International Entrepreneurship Forum 2013 (IEF) in Vilnius, Lithuania
4 September 2013 - 6 September 2013
United Arab Emirates
Conference Overview
The 12th IEF conference on the theme of Social Sustainability and Economic Security: The Agenda for Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 4-6 September, 2013. This conference is being organised by the International Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ICER), Essex Business School, and University of Essex in co-operation with the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania and with the partnership of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Local Employment and Economic Development at Paris, France. This conference will provide a platform for a resolution of the problems of social sustainability and economic security in our times.
Governments, institutions, industry and society continue to juggle with established instruments and tools to grapple with the uncertain present and the unknown future. Banks do not lend but corporate are awash with money; governments wish to reduce budget deficits but apply greater pressures on sometimes the most vulnerable in society; bonuses abound while the Fannie Mae’s disintegrate; economies seek innovative solutions but governments and firms ignore possibilities for democratising opportunity search and realisation; we seek global solutions but appear to entrench local problem; and the world is seen sometimes as technologically flat but spatially and contextually spiky. These antinomies of our times call for new forms of engagement that affect the way we live now and the legacy that we leave behind for future generations.
We can turn to effective and productive entrepreneurship to act as major catalysts for social and economic progress. But to consider entrepreneurship simply as a one-constituency phenomenon for new business creation, self-employment, or indeed as the development of SMEs, constrain us with the interests of the few. The few may indeed be those that shine a light in the darkness but we need to take the many with us. The ‘many’ in entrepreneurship are the Schumpeterian entrepreneurs in business and in government, in community activities, in music and theatre and in education. Sometimes their interests coalesce to provide specific answers for one group; at other times it is in their unique entrepreneurial actions that we derive social and economic value. The conference theme has been set to discuss, debate and disseminate these issues based on research, policy formulation and good practice.
IEF conferences are different from many other important events in that the deliberation and exchange of ideas and evidence are considered more valuable than just their singular academic articulation. We hope you will join us in this attempt to strengthen our economic security through different forms of innovation and entrepreneurial engagement that embrace social cohesion and sustainability. We look forward to sharing your ideas and insights in the elegant surrounds of an emergent Baltic environment and in the historic city of Vilnius.
Conference Themes
To help open up the variety of issues connected to the main theme of the conference, this call for papers welcomes contributions covering any of the following or related sub-themes:
Sub-Theme 1: Sustainable cities and entrepreneurship
Sub-Theme 2: Productive and destructive entrepreneurship and economic security
Sub-Theme 3: Social cohesion and social innovation
Sub-Theme 4: Technology change and social progress
Sub-Theme 5: Securing economic sustainability through social & community enterprise
Sub-Theme 6: Public policy, economic security for sustainable entrepreneurship
Sub-Theme 7: Connected and networked people, organisations and institutions
Sub-Theme 8: Business models and strategic management for sustainable futures
Sub-Theme 9: Financing responsible enterprise for our economic security
Sub-Theme 10: Philanthropic intervention, social responsibility and economic benefit
This is not an exhaustive list, and papers are welcome in other related areas. Please indicate in your abstract which theme you’d like to contribute to. IEF committee withholds the final right to arrange the track allocation depending on the popularity of each theme.
The 12th IEF conference on the theme of Social Sustainability and Economic Security: The Agenda for Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 4-6 September, 2013. This conference is being organised by the International Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ICER), Essex Business School, and University of Essex in co-operation with the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania and with the partnership of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Local Employment and Economic Development at Paris, France. This conference will provide a platform for a resolution of the problems of social sustainability and economic security in our times.
Governments, institutions, industry and society continue to juggle with established instruments and tools to grapple with the uncertain present and the unknown future. Banks do not lend but corporate are awash with money; governments wish to reduce budget deficits but apply greater pressures on sometimes the most vulnerable in society; bonuses abound while the Fannie Mae’s disintegrate; economies seek innovative solutions but governments and firms ignore possibilities for democratising opportunity search and realisation; we seek global solutions but appear to entrench local problem; and the world is seen sometimes as technologically flat but spatially and contextually spiky. These antinomies of our times call for new forms of engagement that affect the way we live now and the legacy that we leave behind for future generations.
We can turn to effective and productive entrepreneurship to act as major catalysts for social and economic progress. But to consider entrepreneurship simply as a one-constituency phenomenon for new business creation, self-employment, or indeed as the development of SMEs, constrain us with the interests of the few. The few may indeed be those that shine a light in the darkness but we need to take the many with us. The ‘many’ in entrepreneurship are the Schumpeterian entrepreneurs in business and in government, in community activities, in music and theatre and in education. Sometimes their interests coalesce to provide specific answers for one group; at other times it is in their unique entrepreneurial actions that we derive social and economic value. The conference theme has been set to discuss, debate and disseminate these issues based on research, policy formulation and good practice.
IEF conferences are different from many other important events in that the deliberation and exchange of ideas and evidence are considered more valuable than just their singular academic articulation. We hope you will join us in this attempt to strengthen our economic security through different forms of innovation and entrepreneurial engagement that embrace social cohesion and sustainability. We look forward to sharing your ideas and insights in the elegant surrounds of an emergent Baltic environment and in the historic city of Vilnius.
Conference Themes
To help open up the variety of issues connected to the main theme of the conference, this call for papers welcomes contributions covering any of the following or related sub-themes:
Sub-Theme 1: Sustainable cities and entrepreneurship
Sub-Theme 2: Productive and destructive entrepreneurship and economic security
Sub-Theme 3: Social cohesion and social innovation
Sub-Theme 4: Technology change and social progress
Sub-Theme 5: Securing economic sustainability through social & community enterprise
Sub-Theme 6: Public policy, economic security for sustainable entrepreneurship
Sub-Theme 7: Connected and networked people, organisations and institutions
Sub-Theme 8: Business models and strategic management for sustainable futures
Sub-Theme 9: Financing responsible enterprise for our economic security
Sub-Theme 10: Philanthropic intervention, social responsibility and economic benefit
This is not an exhaustive list, and papers are welcome in other related areas. Please indicate in your abstract which theme you’d like to contribute to. IEF committee withholds the final right to arrange the track allocation depending on the popularity of each theme.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship