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Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2017
Hosted By Novancia Business School Paris France
21-22 September 2017 Edited by Christophe Loué Sonia Ben Slimane
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Contents Paper Title
Author(s)
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Preface
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Committee
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Biographies
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Influence of Governance on the Effectiveness of Formal Women Entrepreneurial Networks (FWENs)
Deborah Ajumobi and Michael Kyobe
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Factors Shaping Strategy Logic of Venture Capitalists: An Exploratory Study Using SMOCS Model and Cognitive Mapping Techniques
Smida Ali and Mezrioui Wafa
12
Chinese Technological Innovation in the Context of the One Belt One Road Initiative
Rafif Al Sayed and Jianhua Yang
22
Autonomous Vehicles: Are they “Riding” in a Blue Ocean?
Fabio Antonialli, Bruna Habib Cavazza, Rodrigo Marçal Gandia, Isabelle Nicolaï, Arthur de Miranda Neto, Joel Yutaka Sugano and André Luiz Zambalde
31
Fuzzy Rule-Based Decision Support System for Technology Start-Up Selection Problem
Jbid Arsenyan
40
Innovation Supporting Structure: A Vital Factor of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Hooting Asheghi Oskooee
50
Wireless Waste Monitoring and Smart Water Management: Analyzing Corporate Foresight for Internet-Of-Things
Simone Asmussen, Frederik Steen Jensen, Pedram Soltani and Torben Tambo
58
Which SMEs has the Best Marketing Performance?
Rifelly Dewi Astuti, Adi Zakaria Afiff and Tengku Ezni Balqiah
68
Is Social Responsibility a Question of Marketing? An Exploratory Study on Non-Profit-Seeking Behaviour in Academia
Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira, Fernando Moreira, Frederico Branco, José Martins, Ramiro Gonçalves
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Innovative Mobility Solutions: Are These Service or Method Innovations?
Scarlat
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Innovative Ecosystem of Research Universities in Kazakhstan: Mechanisms of Development
Saule Bishimbayeva
Facilitating Innovation Through Design Thinking and Prospective Ergonomics
Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine, Souad Latorre and Florence Mourey
100
The Relationship Between Management Models and Organizational Innovativeness
Pinar Buyukbalci and Zayneb Boukari
107
Green Innovation Development: A Multiple Case Study Analysis
Francesco Calza, Adele Parmentola and Ilaria Tutore
116
Determining Factors of Voluntariness in Sustainable Environmental Innovation (Eco-Processes) and Their Certification: Agri-Food Sector
Rocio Carrillo Labella, Fatiha Fort, Manuel Parras Rosa and Eva Mª Murgado Armenteros
125
Entrepreneurial Opportunities Detection: An Individual and Organizational Factors Model
Dante Castro-Solano, Ana Serrano-Bedia and Concepción López-Fernández
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Management and Business of Autonomous Vehicles: A Systematic Integrative Bibliographic Review
Bruna Habib Cavazza, Rodrigo Marçal Gandia, Fabio Antonialli, Isabelle Nicolaï, André Luiz Zambalde, Joel Yutaka Sugano and Arthur de Miranda Neto
141
Chinese Merchant Manuals and Entrepreneurship Education
Greg Clydesdale
150
The Impact of Research-Based Spin-Offs Companies as Knowledge Conveyers in Innovation Networks
Oscarina Conceição, Cristina Sousa and Margarida Fontes
158
Poverty and Innovation in Education: Stories From Indigenous Professionals of Malungon, Philippines
Theresa Constantino, Renetchie Martinez, Noel Ramos, Gladys Maybel Yap, and Almin Abejaron
Applying a Research University’s Leadership Model in a Regional Innovation Ecosystem
Stephen Cross
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A Sub-Regional Innovation Ecosystem? Life Sciences and Health in the Swansea Bay City Region
Gareth Huw Davies, Sian Roderick and Mike Williams
182
Entrepreneurial Team Dynamics (in a Country Under Financial Crisis) and new Venture Creation Process: An Exploratory Study Within a Startup Incubator
Elli Diakanastasi, Theodora Trachana and Angeliki Karagiannaki
190
Formalizing the Role of Roadside Artisans for National Development: The Entrepreneurial Training Approach
Smile Dzisi and Franklin Odoom
201
Influences of a Participatory Strategy Process on Entrepreneurship Education Practices
Leena Eskola, Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, Kaija Arhio, Harri Jokela and Matti Muhos
209
Social Innovation and Networks: Linkages and Challenges
Maria de Fátima Ferreiro and Cristina Sousa
217
The Design-Driven Innovation Process in Start-Ups: The Role of Incubators
Anna Filippi and Robin van Oorschot
225
Entrepreneurial Universities, Their Reputations and Their Websites: An Online Content Analysis
Michael Fowle and Cecile Vassaux
231
Organisational Innovation in SMEs: The Role of Partnerships
Mário Franco and Heiko Haase
240
Financial Incentives for Employees to Develop new Ideas and Their Importance to Stimulate Creativity in Portuguese Firms
Ângela Freitas, Aldina Correia, Alexandra Braga and Vítor Braga
248
Public Policy and Dysfunctions of National Innovation Systems
Oleg Golichenko
257
Signs of Growth: An Exploration of UK Businesses who Successfully use Crowdfunding
Emma Green, Arun Sukumar and Kaushik Pandya
265
Collective Entrepreneurship in Health Organisations: The Influence of Leadership
Heiko Haase and Mário Franco
272
How to Identify Micro-Firm Owner-Manager's Potential Growth Intentions
Kai Hänninen, Harri Jokela, Martti Saarela and Matti Muhos
280
Deployment of a Business and Innovation Centre to Foster Cooperation Between Europe and Brazil
Johanna Haunschild, Gustavo Melo, Ronald Orth, Markus Will and Holger Kohl
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Telling Tales to Support Innovativeness
Pia Hurmelinna, Sari Alatalo and EevaLiisa Oikarinen
300
The Effect of Cybercrime on Romanian SMEs in the Context of Wannacry Ransomware Attacks
Alexandra Ioanid, Cezar Scarlat and Gheorghe Militaru
307
Reframing the Problem: Design Thinking Essentials
Alexis Jacoby
314
Engaging Namibian Informal Settlement Community in Social Innovation
Jana Jagodick, Etuna Nashima and Jerry Courvisanos
323
Healthy Returns: Leadership Learning and Innovation Climate in the UK Health Sector
Carol Jarvis, Selen Kars and Rob Sheffield
330
Characteristics of Exporting Micro-Enterprises in Northern Sparsely Populated Areas: Statistics Overview
Harri Jokela, Eija-Riitta Niinikoski and Matti Muhos
340
Entrepreneurial Decisions and Trust Building in Networked Business Environments
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Entrepreneurial Opportunity and the Cognitive Style: More Innovative or More Adaptive?
