ISSUE48: FEBRUARY-APRIL 2007
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Call for submissions to two entrepreneurship workshops
UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is calling for contributions to two workshops on entrepreneurship and development to be held in Helsinki and Maastricht later this year.
The first, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Concepts, Measurements and Impacts, will be held in Helsinki August 21-23 and will focus on developing a better understanding of the role of entrepreneurship in economic development, creating a platform to chart current thinking and sharing ideas for future research, with specific reference to developing countries.
Workshop topics include:
- The concept and measurement of entrepreneurship in the context of developing countries.
- The channels through which entrepreneurship drives economic structural transformation and growth and institutional development.
- The advantages and disadvantages of small, micro, and medium sized firms as vehicles for entrepreneurship in developing countries.
- The impact of female entrepreneurs, and the constraints and opportunities they face in developing countries.
- Entrepreneurship’s spatial contexts: local and regional development, and urbanization.
- The policy challenge for supporting and developing entrepreneurship.
Abstracts and a CV should be sent to entrepreneur2@wider.unu.edu before March 14.
The second workshop, Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation adn Development – a collaboration with UNU Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) – will be held in Maastricht October 30-31.
This event will focus on the role of entrepreneurs in the quantity, quality, commercialisation and adoption of technological innovations in developing countries and the implications for economic growth, trade poverty and inequality.
Workshop topics will include:
- What is the role of entrepreneurship in technological innovation and acceleration of economic growth?
- How does this role differ between developed and developing countries?
- What incentive structures exist for entrepreneurs in developing countries and how are these determined by policies, institutions, finance and expectations?
- Are science parks, incubators and university support networks for entrepreneurship appropriate models to stimulate entrepreneurial innovation in developing countries?
Abstracts and a CV should be sent to entrepreneur@wider.unu.edu before May 30.
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