REMINDER: Realigning the Innovation-Entrepreneurship Interface (IJEIM)

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Call for Papers - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Management  (IJEIM)
Special Issue on: "Realigning the Innovation-Entrepreneurship Interface"
Guest Editor: Dr. Nnamdi O. Madichie, University of East London, UK
Deadline: 22 July 2008

True entrepreneurship is the essence of economic development, but it
cannot exist without innovation. Innovation plays an important role in
creating an environment for sustainable entrepreneurship. Both concepts
foster interactions between academia and industry for sharing of ideas
and experiences and for developing new technology in order to ensure
skills and value transfer to the end-users.

While this blend between entrepreneurship and innovation is achievable
at both the corporate enterprise and the small-to-medium enterprise
(SME) levels, there are some indications that the cocktail has become
poisonous and too dangerous for consumption. This is largely based on
the recent practices of enterprises' stifling innovation at the altar of
entrepreneurship and vice versa. The question now is whether the
definition of entrepreneurship can be complete without reference to
innovation and vice versa.

The aim of this special issue is to provide a common platform for
researchers, scholars and practitioners to address those issues relating
to perceived gaps between innovation and entrepreneurship. Manuscripts
based on entrepreneurship, innovation and/or a mixture of both concepts
are particularly suitable for this issue, so are the comparative studies
conducted in developing and/or emerging countries.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

* The innovation handicap of emerging countries' entrepreneurship
* SME entrepreneurship and innovation
* Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation
* Bridging the gaps between innovation and entrepreneurship
* Entrepreneurship without innovation
* Entrepreneurship in non-innovative enterprises
* Other related topics

Important Dates

Extended abstracts of no more than 5 single-spaced pages due: 22 July
2008
Full paper due: 18 August 2008
Acceptance notification for final paper by: 11 September 2008
Final paper due: 10 November 2008

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Dr. Nnamdi O. Madichie
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader - BA (Hons) Business Studies
Business School
University of East London
London E16 2RD
UK
Tel: +44(0) 20 8223 2205
Fax: +44(0) 20 8223 2899
Email: n.o.madichie at uel.ac.uk

with a copy to:

IEL Editorial Office
E-mail: ijeim at inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor.

More info at
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=925