Alexandros Kakouris and Panagiotis Liargovas
356
Interpersonal Relationships as key Drivers of Cluster Performance
Paul Kayley
362
Entrepreneurial Education at Russian Universities: Trends and Challenges of Formation
Alexey Kluyev, Anna Bagirova, Alexander Yashin and Lyubov Zabokritskaya
368
Evidence on Innovation in Public-Private Partnership Project
Lucia Xiaoyan Liu and Li Liu
375
The Language of Successful Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Starting Point for the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Matthew Lynch, Uladzimir Kamovich, Gunnar Andersson and Martin Steinert
384
Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Education, Prior Entrepreneurial Exposure, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention
Mmakgabo Justice Malebana and Stanislous Zindiye
392
Intuition and Entrepreneurship: Together or Separately in Management Practice?
Kamila Malewska
400
Continuous Improvement Innovation in Philippine Education: A Reflective Approach
Renetchie Martinez and Gladys Maybel Yap
410
Effectiveness of Collaboration on Innovation Activity in the EU Region
Anna Matras-Bolibok, Piotr Bolibok and Tomasz Kijek
417
Technology Transfer Barriers Encountered by R&D Organisations
Adam Mazurkiewicz
424
Comparative Analysis of German and Brazilian Innovation Systems to Improve Binational Cooperation
Gustavo Melo, Johanna Haunschild, Ronald Orth, Markus Will and Holger Kohl
433
Social Entrepreneurs’ Communities as a way to Sustainably Develop Smart Territories
Ana Melro and Lídia Oliveira
441
Social Innovation in the Brazilian Wine Chain: Co-Creation of Innovative Ideas in Processes, Products and Services in a Multidisciplinary Environment
Margarete Menegotto, Elisabeth Pereira and António Fernandes
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Exploring Survival and Failure on the Edge of Commercialisation in Australian Technology-Based StartUps
Matti Muhos, Richard Oloruntoba, Beverly Wagner and Anu Bask
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The Contextual Characteristics of Finnish and Californian Technology-Based Start-Ups: From Conception and Development to the Edge of Commercialisation
Matti Muhos, Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, Del Foit and Lada Rasochova
470
Commercialization of Traditional and Regional Products as Innovation on the Market
Agnieszka Palka, Joanna Newerli-Guz, Aleksandra Wilczynska, Agnieszka Rybowska and Sebastian Wawszczak
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Innovation, Co-creation and the New Product Development Process in Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
George Papageorgiou, Andreas Efstathiades and G. Milikouri
488
Social Stock Exchange as a Factor of Increasing the Innovation Potential of Social Enterprises
Ruslan Pavlov
496
Introduction of the Lug Nut Theory for Innovation Adoption and Diffusion
Timothy Pletcher and Jennifer Olsen
503
Agri-Innovation System Formation in the Northern Regions of Russia: Food Security and Rural Development Implications
Sergey Polbitsyn
511
Application of Technology Assessment for the Needs of R&D Management
Beata Poteralska
520
Tensions Between Slow Large-Scale Research Joint Ventures and Fast-Paced Innovation
Lauri Pulkka
530
Shaping the Entrepreneurship Intentions of Students: The Role of Education and Technological Creativity
Patient Rambe, Takawira Munyaradzi Ndofirepi and Dennis Dzansi
537
E Wastrels and Eco-Disasters: Speculative Design, Innovation and Global e-Waste
Peter Rive
548
An Effectiveness Evaluation of a Publicly Funded Support Project for Micro-Enterprises
Martti Saarela, Anu Sirviö, Anna-Mari Simunaniemi and Matti Muhos
556
A Proposal for Operationalizing Strategic Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Strategic Agility
Maja Sajdak
563
Information Sources and Cooperation as Vehicles for Innovation in Portuguese Firms
Paula Santos, Aldina Correia, Alexandra Braga and Vítor Braga
572
Opportunity Recognition, Training and Entrepreneurial Skills as Antecedents of Women’s Entrepreneurial Orientation
Gina Santos, Carla Susana Marques and João Ferreira
586
Innovation Performance Measurement: A Quantitative Systematic Literature Review
Minna Saunila
596
Entrepreneurship as a Harmonized mix From Management, Engineering and Design
Dmitry Shaytan and Georgy Laptev
602
Packaging Dependent Products: How do Firms in the Packaged Food Sector Manage the Development of new Packaging Opportunities?
Chris Simms and Paul Trott
611
Thematic Analysis on Business Management Priorities in Service Business
Anna-Mari Simunaniemi and Matti Muhos
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Author(s)
Captialization of Professional Knowledge in Economies with Different Level of Innovation Development
Viacheslav Sirotin, Marina Arkhipova and Alexey Egorov
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Modelling Entrepreneural University
Aelita Skarzauskiene and Viktorija Šimanau
638
EHIS Method©: Entrepreneurship Human Interaction Skills
Cristina Sousa, Miguel Magalhães, Filomena Castro Lopes, Sandra Fernandes and Cristina Costa-Lobo
644
Entrepreneurial Intent of Prospective Graduates in Sultanate of Oman
Muthuraman Subrahmanian, Kabaly Subramanian, Mohammed Al-Haziazi and P.C Sherimon
653
Thinking about the Roots of Design Thinking
Fangqi Xu and Henry Andersen
662
How Complementors Screen new Product Ideas: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study
Maryam Yarmohammadi, Mehran Rezvani and Mahmood Alborzi
669
Phd Research Papers
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677
Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Venture Capital Funds
Marcin Bielicki
679
Family Businesses, Innovation and Performance During an Economic Crisis: The SOM Methodology
Francesca Maria Cesaroni, Marina Resta and Annalisa Sentuti
686
Intrapreneurial Forms and Well-Being at Work: A Preliminary Study
Valentine Georget and Thierry Rayna
696
Evaluating Design Effectiveness for Public Sector Services: An Introduction to XE
Jo’Anne Langham, Neil Paulsen and Charmine Hartel
706
Entrepreneurial Ingenuity, Capital, Resilience and Innovation: Contextual Perspectives on Mvuma MicroEntrepreneurship, Zimbabwe
Mfazo Cliford Madondo and M. Phiri
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The Journey from Core Idea to Business: Opportunity Development and Exploitation of a Start-Up Venture Creation Process
Irma Mäkäräinen-Suni
726
How Should an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Be? Entrepreneurship Ecosystems as an Artifact of Design
Viviana Molina and Jorge Maya
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Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation Through Teams in a Non-Business Context
Nicolai Nybye
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Commercialization of Academic Research: Assessing the Enabling Conditions for German Universities
Samuel Amponsah Odei
750
Advancing a Typology of Business Model Innovation: A Value-Based Perspective
Arash Rezazadeh and Ana Carvalho
758
Innovation and Diversity: Integrating new Perspectives Into Research Associations
Linda Steuer and Carmen Leicht-Scholten
767
Industry Accelerator Linkage: The Critical Success Factors in Open Innovation Programs
Theodora Trachana, Elli Diakanastasi, Angeliki Karagiannaki and Katerina Pramatari
777
Change in Entrepreneurial Opportunity Templates and new Venture Ideas
Anna Vuorio and Kaisu Puumalainen
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Self-Reflectiveness Among Entrepreneurship Students
Birgitte Wraae and Christa Tigerstedt
Non Academic Papers
Page No 794 803
100 Global Innovative Sustainability Projects: Evaluation and Implications for Entrepreneurship Education
Chris Moon
Work In Progress Papers
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Design Thinking: Pedagogy and the Promise of Utopia
Peter McLuskie
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Cultural Differences in Involving Customers for Creating and Managing Innovations to Success
Raphaël Murswieck, Astrid Fortmüller, Jens Geldmacher and Sara Murswieck
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Understanding the Relationship Between Institutions and Entrepreneurship: A Developing Country Perspective
Aldo Salinas and Moreno Muffatto
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Late Submission
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Risk Component of Innovation Management Strategy
