CFP: Energy Entrepreneurship Research Handbook

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From: rolf.wuestenhagen at unisg.ch [mailto:rolf.wuestenhagen at unisg.ch] 
Date: Wed 4 Feb 2009 21:02

Call for contributions

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON ENERGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
edited by Rolf Wüstenhagen and Robert Wuebker
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

ABSTRACT DEADLINE FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Motivation

The urgency of global resource and climate challenges have highlighted the
need for entrepreneurial solutions to the sustainable provision of energy.
While being of key significance for business, investors and society, energy
entrepreneurship is also an emerging discipline in academia. To take stock
of existing academic knowledge in this field, and to highlight some of the
vast opportunities for future research, we are editing a handbook of
research on energy entrepreneurship, to be published by Edward Elgar
Publishing in 2010. We expect that this emerging domain is set to show
increasing prominence among scholars in entrepreneurship research, catching
up quickly with traditional focus areas such as information technology and
biotechnology. At the same time, scholars in energy and sustainability
management, as well as in the domain of organizations and the natural
environment, are increasingly discovering research opportunities related to
energy entrepreneurship.

The book will open with a thorough survey of energy entrepreneurship as a
research field; conceptual, theoretical and geographic aspects are
explored, and its pioneers revisited. The focus then shifts to specific
aspects of energy entrepreneurship. Two sections investigate the respective
roles of energy entrepreneurship in start-ups and large incumbent firms. A
fourth section looks at commercialization of energy innovation, including
entrepreneurial marketing. Section five turns to aspects of financing
entrepreneurial firms and energy innovation. The final section investigates
the interface between public policy and energy entrepreneurship.

Across the different sections, we expect the book to provide a variety of
insights on theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches that may
be fruitfully applied to the emerging research field on energy
entrepreneurship. The objective is to produce an all-encompassing handbook,
which will prove an invaluable reference tool for those with an interest in
policy, business management, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the
financing of new and growth-oriented energy firms.

Subject areas to be covered

   Part I: Energy Entrepreneurship as a Research Field

   Part II: The role of Start-Up Firms in Energy Entrepreneurship

   Part III: Energy Entrepreneurship in Large Incumbent Firms

   Part IV: Commercializing Energy Innovation

   Part V: Financing Energy Entrepreneurship

   Part VI: Energy Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

We are inviting proposals for chapters. A full chapter will have about
6'000-8'000 words. In order to maximize the quality of the book, all papers
will be peer reviewed in May/June 2009. Additional feedback will be
available at a paper development workshop.

In terms of timing, publication of the book is planned for Spring 2010. The
next steps are as follows:

19 February 2009  Deadline for submission of abstracts
1 March 2009      Notification of acceptance of abstracts, editorial
feedback
15 May 2009       Draft chapters due to the editors
May/June 2009     Peer review
June/July 2009    Contributing authors' meeting in Switzerland
31 August 2009    Revised chapters due to the editors
December 2009     Proof-reading
Spring 2010       Book published

Abstract Submission

Interested authors should submit their abstract by email no later than
February 19, 2009 to <energie at unisg.ch> Abstracts are limited to two pages
covering (1) a brief overview, (2) method, (3) results, (4) conclusions and
(5) references.

In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the editors.

Prof. Dr. Rolf Wüstenhagen
University of St. Gallen
Vice Director
Institute for Economy and the Environment (IWÖ-HSG)
Tigerbergstrasse 2
CH-9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland
Tel. +41-71-224 25 87
Fax +41-71-224 27 22
http://www.iwoe.unisg.ch/wuestenhagen
mailto:rolf.wuestenhagen at unisg.ch

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Appendix:

Links to previous books in the Edward Elgar Entrepreneurship Research
Handbook series

Handbook Of Research On Venture Capital
http://www.e-elgar-business.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=3792

Handbook Of Qualitative Research Methods In Entrepreneurship
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=3448

Handbook Of Research On International Entrepreneurship
http://www.e-elgar-business.com/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=2799