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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>This
is a <b>first</b> call for papers for the<b> 7th European Conference on
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE-2012) </b>being held at Escola Superior
de Gestão e Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal on the<b>
20-21 September 2012.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>This call is
open until </span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>2<sup>nd</sup>
of March 2012</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>.
Further details can be found at: <a
href="http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2012/ecie12-call-papers.htm">http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2012/ecie12-call-papers.htm</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Innovation
and entrepreneurship are tightly coupled concepts. Innovation involves
designing new ways of conceptualising, developing and producing a range of
goods and services which society requires. Although inventing new things may be
seen as part of innovation, innovation does not exclusively rely on new
discoveries. Rather it can stem from simply seeing new ways of satisfying
demand. Thus innovation is not a synonym for invention and almost anyone can
come up with new innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Entrepreneurship
adds a further dimension to how new ideas are converted into goods and
services. Entrepreneurship is sometimes said to be a mindset required to
convert innovation into a real business situation which will deliver benefits
to the stakeholders. Entrepreneurship is always driven by an individual or a
small group of individuals who are referred to as entrepreneurs and who are
sometimes colloquially referred to as the ‘movers and shakers’ in
our society. Thus the entrepreneur configures the various factors of products
to that they become a viable proposition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Publication
opportunity:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Papers
accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings,
subject to author registration and payment. Selected papers will also be
considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Innovation and
Regional Development, journals published by Inderscience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>The
advisory group for the conference invites submissions of both academic and
practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide range of scholarly
approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative,
quantitative and critical methods. Academic research, case studies and
work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for
roundtable discussions non-academic contributions and product demonstrations
based on the main themes are also invited.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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