Olga N. Korableva, Nikolay A. Gorelov and Maryia V. Shulha
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Preface These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2017), hosted this year by Novancia Business School in Paris, France on the 21-22 September 2017. The Conference Chair is Professor Christophe Loué and the Programme Chair is Professor Sonia Ben Slimane. ECIE continues to develop and evolve. Now in its 12th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas in the areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and to meet with people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and growing area of research. The conference this year will be opened with a keynote presentation by by Jerry Courvisanos on the topic of “Innovation, Sustainable Development and Regional Resilience: Approach to entrepreneurship policy when under crises”. The second day of the conference will begin with a keynote speech given by Thierry Rayna who will be addressing “How Technological Innovation Changes Entrepreneurship: The Case of 3D Printing Technologies”. In addition to the main themes of the conference there are a number of specialist mini tracks on topics including Micro-entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial Education and Learning and Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With an initial submission of 230 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 81 Academic research papers, 14 PhD research papers, 3 work-in-progress papers and 1 Non-academic paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, México, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA. We hope you enjoy the conference. Christophe Loué and Sonia Ben Slimane ECIE Conference and Programme Chairs Novancia Business School Paris, France September 2017
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ECIE 2017 Committee Executive committee Christophe Loué, Novancia Business School, Paris, France Sonia Ben Slimane, Novancia Business School, Paris, France Jerry Courvisanos Federation University Australia, Victoria, Australia Thierry Rayna, Novancia Business School ,Paris, France Matti Muhos, University of Oulu, Finland Farid Shirazi, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Christy Suciu, Boise State University, Idaho, USA Alexandros Kakouris, University of Athens, Greece Minna Tunkkari-Eskelinen, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland Ruslan Pavlov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Conference Committee Iiris Aaltio, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Assc.Prof.Dr. Zafer Acar, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey; Dr. Bulent Acma, Anadolu University, Turkey; Jaione Aguirre, Tekniker Technological Centre, Spain; Dr. Hanadi Al-Mubaraki, Kuwait University, Kuwait; Dr Hamid Alalwany, Ithmaar Group/ UQ University/ Brunell University, UK; Dr. Laurice Alexandre Leclaire, Sorbonne Paris Cité University, France; Dr. Rumen Andreev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; Dr. Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Dr. Christos Apostolakis, Bournemouth University, UK; Erik Arntsen, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway; Omid Askarzadeh, Polad Saab Shargh, Tehran, Iran; Dr. Claire Auplat, Imperial College Business School, London, UK; Dr Abu H Ayob, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia; Prof. Bagheri, University of Tehran, Iran; Susan Bagwell, London Metropolitan University, UK; Dr. S.R. Balasundaram, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India; Dr. Tabarak Ballal, The University of Reading, UK; Prof. Luca Beltramentti, University of Genova, Italy; Prof. Sonia Ben Slimane, Novancia Business School, France; Prof. Cristin Bigan, Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania; Prof. Dr. Ferrucio Bilich, University of Aveiro, Portugal; Prof. Dr. Dietmar Boenke, Reutlingen University, Germany; Tina Bratkovic, University of Primorska, Slovenia; Dr. Alexander Brem, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Fraser Bruce, University of Dundee, UK; Jeffrey Burke, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, Washington DC, USA; Kevin Burt, University of Lincoln, UK; Prof. Luisa Carvalho, Open University of Lisbon, Portugal; Francesca Maria Cesaroni, University of Urbino, Italy; Dr. Toly Chen, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan; Ph.D. Kuo-Sheng Cheng, National Cheng Kung University/Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Taiwan; Mr Nicholas Corker, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK; Prof. Costas N. Costa, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus; Prof. Teresa Costa, Instituto Polit cino de Set bal | Escola Superior de Ci ncias Empresariais, Portugal; Prof Renata Paola Dameri, University of Genova, Italy; Sven H. de Cleyn, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Prof. Armando Carlos de Pina Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil; Maria Chiara Demartini, University of Pavia, Italy; Carine Desleee, University of Lille 2- IMMD, France; Mr Paolo Di Muro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Prof Laura Diaconu Maxim, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania; Prof Anca Dodescu, University of Oradea, Romania; Prof. Dr. Michael Doellinger, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany; Dr Philip Dover, Babson College, USA; Dr. Nelson Duarte, Porto Politechnic - School of Management and Technology, Portugal; Dr. Smile Dzisi, Koforidua Polytechnic, Ghana; Prof. Vasco Eiriz, University of Minho, Portugal; Dr. Hatem El-Gohary, Birmingham City University, UK; Dr Ramadan Elaiess, University of Benghazi, Libya; Dr. Scott Erickson, Ithaca College, USA; Dr. Mahtab Farshchi, Kingston University, London, UK; Prof. Luis Fé De Pinho, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal; Prof. João Ferreira, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal; Prof. Maria Joao Ferreira, Departamento de inovação, Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal; Prof Maria Ferreiro, ISCTEIUL, Portugal; Dr. Silvia Florea, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania; Dr. Heather Fulford, Aberdeen Business School, UK; Brendan Galbraith, University of Ulster, UK; Prof. Roberto Garelli, University of Genova, Italy; Ass. Prof. Cephas Gbande, Nasarawa State University, Nigeria; Prof. Panagiotis Georgiadis, University of Athens, Greece; Prof. Alan Gillies, Hope Street Centre, Liverpool Science Park, UK; Prof. Oleg Golichenko, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Russia; Dr. Mario Gomez Aguirre, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico; Dr. Elissaveta Gourova, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria; Dr. Ebru Gunlu, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Business, Turkey; Dr. Liang Guo, Rouen Business School, Mont Saint Aignan, France; Prof. Jukka Hallikas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland; Kaled Hameide, Montclair State university in New Jersey, USA; Prof. Antoine Harfouche, University of Tuscia, Italy; Dr. Jennifer Harrison, Southern Cross University, Australia; Prof Nola Hewitt-Dundas, Queen's University Belfast, UK; Dr Dale Heywood, University of Liverpool, UK; Takashi Hirao, Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, Japan; Dr. Rimante Hopeniene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; John Howard, Public Health and Clinical Sciences, UK; Dr Karen Howells, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus; Prof. Paul Jones, Coventry University, UK; PhD Rajul Joshi, University of Technology Sydne, Australia; Dr. Magdalena Jurczyk-Bunkowska, Opole University of Technology, Poland; Dr. Alexandros Kakouris, University of Athens, Greece; Dr. Yusniza Kamarulzaman, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Sabri Kaya, Kirikkale University, Turkey; Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis, CITY College - International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Greece; Dr. Marko Kolakovic, Faculty of Economics & Business, Croatia; Dr. Sam Kongwa, Walter
