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Entrepreneurship as a Social Movement:
Art, Technology, Design and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Transformation
18th International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) Conference
Goa, India, 16-18 December, 2019
First Notice
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Entrepreneurship as a Social Movement: Art, Technology and Sustainable
Entrepreneurial Transformation
Goa, 16-18 December, 2019
Introduction
If entrepreneurship is to have significant impact on economic and social development then it has to mean much more than the process of creating new businesses! Unpacking this imperative could help us grasp the sense of a permanent revolution of imagination, of the mutuality of the arts, the humanities, technology and science that underpins the creation of something new. In our constant critical endeavor to make sense of the economics and sociology of change that entrepreneurship promises, we may have overlooked the dynamics of art in technology and the technology that cultivates both new art forms and the sustainability of our evolving social or economic institutions. Perhaps it is time for different reckoning!
The 18th International Entrepreneurship Forum conference will enable a reckoning of alternative visions and received wisdom about entrepreneurship in society. Our conference theme, stated above, will cultivate discourse and action-oriented thinking about how our ways of observing entrepreneurial activity can invoke John Berger’s idea of seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. It will aim to showcase entrepreneurial endeavor as an engagement with neighbourhoods and citizens to upturn notions of crime through the lenses of epidemiology as they have accomplished in Glasgow. It will celebrate the rigour of mindset change and praxis that informs the well-researched legal arguments of two female lawyers in humanizing the struggles of the of the LGBT community in the world’s largest democracy. The conference will encourage participants to identify algorithms and the future of machine learning that releases space and time for the collective imagination of public enterprise. It will offer platforms for exploring how alternative finance asks new questions about the future value of money. It will enquire whether all things entrepreneurial can facilitate greater inequality or constrain social and institutional responsibility. And we will support the nurturing of innovative SMEs, new firms and ecosystems. Above all the conference will consider how entrepreneurship can be functionally and epistemologically engaged with other social and economic norms that underpin sustainable diversity as opposed to a sense of corralled inclusivity. The International Entrepreneurship Forum has for the past few years worked in partnership with Banglanatak.com in India to develop a platform for entrepreneurship as a social movement. We will build on this partnership. We will do this in Goa in December 2019, where art, technology and entrepreneurship will combine to seek for economic and social development what the latter demands from our people, our communities, our institutions and our environments. We will work together to nudge entrepreneurship as a social movement. Jay Mitra, Amitava Bhattacharya Essex Business School, University of Essex banglanatak dot com University of Essex Kolkata, India
Conference Curators
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Who should attend?
The conference is open to all who like to create, learn, think and act on new opportunities for sustainable forms of new venture creation in all walks of life. Researchers investigating issues covered by the conference will find a unique platform to disseminate their research. Project developers engaged in collaborative ventures should find opportunities to interact and involve new partners. Policy makers can find new sources of information with which to design creative new policies. Practitioners should discover alternative pathways for growing ventures, sustainably. And students should augment their creative ideas together with all in a productive learning environment. We actively encourage all of you to attend.
What are the proposed sub-themes and how can you contribute? Participants are invited to contribute academic research papers, reflective practice notes, posters, drawing and sketches, videos and other forms of presentations which could fall into the cognate, thematic categories of: (1) Social Innovation, Public and Social Good; (2) Sustainable Economic Development and Growth; (3) Art and Humanities mediating economic and social transformation; (4)Technology and Design – Artefact, Process and Information; (5) Inclusivity and Diversity; and (6) Global Networks and Cultural Dynamics. Participants may wish to consider the issues identified under each of these categories as shown in the table below.
Social Innovation, Public and Social Good;
• Understanding the role of
entrepreneurship for social change;
• Public and collective entrepreneurship;
• Ecosystems of entrepreneurial knowledge creation with citizens;
Sustainable Economic Development and Growth: Earth, Mammon and
• Small, growing ventures in
society; • Social Innovation and
sustainable enterprise; • Entrepreneurship and the
generation of a moral code for economic and social development;
• Transforming and recycling waste to productivity
Art and Humanities mediating economic and social transformation
• Creating, curating, and
generating new art forms for transformative economic and social outcomes;
• Incorporating aesthetics in entrepreneurship policy making;
• The entrepreneur as a creative agent
Technology and Design – Artefact, Process, Information
• Designing public good; • Alternative Finance • Technology, information,
data and crowd wisdom;
Inclusivity and Diversity
• Gender as entrepreneurial message
• The poverty of exclusive entrepreneurship.
