CONFERENCE TOPICS
Systems approach is the basis for understanding complexity of entrepreneurial society, interconnectedness of social values, personal attributes and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and such broad research framework enables invitation for papers which may be conceptual or empirical in nature. Quantitative and qualitative papers are both welcome, especially if they are presenting research issues emerging from intersections of different knowledge pools.
Possible sub-topics include:
- Methodological challenges and research methods
- Opportunity generation and early business development
- Minority entrepreneurship
- Gender and copreneurship
- Technology and knowledge-based entrepreneurship
- Family business, succession and business transfer
- Entrepreneurship education, learning, and knowledge dissemination
- Culture and community
- Social entrepreneurship
- Green and sustainable entrepreneurship
- E ntrepreneurial finance for new and growing businesses
- Business models (growth, performance and internationalization)
- Corporate / intrapreneurship and strategizing
- Human and social capital
- Creative and artisan industries
- Rural enterprise, regional development and tourism
- Policy, support systems and infrastructure
- Critical perspectives on entrepreneurship (Best paper award by ISBJ)
- Authentic entrepreneurial leadership
- Accountability of Quadruple Helix actors (university, government, business sector, civil society) in building entrepreneurial society