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Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa; Dr. Renata Korsakiene, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania; Prof. Kothandaraman Kumar, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India; Dr. Stefan Lagrosen, Linnaeus University, Sweden; Dr. Jonathan Lean, University of Plymouth Business School, UK; Kiefer Lee, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; Dr. Jun Li, University of Essex, UK; Dr Andriew Lim, Hotelschool The Hague, Netherlands; Yipeng Liu, University of Mannheim, Germany; Dr. Joan Lockyer, Institute of Applied Entreprenruship, Coventry University, UK; Prof. Ilidio Lopes, Polythenic Institute of Santarém, Portugal; Prof. Sam Lubbe, NWU, South Africa; Phd María Luengo, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Hashemite University, Jordan; Dr. Maria Markatou, Technological Education Institute of Larissa, Greece; Prof. Carla Marques, University of Trás-os-Montes Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal; Dr. Lukasz Marzantowicz, University of Szczecin, Polska; Dr. Florinda Matos, ICAA - Intellectual Capital Association Accreditation, Portugal; Dr Andrei Maxim, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania; Philip McClenaghan, Augsburg University, Germany; Mr. Mohd Shamsuri Md Saad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia; Prof. Luis Mendes, Beira Interior University, Portugal; Prof. Hatem Mhenni, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Tunis, Tunisia; Dr. Christopher J Moon, Middlesex University, UK; Dr. Rabeh Morrar, An-najah National University, Palestine; Isabel Mota, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Dr. Artie Ng, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto, Canada; Dr. Tomasz Norek, University of Szczeciny, Poland; Prof. Alcina Nunes, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal; Dr Melao Nuno, Polythecnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal; Dr. Noreen O'Shea, Novancia Business School, France; Dr. Maria Obeso, University of Cantabria, Spain; Alex Obuh, Delta State University, Nigeria; Prof. Jukka Ojasalo, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Espoo, Finland; Dr nology, Poland; Dr. Shaun Pather, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa; Dr Researcher Kamal Chandra Paul, University Putra Malaysia(UPM), Malaysia; Dr Ruslan Pavlov, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russia; Prof. Dr.. Elisabeth T. Pereira, University of Aveiro, Portugal; Anna Pilkova, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, Bratislava, Slovakia; Prof. Rui Pimenta, ESTSP- Instituto Politécnico Porto, Portugal; Prof. Dr. Ige Pirnar, Yasar University, Turkey; Prof Sergey Polbitsyn, Ural Federal University, Russia; Dr Daniel Politze, Zuehlke Engineering AG, Switzerland; DR. Malgorzata Porada-Rochon, University of Szczecin, Poland; Dr. Jean-Michel Quentier, ESCykolas Romeris University, Lithuania; Prof. Marina Resta, Department of Economics, University of Genova , Italy; Prof. Ricardo Rodrigues, NECE / University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Dr. Jose Carlos Rodriguez, Economic and Business Research Institute, Mexico; Fernando Romero, University of Minho, Portugal; Prof. Paulo Rupino Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Mrs Michele Rusk, Northumbria University, UK; Dr Navjot Sandhu, Birmingham City University, UK; Amitrajit Sarkar, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand; Dr. Ousanee Sawagvudcharee, Liverpool John Moores University, Thailand; Simone Scagnelli, University of Turin, Torino, Italy; Prof. Dr. Cezar Scarlat, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania; Mark Schatten, Universi Romania; Dr. Maria Th. Semmelrock-Picej, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria; Dr Annalisa Sentuti, University of Urbino, Italy; Dr Armin Shams, : University of Tehran and Sharif University, Iran; Eric Shiu, The University of Birmingham, UK; Prof. Sandra Silva, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Carmen Sirbu, Danubius University, Romania; Prof. Aelita Skarzauskiene, Mykolas Romeris university, Lithuania; Dr. Dorotea Slimani, Innventia AB, Sweden; Prof. David Smith, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Dr. Shahryar Sorooshian, University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia; Cristina Sousa, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal; Dr. Marzena Starnawska, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland; Dr. Ludmila Striukova, University College London, UK; Christy Suciu, Boise State University, USA; PHD Jukka Surakka, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Prof Dindayal Swain, Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India; Dr Marzena Szewczuk-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Dr. Mangaleswaran Thampoe, Vauniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka; Prof. Milan Todorovic, University Union Nikola Tesla, Serbia; Dr. Piotr Tomski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland; Ana Trevino, ITESM , Mexico; Dr Blanka Tundys, University of Szczecin, Poland; Minna Tunkkari-Eskelinen, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland; Prof. Dr. Lorraine Uhlaner, EDHEC Business School, France; Dr Anna Ujwary-Gil, Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu - National Louis University, Poland; Prof. Filipa Vieira, University of Minho, Portugal; Armando Luis Vieira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal; Dr. Marcia Villasana, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Bernard Vollmar, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Prof. Krzysztof Wach, Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Dr. Catherine Wang, Royal Holloway University of London , UK; Dr. Ismail Wekke, State College of Sorong, Indonesia; Mr Chizogam Wosu, University of Greenwich, UK; Catherine Wright, Heriot Watt University, UK; Fabiola Wust Zibetti, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; Dr Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University, USA; Dr. Krzysztof Zieba, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland; Dr Afonso Zinga, University of Coimbra, School of Economics, Portugal
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Biographies Conference and Programme Chairs Christophe Loué is a professor and researcher at Novancia, a business school specializing in entrepreneurship and commerce run by the Paris and Île de France Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He took up his post as professor at the school after having spent several years as a junior consultant at the Paris CCI’s Directorate of Human Resources. Professor Loué is responsible for courses in Human Resources Management in Novancia’s Bachelor’s and Master’s programs. His current research focuses on the identification of entrepreneurial skills, the acquisition of competences by the students and the measure of their entrepreneurial intention and self-efficacy in pedagogical situations. Sonia Ben Slimane is PhD in Industrial Economics at the University Paris Dauphine PSL and currently Associate professor of Innovation at Novancia Business School. She is holder of the Labex Chair "Nanotechnologies, Ecodesign, Innovation and Strategy" at Novancia Business School. Sonia Ben Slimane has served for 5 years as researcher at IMRI-Université Paris Dauphine. She has participated in several scientific projects with a systemic approach of innovation for ministry, institutional, and national agencies in France. Her field of expertizes covers mainly innovation and ecodesign, sustainable development, and technological transfer. She is member of “Research network on innovation (RNI)”.
Keynote Speakers Jerry Courvisanos is Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Federation Business School, Federation University Australia. Trained as an economist, Jerry has taught economics in high schools and higher education institutions in Australia and has had a series of long-term Visiting Scholar positions overseas. Jerry’s basic research is centered on the processes of innovation and their impact on investment, business cycles, sustainable development and the evolution of businesses in both developed and developing countries. This work informs applied research into innovation and entrepreneurial activity for regional and sustainable economic development. Jerry has published two major books on investment and innovation, edited one book on pluralism in economics, many book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. Jerry has just completed a visiting scholar position in Timor-Leste to examine sustainable development in this country and to assist in research capacity building of their national university.
