2nd Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE 2012)

The Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship covers topics such as:

• Managing and Leveraging Complexity, Creativity and Innovation in SMEs
• Leveraging e-skills for innovation in the knowledge society
• Leadership and Management practices that can be applied to SMEs
• Trust, Respect, Culture and Collaboration Issues for SMEs in SEE vs. other regions (EU and other)
• SME Business process modeling
• SME Knowledge management and technology transfer
• Business incubation management and leadership
• New Technology Ventures Financing
• SMEs’ Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Driver
• Human Resources Practices for promoting innovation for SMEs
• Entrepreneurial Universities and Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters
• Governmental and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation
• University – Industry collaboration
• Entrepreneurship education
• SMEs and the role of the Innovation Zone (business centers and incubators)
• ICT and SME Regional competitiveness
• Innovative Supply Chain Management practices in SEE
• Intangibles Valuation and Intellectual Property Rights
• Information Technology proliferation in SEE SMEs
• Innovative Supply Chains
• Innovation Clusters, Technology Transfer and Social Entrepreneurship
• Opportunities and barriers for closer cooperation between South East European SMEs in Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Strategic Integration vs. Flexibility and SME Competitiveness
• Science & Technology Parks and EICs
• Social Networking as Driver of EICs formation
• Benchmarking of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Best Practices in the region
• Young and Women Entrepreneurs development via EICs
• The role of the State and Public Policy with regards to SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Innovation policy in SMEs
• From innovation to businesses: commercializing processes with students and/or spin offs
• Innovation in enterprise education including methods and business succession
• Campus entrepreneurship
• Models of business incubation, business successions and transfers, promotion and implementation, projects
• Entrepreneurship models such as growth entrepreneurship, portfolio
• Creativity in entrepreneurship and in enterprise education
• Research into entrepreneurship intentions, motivation, attitudes, identit
• Measuring impacts and effects