International Conference on University-Based Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Aims

Entrepreneurial activities either commercial or non-commercial ones are crucial drivers of both the economic and the social development of a region. Universities, as the sources of innovative ideas and new discoveries should take a leading role in initializing, catalyzing, and coordinating such activities to  strengthen the regional innovation system and to integrate the stakeholders of the region into a wider international innovation system. By taking the lead in this process universities should solve socioeconomic problems that have the potential of helping communities in the region and also around the world. Those institutions that choose to be initiators, catalysts and coordinators of their regional innovation system should make changes on multiple domains, most importantly in the mindset of the stakeholders of the innovation system. How it can be pursued and what are the pitfalls of such a process is still to be discovered, debated and resolved. The conference aims to address two important domains: how to drive and manage a process of institutional transformation towards a more entrepreneurial model, and how university-based ecosystems can be nurtured in cultural, economic and socio-political environments that may not be naturally conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation.

Plenary speakers

Aldo Geuna (University of Torino, Italy) Robert Huggins (Cardiff University, UK) Helen Lawton Smith (Birkbeck, University of London and University of Oxford, UK) Zoltan J. Acs (George Mason University, USA) Annamária Inzelt (IKU Innovation Research Centre, Hungary) Erik Stam (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline •October 31st, 2016 Notification of Acceptance •November15th, 2016 Full Paper submission Deadline •January 15th, 2017 Registration Deadline •November 15th, 2016 Conference Date •December 1st-2nd, 2016

Abstract/Paper Submission

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit abstract and/or full paper for presentation that shall be written and presented in English. The abstract should be no longer than 3,000 characters including spaces and should present the purpose of the research, the relevance of the problem, the methods, the main findings, and 5 to 7 keywords. Papers should have the following structure: introduction, literature review and conceptualization, methodology, results, and conclusion. The text should be 10-15 pages, 27,000-36,000 characters Times New Roman 12, single spacing. All articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically. Accepted abstracts and papers from registered participants will be electronically published and further evaluated for possible submission to the special issue of The Hungarian Journal of Marketing and Management.

Abstract submission/registration and further information at: http://icuberd.ktk.pte.hu/

Organized by

Simonyi Business and Economic Development Center (BEDC) Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Center (RIERC) MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group Financial and Institutional Reforms to build an Entrepreneurial Society (FIRES) University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics

Call for papers and program (pdf.) »