Thierry Rayna is Professor of Innovation Management at Novancia Business School Paris. Beforehand, he spent 10 years in the UK, where he held positions at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, University College London and Imperial College. He is a Digital Economy specialist and his research investigates the radical changes that digitisation brings to businesses, industries, and the economy as a whole. Thierry has served as an advisor for companies in the cultural and creative industries, telecom companies, as well as for policymakers. He also mentors start-ups. Thierry Rayna is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management.
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Mini Track Chairs Dr. Matti Muhos is the Research Director of Micro-Entrepreneurship at the University of Oulu. He has a title of docent in technology business at University of Jyväskylä. D.Sc. (Tech.) Muhos has received his doctorate in industrial engineering and management from University of Oulu. He participates in the editorial processes of several international journals as an associate editor, quest editor and advisory board member. His primary research interests are the growth management in new technology and service based firms, the development of SMEs and micro-sized enterprises, technology business, technology management, agility, and internationalisation processes.
Christy Suciu gained her MBA from Webster University in Missouri, USA. She teaches design thinking in the MBA programs at the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University in Idaho, USA. She has served as a design thinking consultant for major global companies. Her research interests include design thinking, innovation, and strategy. She has published articles on design thinking in the journal of the Academy of Management Learning and Education and The International Journal of Management and Education. Dr Alexandros Kakouris, is an external lecturer in entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Athens, University of Peloponnese and ASPETE. He holds a PhD in Physics and a MSc in Adult Education. He has been involved in entrepreneurship since 2006, researching educational issues. His special interest concerns fostering entrepreneurship and innovation to science graduates and the support of youth entrepreneurship through counselling. He also specialises in nascent entrepreneurship and experiential learning. Dr Minna Tunkkari-Eskelinen, , is Principal Lecturer at JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland. Her areas of study are pedagogy, tourism industry and entrepreneurship as well as family business, and she is competent with service design, strategic thinking as well as development methods. She applies entrepreneurial methods and ideology when teaching and coaching students, teachers and micro entrepreneurs. Ruslan Pavlov is a senior researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and post graduated from the same institution. His research interests include the diversification of business and big cycles, as well as the social responsibility of business and social entrepreneurship.
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Biographies of Contributing Authors Deborah O. Ajumobi is presently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She also holds a Master of Commerce degree in Information Systems from UCT; and a BSc. (Honours) degree in Computer Science from Redeemer’s University, Nigeria. Her research interests focus on women entrepreneurship, emergent users and ICTs. Sari Alatalo is a Senior Lecturer of English Business Communication at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences. She is also a doctoral candidate in International Business at the University of Oulu. She has recently published in the Israeli Journal of Humor Research. Her research interests include communication in various contexts and use of humor in communication. Rafif Al-Sayed is a researcher in knowledge and technological innovation management. Her current research is on Science and Technology Policy in general and in China in particular. Fabio Antonialli graduated in Administration from Federal University of São João Del Rei – Brazil. Master in Administration from Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) – Brazil. PhD student in Administration also by UFLA. Researcher at UFLA’s Terrestrial Mobility Laboratory, focusing on Autonomous Vehicles’ businesses models and platforms. Exchange PhD student on the Laboratorie Genie Industriel at CentraleSupélec (Paris, France). Dr Marina Arkhipova is a professor, department of Statistics and Data Analysis, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. She gained her Doctor of Sciences in 2007. Marina has previously worked as a Researcher at RIEPP and Russian Academy of Science, 2000 before joining the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Jbid Arsenyan is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul. She is interested in innovation management and product development. More specifically, her work examines decision making problems under fuzzy environment in the innovation process within the context of start-up ecosystems, open innovation, and crowdsourcing. Dr Hooshang Asheghi Oskooee is an Assistant Prof. in Management Dept. of University of Qom, Iran. Hooshang received a Ph.D. in Business Administration with major in Business Policy Making (Strategic Management) from ATU in 2011. Rifelly Astuti is a doctoral student at Universitas Indonesia (UI) majoring at Marketing. Her publications include “Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention by using Theory of Planned Behavior” (2012), “The Role of Green CSR Activities, Business Ethics, and Perceived Quality of Life in Enhancing Customers’ Trust and Loyalty” (2014). Her research interests include marketing for SMEs and consumer behavior. Manuel Au-Yong Oliveira is the Director of the Master’s in Management and a member of the Executive Committee of DEGEIT, at the University of Aveiro. With over 100 publications, including international journal and conference articles, as well as international and national-level book chapters, Manuel has a passion for teaching and education. Manuel’s research interests are in strategy, marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship. Anna Bagirova is a professor of economics and sociology at Ural Federal University (Russia). She explores issues of human capital, labour economics and sociology of labour. Her research interests include also demographical processes and their determinants. She is a doctoral supervisor and a member of International Sociological Association. Martin Mabunda Baluku has a Bachelor’s degree in Community Psychology and Master of Organizational Psychology from Makerere University, Uganda. He is presently a PhD student at Marburg University; and Assistant Lecturer at Makerere University. Research interests include psychology of entrepreneurship, career management, organizational change and workplace deviance. He also has work experience in child rights programming and advocacy. Marcin Bielicki is a doctoral candidate at the Poznan University of Economics. He graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at this University with Master degree in 2014. His fields of interest are R&D, public aid and innovations support systems. He also practices as a public aid consultant. Dr. Samira Bourgeois earned her PhD in ergonomics and human factor engineering. Her initial research focused on humanmachine interactions, ergonomic analyses of behaviour and best practices in the aviation agency in terms of pilots and air traffic controllers. Samira Bourgeois went on to focus her research on analyses of best practices in the creative process of engineers and writers, based on in-depth analyses of responses to interviews and activity traces. Her current work focuses on ways to enhance creativity in educational settings, through pedagogies that seek to improve specific aspects of the creative process. Alexandra Maria Braga has a PhD in Management. She is an assistant Professor at School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Porto (ESTG.IPP), and Researcher in CETRAD CIICESI. Her research on innovation and knowledge management has been presented at numerous international conferences and she has published in various international journals. Rocio Carrillo Labella is a professor of Marketing at the University of Jaén. Author of 1 Chapter of the book, 3 papers presented to congresses, Researcher in 1 project Priority researchs lines: Agro-food sustainability, Agri-food marketing, Agri-food cooperatives.
