GEIRC2019

Call for Papers

Paper submissions are due on 14 January 2019

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) will co-host the conference in Darden’s new Rosslyn Facility on 7-8 May 2019. This will be the tenth annual gathering of the conference which rotates between North America (Virginia), Europe (Cambridge), and Asia (Hong Kong). This global conference aims to promote worldwide scholarly collaborations across regions, continents and academic communities.

We welcome unpublished working papers from all research areas within the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation. Examples of suitable topics for the conference include:

• •new venture formation processes, financing, and strategies;
• •R&D and project management, performance metrics, and portfolio evaluation;
• •institutions and policies to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation;
• •markets for ideas, innovation, and other intangibles;
• •regional and global dynamics of entrepreneurship and innovation;
• •university and science-based innovation and technology transfer;
• •continuous improvement and new process development; new product development, development processes, and service design;
• •patents, licensing, and intellectual property;
• •business model innovation (e.g., operations, marketing, or network innovation);
• •open innovation and distributed innovation; and
• •market and financial impact of innovation.

(Abstracted from Management Science’s definition of entrepreneurship and innovation.)

The conference promises to provide a vigorous and lively discussion about current research in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation from a global perspective. Please submit an electronic version of your full paper no later than Monday, 14 January 2019, using the form located at this link:

https://virginia.az1.qualtrics...

The papers will be reviewed by the conference committee and the authors will receive notice by 15 March 2019. The conference committee also extends an invitation to interested scholars to attend the conference regardless of whether a paper is submitted.