CONFERENCE THEME
Entrepreneurial Universities
SUB-THEMES
Enterprise Education: Fostering Knowledge Intensive Student Entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Path to entrepreneurship in universities
- Measuring impact and effects of enterprise education
- Curriculum development for entrepreneurial universities
- Intrapreneurship
Competitiveness, Growth and Wellbeing through Innovations
- Approaches towards Innovation Creation and Development
- Innovation Commercialization Process
- Dynamic capabilities and firm performance
- The role of entrepreneurs in promoting and sustaining innovation
- New methods for increasing innovation, creativity and sustainability
- New approaches towards innovation generation
Knowledge Partnerships and University-Business Cooperation
- Universities in the regional innovation chain
- Understanding value creation in University-Industry Relationships
- Future trends for universities in University-Business Cooperation
- Entrepreneurial mind-set in knowledge partnerships
- Business Accelerators
- Dynamics of knowledge networks and partnerships
Entrepreneurship and Development
- Creating the entrepreneurship ecosystem
- The role of micro-finance in developing entrepreneurship
- Role of enterprise education in the developing world
- Necessity-driven vs. opportunity/mission-driven entrepreneurship
- Role of business angels in start-ups in developing countries
Science to Business Marketing
- University-Industry partnerships and networks
- Best Practice in University-Industry collaboration
- Industry Track
- Value creating processes in market-oriented technology transfer
- Developing and assessing research projects / technology evaluation
- The role and management of organisations involved in technology transfer and commercialisation