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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Hello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>I
thought you would like to know that the response to the call for papers for the<b>
</b></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>7th
European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE-2012) </span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>being held at
Escola Superior de Gestão e Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém,
Portugal on the<b> 20-21 September 2012 </b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>has been excellent, but as usual we
have had a number of requests for extensions. Therefore we are holding the call
open until <b>16<sup>th</sup> of March 2012. </b>So now would be a good time to
circulate the call for papers to your contacts one more time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>We
only require an abstract at this time and you will find a full call for papers,
including a pdf to download at:<o:p></o:p></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"'><a
href="http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2012/ecie12-call-papers.htm">http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2012/ecie12-call-papers.htm</a>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><img
border=0 width=128 height=192 id="Picture_x0020_1"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCFB84.773B1F80" alt=LI-Innovation-FINAL-FRONT-400x600></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'> available
from our bookshop at: <a href="http://www.academic-bookshop.com/">http://www.academic-bookshop.com/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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