<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>*** Second Call for Papers ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>The 7th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Regional Development (ICEIRD 2014)</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>5-6 June 2014, Hilton Hotel | Nicosia, Cyprus</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b><a href="https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>DEADLINES:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Abstract submission, January 20, 2014</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Full paper submission, March 1, 2014</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><b></b><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Conference Themes:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Igniting Regional Economies - Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in South East Europe</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>Energy Enabled: The Innovation and Cooperation Hotbed of South Eastern Europe</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">In the face of fragile economic recovery following the economic and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">financial crisis of 2008, many firms all around the world continue to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">invest in growth-enhancing activities to achieve a sustainable</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">development. While the crisis has heavily hit all aspects of business</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">vested interests, investments in innovation, entrepreneurship and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">regional partnership have been the key priority to ensuring a strong</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and stable economic growth.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The objective of the conference is to gather decision makers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(government, ministries and state agencies), innovation experts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(universities, research and development centres, technology transfer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">centres, start-up centres) and practitioners (smes, business</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">incubators and business support organisations) to generate discussion</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and exchange on the potential of entrepreneurship promotion and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">innovation to national and regional competitiveness.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Creativity, Complexity and Competitiveness Issues for Small and Medium</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Enterprises (SMEs) in SEE vs. other regions (EU and other)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Leveraging e-skills for innovation in the knowledge society</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Managing and Leveraging Complexity, Creativity and Innovation in SMEs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Trust, Respect, Culture and Collaboration Issues for SMEs in SEE vs.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> other regions (EU and other)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Leadership and Management practices that can be applied to SMEs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* SME Knowledge management and technology transfer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* SME Business process modeling</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* New Technology Ventures Financing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Business incubation management and leadership</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Human Resources Practices for promoting innovation for SMEs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">South East European Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* SMEs' Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Driver</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Opportunities and barriers for closer cooperation between South East</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> European SMEs in Innovation & Entrepreneurship:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Strategic Integration vs. Flexibility and SME Competitiveness</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Innovation Clusters, Technology Transfer and Social Entrepreneurship</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Social Networking as Driver of EICs formation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Science & Technology Parks and EICs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Young and Women Entrepreneurs development via EICs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Benchmarking of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Best Practices in the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> region</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Innovation policy in SMEs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Technology Innovation, Transfer and Commercialization across</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Governement, University, Industry domains</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* The role of the State and Public Policy with regards to SME Innovation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> and Entrepreneurship</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Governmental and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Entrepreneurial Universities and Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Entrepreneurship education</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* University - Industry collaboration</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* ICT and SME Regional competitiveness</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* SMEs and the role of the Innovation Zone (business centers and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> incubators)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Intangibles Valuation and Intellectual Property Rights</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Innovative Supply Chain Management practices in SEE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Innovative Supply Chains</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Information Technology proliferation in SEE SMEs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">ICEIRD 2014 invites submissions of papers related to all the topics of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">interest of the conference. Papers that address collaborations between</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">industry and academia, case studies as well as experience reports on</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">any of the conference themes are welcome. For more information on the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">conference topics, visit the ICEIRD 2014 webpage</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(<a href="https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a>).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">SUBMISSIONS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">*Abstract submission</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Authors are first requested to submit an about 100 words long abstract</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">by January 20, 2014. Upon acceptance of the abstract by January 31, 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">the authors should proceed to submit a full paper as per the instructions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">below.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Full Papers (for review)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Authors are requested to submit a full paper of 6-10 pages in either</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format using the template found on the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">ICEIRD 2014 webpage (<a href="https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a>). The template has</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">all the styles required for formatting the text. The easiest way to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">prepare the camera ready is to download the template, delete all</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">exixting text, add your unformatted text and use the styles (top-left</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">drop down menu) to format it. Only papers in this format will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">published. Submitted papers, which will go under blind review by at</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">least two referees, must be submitted electronically through the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">EasyChair Conference System:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Camera Ready Papers (after acceptance)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Following acceptance, authors are requested to sumbit a camera-ready</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">paper using the template found on the website</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(<a href="https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a>) to the secretariat of ICEIRD2014 by</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">email (<a href="mailto:iceird2014@seerc.org">iceird2014@seerc.org</a>) in both Microsoft Word or PDF format.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Guidelines for Presentations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Each presentation will last 20 minutes (15 + 5 minutes for questions).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">All rooms are fully equiped. Presenters will be requested to upload</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">their presentation at least 15 minutes before the start of their</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">session. Presenters could also use their own laptop. Techinal support</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">will be provided.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The Conference Proceedings, including all papers presented, will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">published as a SEERC book edited by the Conference Chairs.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">* Post-Conference Special Journal Issues</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Selected high quality papers from the conference will be recommended</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">for publication in the special issues of international journals. For</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">more information please visit the ICEIRD 2014 webpage</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(<a href="https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy">https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The official language of the conference is English.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Publication is dependent on at least one author registering to attend</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">ICEIRD 2014.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Submissions should be submitted to the easychair account on or before</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">the deadline: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Abstract submission (mandatory): 20th January 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Notification of abstract submission: 31st January 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Full paper submission: 1st of March 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Notification of paper acceptance: 15th of March 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Earlybird registration: 31th of March 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Camera ready paper submission: 31th of March 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">CONFERENCE CHAIRS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Prof. George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus - General</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Prof. Panos H. Ketikidis, CITY College - International Faculty of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">University of Sheffield, Greece - Co-Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Stavriana A. Kofteros, Special Entrepreneurship & RDI Adviser,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Democratic Rally (DISY), Cyprus - Co-Chair</div><div><br></div></body></html>