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Bruna Cavazza Graduated in Administration from Federal University of Lavras – Brazil. Master in Administration from Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) – Brazil. PhD student in Administration also by UFLA. Researcher at UFLA’s Terrestrial Mobility Laboratory, focusing on Autonomous Vehicles’ businesses models and platforms. Exchange PhD student on the Laboratorie Genie Industriel at CentraleSupélec (Paris, France). Dr Greg Clydesdale is a senior lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand. His books include Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West, Entrepreneurial Opportunity: The right place at the right time and Human Nature: a guide to managing workplace relations. His next book The Art of Business; a history of Chinese business, is due out in September. Jerry Courvisanos is Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Federation Business School, Federation University Australia. Trained as an economist, Jerry has taught economics in high schools and higher education institutions in Australia and has had a series of long-term Visiting Scholar positions overseas. Jerry’s basic research is centered on the processes of innovation and their impact on investment, business cycles, sustainable development and the evolution of businesses in both developed and developing countries. This work informs applied research into innovation and entrepreneurial activity for regional and sustainable economic development. Dr Gareth Davies is a Senior Lecturer jointly in Swansea University’s Schools of Management and Medicine. His work involves research and teaching in the fields of Innovation Management and Regional Economic Development, with practitioner roles in a range of major initiatives. Dr Smile Dzisi (PhD, Swinburne University Of Technology, Australia) is an Associate Professor in the School of Business and Management Studies at Koforidua Technical Univeristy. She is also the Vice Chancellor for Koforidua Technical Univeristy. Her research and teaching interests are in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organizational Management. Alexey Egorov is an analyst at Laboratory for University Development, National Research University Higher School of Economics Leena Eskola is a researcher at the Kerttu Saalasti Institute of the University of Oulu. She has a Master of Business Administration, Degree programme in Entrepreneurship and Business competence. Her primary research interests are collaboration with local entrepreneurs and strategy implementation. Astrid Fortmüller is a PhD student at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. After more than 15 years within international tourism management her research is focusing on Business Excellence with regional management and entrepreneurial competences. Since 2008 she is a lecturer at the University of Teacher Education Styria. Michael Fowle is programme director of Newcastle Business School’s applied entrepreneurship programmes and creator of the first 100% applied Entrepreneurship MSc. He works on the promotion of entrepreneurship. He is a serial entrepreneur and, with his own companies, he won the DTI Startup of the Year 2004 and the MIT International Business Plan Competition 2010. Mário Franco is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and SME Administration at the Department of Management and Economics, Beira Interior University, Portugal. He received his PhD in Management from Beira Interior University in 2002. In 1997, he was a doctoral candidate and participated in the European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in Spain and Sweden. He is also a member of a Research Center (CEFAGE-UBI) and currently involved in several research projects on SMEs. Valentine Georget, a first year PhD Student in innovation management in University of Strasbourg (France) and BETA laboratory. Her areas of research interests include Open innovation, Intrapreneurship, Corporate entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Dynamic capacities. Oleg Golichenko has a degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences. He is a chief research associate at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the RAS. He is also a professor at the Moscow Physics and Technique Institute. His research interests are related to investigation of innovation development processes and design of public policy. Emma Green FCCA DChA MSc, has been working in in the Social Enterprise and charity sectors for over 25 years specialising in Finance and Governance. She has extensive experience of working with startups, SME’s and National Organisations. Currently she teaches at Sheffield Hallam University and is undertaking a PhD on Crowdfunding. Heiko Haase is a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at the Department of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany. He studied Industrial Engineering and received his PhD in Economic Sciences from the Ilmenau University of Technology. He is the director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Applied Sciences Jena. Kai Hänninen is a post-doctoral research fellow in the micro-entrepreneurship research group (MicroENTRE) at the University of Oulu, Finland. He holds a doctorate in industrial engineering and management. His primary research interest is twofold, focusing on company growth and business management, with a particular focus on service- and technologybased companies.
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Johanna Haunschild is a research assistant in the Division Corporate Management at Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin since 2015. She holds a master degree in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis on energy and environmental resources. At IPK she is involved in applied research projects with focus on KM, process analysis and IT-supported process optimizations. Alexandra Ioanid is a lecturer at the University Politehnica of Bucharest with background on Information Technology and Business Administration. Her current research interests cover: social media, online marketing and open-innovation models. She is author of more than 40 papers on social networks, business strategies and entrepreneurship. Alexis Jacoby is a professor at the Master's programme in Product Development of the Antwerp University. He holds a PhD in Product Development and teaches innovation and product development methodology. He worked as a design consultant in industry. His research focuses on methods and tools in the Front-end of Innovation. Dr Jana Jagodick was a Senior Lecturer in a Department of Management at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (previously known as Polytechnic of Namibia). Later, she became a Research Representative of the Faculty of Management Sciences and a Research Cluster Leader for Innovation and Project Management before embarking on social entrepreneurship in Namibia. Dr Carol Jarvis is Associate Professor in Knowledge Exchange at Bristol Business School, where she plays an active role in the design and delivery of leadership development and executive education programmes. Working from a complexity perspective, her current research interests include leadership of innovation in the UK health sector; learning entrepreneurship; and coaching for transition. Harri Jokela is a researcher and PhD student at the Kerttu Saalasti Institute of the University of Oulu. He has a Master of Science in Agriculture and Forestry. His primary research interests are micro-sized companies, knowledge dynamics of the innovation processes of micro-sized companies and regional development. (PhD in Management) is an Associate Professor at KTU School of Economics and Business, and the director of Business Study programmes at Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania). Her research fields covers entrepreneurship, technology venturing as well as development of organizational systems and interorganizational trust. (PhD in Management) is Full Professor and Head of Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Management at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania). His research fields cover comparative international management, entrepreneurship, strategic innovation, innovation ecosystems and inter-organizational relations. Alexandros Kakouris, PhD, is an adjunct lecturer in entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Peloponnese and National Observatory in Athens. He holds a PhD in Physics and a MSc in Adult Education. He has been involved in entrepreneurship since 2006, researching educational issues. His special interest concerns fostering entrepreneurship and innovation to science graduates and the support of youth entrepreneurship through counselling. He also specialises in nascent entrepreneurship and experiential learning. Kanagatova Almagul is a Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. She has more than 80 publications on the issues of intellectual capital development education, issues of social changes in Kazakhstan. Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Russian Federation. A member of the editorial board of the international journal «International Journal of Business, Behavioral and Social Sciences». Member of the Association of Business Women of Kazakhstan. The winner of the nomination – "The best teacher of Kazakhstan 2013". Sergey Kulpin is Senior Lecturer and Head of Educational Department in Institute of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship, Ural Federal University. He finished his PhD degree in marketing of the Internet companies in 2016 at the same university. His research interests include digital marketing and institutional development of virtual markets. Lawan Amdan Lawan has a degree in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Marketing from the University of Maiduguri. He joined the services of Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri as an assistant lecturer in the department of marketing in 2006, where he rose to a senior lecturer. Lawan is currently a PhD scholar at Apeejay Stya University India. Lucia Liu is currently studying her PhD in Project management at the University of Sydney. She holds Master of Science from Shanghai TongJi University and Master of Engineering from the University of Auckland. She is a senior advisor with international experience in, consulting, advisory, engineering and construction for large complex infrastructure projects. Matthew Lynch has been fascinated by entrepreneurship for the past 15 years. He has transitioned from studying it, to doing it, to now teaching and researching entrepreneurship. His article for this conference is how language can be used to examine the concept of the entrepreneurial mindset. Mr Mfazo Cliford Madondo, MTh in Theology and Development, Mcom in Leadership Studies and PhD in Entrepreneurship (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). I am an Entrepreneurship Skills Development Practitioner and ad hoc lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. My research interests include: Business innovation and entrepreneurship, organisational development, SMMEs and Business management in southern Africa. Irma Mäkäräinen-Suni, M.Sc. (Econ.), is a part time Ph.D. researcher in Westminster Business School, London. She works as a Senior Lecturer in the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, and acts a coach for student start-ups. Her research interest covers start-up entrepreneurs and digital entrepreneurship.
