Call for Papers: 13th Uddevalla Symposium 2010 Special Session on Innovation and Multidimensional Entrepreneurship

13th Uddevalla Symposium 2010 Special Session on:
Innovation and Multidimensional Entrepreneurship – Economic, Social and Academic Aspects
Jönköping, Sweden, August 19-23, 2010

Call for papers
We are pleased to invite you to contribute papers on a Special ERSA Uddevalla Symposium session which is to be arranged on the 50th ERSA Congress in August (19-23). The 50th Anniversary ERSA Conference will be a major international event. This special session will have an interdisciplinary character and provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss their ongoing research that is relevant to clarifying the role of innovation and multidimensional entrepreneurship in the growth and development of regional economies and regional economic systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following topics as they relate to the regional context including papers of a theoretical or conceptual, methodological and/or substantive nature and of policy relevance.

Entrepreneurship and innovation
Social entrepreneurship
Government or public sector entrepreneurship
Regional innovation systems
Entrepreneurship and cluster analytical applications
Ethnic entrepreneurship
Minority entrepreneurship
Business formation and development
Entrepreneurship and innovation enhancement policies
Entrepreneurship, innovation and productivity
Entrepreneurship and innovation in development strategy
The entrepreneurial economy and regional policy
Case studies in development with a focus on the role of entrepreneurship
New measurement and analytical methods for the study of entrepreneurship
The theory of entrepreneurship and sustained regional economies
Entrepreneurship, innovation and environment sustainability
The innovation economy and sustainable growth
Modeling entrepreneurship in multi-actor regional economies

Session organizers:
Professor Kingsley E. Haynes, Dean, School of Public Policy, Ruth D. and John T. Hazel, MD Chair in Public Policy/Eminent Scholar Professor, George Mason University, USA
Professor Roger R. Stough, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Northern Virginia Endowed Chair/Eminent Scholar and Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

The deadline for submission of abstracts: December 30, 2009. Please send it to Haifeng Qian at uddevalla2010@gmail.com
Final paper Deadline is June 1st, 2010.
We look forward to your submission.

Uddevalla Symposium is an international scientific symposium established in 1998 in Uddevalla, Sweden. The primary objective is to foster research collaboration and bring together leading-edge views between experts, researchers and insightful practitioners from various fields of regional science, international business, economics, entrepreneurship and small business economics as well as from regional economics, regional planning, economic geography/economic history/political science and sociology in order to increase our knowledge as regards research questions related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions”.

For further information on the Uddevalla Symposium, use the link:
www.symposium.hv.se

ERSA is the supranational grouping of national regional science associations across Europe. Members of the Regional Science Association International are academics, policy professionals and researchers interested in spatial economics and planning, regional and local development and related issues including the disciplines of economics, geography and planning.

For further information on ERSA, use the link:
www.ersa.org/ersa-congress/