactive, so we are limiting participation to a small number of (approx.  25 or so) paper presentations.  To promote interaction between senior and junior scholars, half of these slots will be reserved for papers submitted by more junior scholars.  Papers will be accepted based on a competitive submission process.  A small number of leading scholars will facilitate the paper sessions; these include W. Richard Scott, Howard Aldrich, and Pamela Tolbert, among others.

The conference is sponsored by the McGill Centre for Strategy Studies in Organization, and Entrepreneurship @ Cornell.  We will cover onsite accommodations for 2 nights for presenters (one room per accepted paper).  A select group of papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Work focused on the topic of institutions and entrepreneurship.

Please send a full paper to Hermann Juergens ([email protected]) by February 29th, 2008.  In a covering email, please indicate which theme from those above best describes your paper.  Decisions will be made by March 31st, 2008.

We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!

Robert J. David Wesley D. Sine Desautels Faculty of Management J. Thomas Clarke Professor of Entrepreneurship McGill University Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

CfP's First International Conference on Management and Economics: “Current Issues in Emerging Economies in Global Perspective” - (ICME 2008)

First International Conference on Management and Economics: “Current Issues in Emerging Economies in Global Perspective” - (ICME 2008)

Tirana, 28-29 March 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

Epoka University of Tirana in Albania, organizes First International Conference on Management and Economics: “Current Issues in Emerging Economies in Global Perspective”, which will take place on 28-29 March 2008 in Tirana, Albania.

The Conference Organising Committee invites academics, scholars and professionals to submit their papers for the Conference. Deadline for submission are shown below.

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:

Extended abstracts should be submitted by e-mail no later than February 28th, 2008, with a clear indication of the authors, affiliations and contacts in the separate page, to allow for the blind review process. Contact authors will be notified only upon acceptance of their extended abstract by March 7th, 2008.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Long-term differences in economic growth in developing and transition economies.
Income distribution, inequality and poverty in developing and transition economies.
Integration and trade: the effects of regional trade agreements, openness, and trade liberalisation on growth in developing and transition economies.
The role of norms, institutions and social capital in transition and developing economies.
Human Resources Management issues in developing and transition economies.
Financial Dimensions of the transition.
Marketing issues.
Enterprise development and corporate management in developing and transition economies.
Entrepreneurship in transition economies.
Macroeconomic issues in developing and transition economies: monetary and exchange rate policies; debt and sovereignty; foreign aid and foreign direct investment.
The political economy of transition: social capital, political context and the ethnic/religious/cultural dimension of development.
Financing development of transition economies and globalisation.
Public administration issues in transition.
Historical and International Relations dimension of the transition (Special Issue)

The Conference will focus on the economic, political and social aspects of development of Countries in Transition, with particular emphasis on Albania and all the Balkan countries.

CONTACT INFORMATION 
Web: http://www.epokauniversity.com/en/Conference/conference.php
Abstracts and papers should be sent to: e-mail: [email protected]
Adress: Rr.Durresit, ish Shkolla Partise, Tirana, Albania.
Tel:          +355 4 232 086      
                +355 4 222 077      
Fax: +355 4 222 117

CfP Journal of Commercial Biotechnology Special Issue on Bioentrepreneurship Education

Journal of Commercial Biotechnology CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Bioentrepreneurship Education

Guest editor: Professor Arlen Meyers, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and Bard Center for Entrepreneurship

Deadline for paper submission: 15th August 2008

Bioentrepreneurship is the process of creating value through bioscience innovation.  One of the challenges confronting policy makers, the bioscience industry and educators is providing enough management and leadership talent to sustain the growth of the industry.  This call for papers of a special issue of Journal of Commercial Biotechnology is seeking interdisciplinary research that investigates and reports on educational programs designed to teach the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to start and grow bioscience companies.  Since the art and practice of Bioentrepreneurship involves multiple disciplines we anticipate contributions that span and integrate leading edge thinking from a range of areas including science, management, business development, entrepreneurship, leadership and the law.  Specific sub-themes that are particularly relevant for (but not limited to) the special issue include:

o Curriculum design

o Pedagogical innovations

o Models of academic-industry integration

o Undergraduate programs

o Graduate and fellowship programs

o Joint degree programs such as MD/MBA or PhD/MBA

o Faculty development

o Student career development innovations

o Teaching Bioentrepreneurship with technology

o Barriers to innovation

Submissions that span multiple sub-themes and are of an integrative nature in their investigation of issues related to the overall theme are especially encouraged.  Theoretical, case study and normative manuscripts are suitable for the special issue and all research methods are appropriate.  All papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review.  Full notes for contributors can be found at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jcb/author_instructions.html.