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Mmakgabo Justice Malebana is a senior lecturer and researcher at Tshwane University of Technology specialising in entrepreneurship. He has lectured various universities in South Africa. He is responsible for courses in Management and supervision of postgraduate students’ research. His research interest is in the field of entrepreneurship with special focus on entrepreneurial intention, social capital, small business support, small business growth, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial leadership and strategic management issues in small businesses. Kamila Malewska is an assistant professor in the Theory of Organization and Management Department at the Poznan University of Economics (Poland). She defended her PhD dissertation in 2008 (her thesis was related to the resource-based view of strategic management). Currently the subject of her research is the role of intuition in the management, especially in decision-making process. Renetchie Bedecer-Martinez is the Senior Education Program Specialist in Planning and Research of the Department of Education-Sarangani Division, Philippines. She is also a student of Doctor of Philosophy major in Educational Management of Mindanao State University , General Santos City. Ms. Martinez is passionate about learning; she is success-oriented and a good team player. Carla S. E. Marques is Assistant Professor (w/Aggregation) at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal. Currently, she coordinates the ‘Innovation, Markets and Organization’ research group at UTAD’s Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD). Her research on innovation and entrepreneurship has been presented at numerous international conferences and journals. Her research interests include innovation, management of change and entrepreneurship. Hannes Maxin (M.Sc.) works at the University of Hannover’s Institute of Microeconomics as a research and teaching assistant. His scientific interests are in the fields of venture capital, innovations, FinTechs and especially corporate venture capital. Before working at the university, he works for the Commerzbank in Frankfurt am Main and Hannover. Adam Mazurkiewicz, Prof., CEO – Institute for Sustainable Technologies - National Research Institute, Radom, Poland. Manager and expert in research projects – systems engineering, machine construction and maintenance, materials engineering, technology transfer, foresight. Expert in FP6, COST, Polish interdisciplinary research groups. Head of a few strategic national and international programmes. Author of 300 publications including 22 monographs. Ana Melro has a Ph.D. in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms, from University of Aveiro and University of Porto (2013). A master degree in Sociology and a degree in Sociology (2004), from University of Minho. She is currently a post-doctoral fellowship at DigiMedia (Cic.Digital), University of Aveiro. Viviana Molina Osorio, is a professor in the Business and Economics department of Universidad Autónoma de Manizales – Colombia. She is a Ph.D. candidate in design and creation from Universidad de Caldas. She holds an MBA in Finance from Universidad EAFIT, and undergraduate degree in Economics from Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Her research interest revolves around design, entrepreneurship and complex artifacts. Dr Christopher Moon FRSA FHEA is a multi-award winning social and eco-entrepreneur with a PhD from Imperial College London. He is the founder of several eco-businesses including eco-design-and-build, eco-taxis and buy-eco. Chris is also inspiring business students at Middlesex University London to be more environmentally friendly. He is widely published including a book for the Economist; and is the inventor developer of the award winning patented eco-bin. Chris was a finalist in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards 2015. He is a psychologist by background; certified and accredited CSR consultant and Social Auditor. Eva María Murgado Armenteros is a professor of marketing at the University of Jaén. Author of 6 books, 11 chapters of books, 15 articles in journals and 32 papers presented to congresses. Researcher in 16 projects and 32 R&D+I research contracts. Research Awards: UNICAJA Prize for Research on Economic Development and Agrarian Studies, in 2000. Arco Iris Prize for Cooperativism, in 2005. Priority researchs lines: Agri-food marketing, Agri-food cooperatives. Agro-food sustainability. Dr. Subrahmanian Muthuraman, Ph.D is having 18years of professional experience & presently working as Assistant Professor in Arab Open University, Sultanate of Oman. He has produced 2 Ph.D scholars and published 52 research articles, 3 thesis and 5 Edited Books. Presently he is authoring a book on Training & Development. His core competencies are T&D, ED. Syed Razi Nabavi is a PhD student in Human Resource Management in University of Semnan. He has 20 years of work in public and private company. He has published more than 10 research papers in various international journals. Nabavi has presented 8 papers in various international conferences in different countries. He also has more than 10 years experiences of research in area of small and medium enterprises. Nicolai Nybye holds a Master of Arts (2002) and from 2014 has been employed by University College Lillebaelt to support educational innovation. In 2016 Nicolai started work on a PhD project, designed as a part time (75%) 4 year project. Prior to that: work experience from the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship, from teaching and private firm experience. Samuel Amponsah Odei is currently studying his doctorate degree in Economic policy and administration at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He was born in Accra, Ghana. 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Studies from the University for Development Studies in Ghana and masters in International Development Studies from the Palacky University in Czech Republic. Franklin Dodzi Odoom (MA, Economic Policy Management, University of Ghana) is the Business Development Manager of Koforidua Technical Univeristy. Franklin is also at the rank of a Snr. Assistant Registrar and his research and teaching interests are in Economics and Entrepreneurship. Prof. Dr. George Papageorgiou is full Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, Director of the SYSTEMA Research Centre and Deputy Dean of the School of Business Administration at the European University Cyprus. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the City University of London, a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Kent and a (First Class) Honours Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the City University of London. His Research interests are on Open Innovation and Systems Thinking. Ruslan Pavlov is a senior researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, and post graduated from the same institution. His research interests include the diversification of business within a context of the long waves theory; institutions of social entrepreneurship as factors of social innovations. Elisabeth T. Pereira holds a PhD and Master in the fields of Economics and Business Management. She is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Aveiro, and researcher in the field of Competitiveness and Innovation at the Research Unit GOVCOPP. She is author of several dozen articles, books and chapter books and communications at conferences. Dr. Timothy Pletcher is an Adjunct Research Investigator at the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School and Executive Director for the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Shared Services. Previously he was the chief technology officer at a start-up engaged in electronic commerce and customized supply chain automation. Sergey Polbitsyn is Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Ural Federal University. He is also a senior researcher at the Institute of Economy of the Ural Chapter of Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include rural entrepreneurship, innovation policies and systems, food supply systems, social and economic development of rural communities. Beata Poteralska, senior researcher, PhD in economics, head of the Innovation Strategies Centre in the Institute for Sustainable Technologies-National Research Institute in Radom, Poland. Involved in execution of 15 international projects (Horizon 2020, FP7, FP5, COST, ERASMUS+) and 35 national projects. Author and co-author of over 80 publications including 4 monographs. Lauri Pulkka is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of the Built Environment at Aalto University, Finland. His research interests include innovation and sustainability in the built environment, inter-organisational collaboration, and urban development. In addition to research, Lauri teaches a course on real estate business and entrepreneurship. Arash Rezazadeh is a PhD candidate in Business Administration at University of Minho. His main research interests include business model, business model canvas, and business model innovation, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Within these research areas, he has published in the International Journal of Business and Globalisation. Dr. Pete Rive has worked in the Film and Television industry for thirty years. He teaches at AUT in Art + Design and Colab, in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and virtual worlds for the Bachelor and Masters of Creative Technologies. Martti Saarela is a Researcher and PhD candidate at Kerttu Saalasti Institute of University of Oulu. He has a Master of Laws and Master of Science in Economics. His primary research interests are the development of micro-companies, public business services, external entrepreneur support, public procurement, and regional development. Maja Sajdak holds a, PhD in Economics, she is a assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Management at the Aldo Salinas is a PhD student in Management Engineering at the University of Padova. Aldo is originally from Ecuador and his research interests are in the field of institutions and entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. Gina M. C. Santos is a PhD student, and has a Master's degree in Management (UTAD). In her Master’s in Management she characterized and related the profile, the duplication of women’s roles, motivations and environment (rural vs. urban) of the Portuguese entrepreneurial woman. She has published some articles in international journals and international conferences. Currently her research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation and university social responsibility. Minna Saunila (DSc Tech.) is a Senior Researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology, School of Business and Management. Her research covers topics related to innovation, service operations, and sustainable value creation. She has previously published among others in Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, and Journal of Organizational Effectiveness.
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Annalisa Sentuti, PhD, is Research Fellow in Business Administration (Department of Economics, Society and Politics) and Contract Professor of Business Administration (School of Foreign Languages and Literatures) at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. Her main research interests include family businesses, women entrepreneurs and small business. Ana Maria Serrano Bedia is Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Cantabria. Her primary research interests are in the fields of innovation management, manufacturing flexibility, entrepreneurship and family firms. Dmitry K. Shaytan is co-founder of innovationStudio, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics, where he manages acceleration programs, and teaches entrepreneurial management courses. He is entrepreneur, founder and general manager of the innovation company “ETB” that designs software and hardware based innovative solutions. Educational background: MS in physics, and MBA. Chris Simms is a senior lecturer in the Strategy, Enterprise and Innovation subject group at Portsmouth Business School. His area of expertise is in new product development and innovation management. In particular, his specialty is in product development within the food industry and the management of packaging. Dr. Anna-Mari Simunaniemi (Ph.D. in Food, nutrition and dietetics) works as post-doctoral researcher in Microentrepreneurship research team MicroENTRE at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her main research interests are microentrepreneurship, business growth, growth management and entrepreneurs’ wellbeing. Simunaniemi is also doctoral student at Oulu Business School. is an leader of the research program for “Social technologies” at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), Vilnius, Lithuania. Her main research focus is on the emergence of collective intelligence in networked structures (online communities, clusters, virtual initiatives and platforms). She has developed her competencies during the internships at leading world universities: MIT and Washington University, USA, Ajou and EWHA universities in South Korea, USM University in Malaysia, Kasetsart University in Thailand, universities of Kingston, Milano etc. Cristina Sousa is Assistant Professor at Universidade Portucalense (UPT) and director and researcher at REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies. She is also Researcher at Dinâmia’CET-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa). She has a Master’s degree in Economics and Management of Science and Technology and a PhD in Economics, both from ISEG/UTL (Lisbon, Portugal). Her research interests include the following topics: innovation processes and their socio-economic effects; knowledge and innovation networks; entrepreneurship; and the transition to sustainable systems. Linda Steuer is research associate at the research group “Gender and Diversity in Engineering” (GDI), RWTH Aachen University. The chair investigates, places and publishes new themes in gender and diversity research. As “bridging professorship“, the chair is designed to strengthen the interdisciplinary research between technological, engineering, natural, human, social and economical sciences. In the course of numerous projects in the field of interdisciplinary and diverse teaching, such as a transatlantic course with the Stanford University, Linda Steuer has gained scientific experiences. Roslyn Dongzal Tambago is a science research specialist of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), stationed in Dumaguete City, Philippines. She is passionate in advocating science, technology, and innovation consciousness and application as key to achieving inclusive growth in her country. Tambago is also an adjunct faculty member of Silliman University in the Philippines. Torben Tambo is MSc in Information Systems from Technical University of Denmark, 1989, and is now engaged as associate professor at Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University and programme coordinator for MSc in Technology-based Business Development and BSc in Global Management and Manufacturing. Research interests include enterprise architecture, information systems, retailing and supply chain management. Torben has previously published with Journal of Enterprise Architecture, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, International Public Policy Review, and Journal of Retailing & Consumer Services and several book chapters. Theodora Trachana is a PhD Candidate on Open Innovation in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business. She holds a BSc on Management Science and Technology and a MSc in Information Systems. Theodora has received many titular scholarships for her academic excellence and she has participated in many conferences. Ilaria Tutore is an Assistant Professor at “Parthenope” University of Business Management and Green Management. She earned her PhD in Management from “Parthenope” University and collaborated with several Italian and international research centres. Her research interests cover the field of environmental management, green innovation, diffusion of innovation and cross-cultural management. Cecile Vassaux is an economist with an interest in internationalism and experiential learning. She is working on a HEFCEfunded project at Newcastle Business School to incorporate a business accelerator into an academic programme. She helped to develop and deliver the accelerator-based Entrepreneurship MSc.
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Jitendra Verma is trainer of corporate employees and business leaders. He is associated with Global Ventures Connect as a director of Learning & Development department. He is a certified trainer for entrepreneurial leadership training from International School of Entrepreneurial Leadership (ISOEL) and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). He carries vast experience of industry and academia both. Anna Vuorio (nee Kunttu) is a third year doctoral student from Lappeenranta University of Technology, School of Business and Management. Her research interests include sustainable entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial cognition and entrepreneurial opportunities. Wafa Mezrioui is a PhD student in Paris 13 University in France. Her studies focuses on the strategic issues of entrepreneurial finance, particularly, the venture capital firm. The author is member of CEPN laboratory “Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord”. Birgitte Wraae (M.Sc. Econ) is a PhD student in Entrepreneurship Education at TU Berlin, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and Associate Professor (entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, HR) at University College Lillebælt. Her current research interests are in fields such as entrepreneurship education; the student-educator relationship, didactics, and digitalization of education. Fangqi Xu is professor of management and Chinese business at the Faculty of Business Administration of Kindai Management in Japan. He is founding director of the Institute for Creative Management and Innovation at the university. Also, he is the editor of Kindai Management Review, the Journal of Japanese Management and Chairman of Japan Creativity Society. Maryam Yarmohammadi is a PhD candidate in Information Technology Management, with particular interests in studying emerging businesses, at the Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University. She has a 10-year work experience as a researcher, software analyst, and project manager in different public and private organizations. Alexander Yashin is Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the Institute of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship of Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Also, Alexander is the Associate Professor in the Department of Regional and Municipal Economy, Finances and Security. His primary research interests include social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education development in modern universities.
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