• Cultural diversity and creative entrepreneurship
Global Networks and Cultural Dynamics
• Transnational ventures; • Mobile Networks • Globalisation and its
entrepreneurial disconnects
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This is not an exhaustive list. Contributions that explore new territories of the imagination and the empirics of change are particularly welcome. Research papers will be considered for the Conference Proceedings and also for Special Issues of selected Journals, including the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies and Industry and Higher Education Journal (both published by Sage). Help build the conference on our Blog site. In addition to papers we will welcome all to the JEIEE/IEF Blog site (https://ieffutureperfect.net/ ) so that you can help develop the theme of the conference from your own points of view right up to the start of the events and beyond.
Deadlines
For submissions
All prospective participants intending to make a submission please adhere to the following deadlines:
• Abstract submission: 31 July, 2019 • Full paper/other submission: 15 November, 2019* (applies only to competitive papers. Two
best paper awards will be on offer. The deadline for submission of articles for Special Issues will be 31 January, 2020
For Payments
• Payment of conference fees: 30 November, 2019
Conference Fees (Details of how to make payment will follow soon)
All international delegates: UK £ 300 as conference fees (+ optional UK £200 for 3 nights’ accommodation at the International Centre, Goa (ICG)*)
All delegates from LIC countries UK £150 (+ optional UK £200 for 3 nights’ accommodation at the International Centre, Goa (ICG)*)
All Indian delegates Rs 18,000 per person (+ optional Rs. 18000 for 3 nights’ accommodation at the International Centre, Goa (ICG)*)
Doctoral Students UK £75 (UK £30 from LIC countries) (+ optional UK £100 for 3 nights’ accommodation on double sharing basis at the International Centre, Goa (ICG)*)
Conference gala dinner UK £ 30/ Rs. 2500 per person
Pre-Conference Fee UK £25 for participants from outside India
• * = Rooms available on a first come first served basis. Only 40 rooms are available. Delegates may wish to opt for rooms on double sharing basis in which case the cost per room, per person, for 3 nights will be UK £100.
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• The conference fees include registration, conference materials, 3 lunches, one cocktail reception, airport transfers, transfers to and from conference venue, but excludes the cost of the gala dinner, accommodation and travel to and out of Goa.
Accommodation 1. See above for information about the International Centre, Goa. Participants intending to stay at
the ICG should confirm as soon as possible by writing to [email protected]/ [email protected].
2. A limited number of hotels will also be available at a negotiated price for IEF delegates. Details will follow soon. Check the web site.
Goa is a very popular international tourist destination. So you are strongly advised to book accommodation early by contacting the hotels directly, unless you are opting for The International Centre Goa, where you may write to us at [email protected] / [email protected] for the desired booking.
Conference Venue: Sanskruti Bhavan, Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Goa, Patto, Patto Centre, Panaji, Goa
Conference Contact By email: [email protected]/ Web site: http://ieforums.org
Conference programme (Full details to follow soon)
16 December: AM: Registration and networking, Inauguration of Conference, Keynotes, followed by lunch
PM: Panel Session, Parallel Workshops, Cocktail Reception
17 December: Panel sessions, Parallel Workshops and Symposia and Conference Gala Dinner
18 December Panel session, Parallel Workshops and Symposia
Awards and Closing Ceremony
Image sources: livemint/Britannica/goalive
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Pre-Conference Ideas and Design Workshops
13-14 December : Aimed at strengthening local entrepreneurship
Panels and Idea Workshop : For all students intending to be either start or grow new ventures of all kinds. The workshop will be followed by presentations to an evaluation panel of entrepreneurs, policy makers and researchers.
Although these workshops will address issues of local interest, other participants from outside India may wish to join for a small fee of UK £25
Details of this workshop will be available from Banglanatak.com
A doctoral workshop will also be considered subject to demand.
Proposed Pre and Post Conference Cultural Tours and Activities (Optional) (Contact: [email protected] to know more about the tours on offer)
We are arranging an exciting set of pre-conference and post-conference programmes for all who wish to derive the most from studying and exploring creativity in music, art, grassroots enterprise and sustainable and inclusive development.
Pre Conference* Post Conference* (see below) • Dec 11 - Arrival in Kolkata • Dec 12 - Visit Kolkata • Dec 13 - Visit Pingla to see Patachitra, return to
Kolkata, night stay at Kolkata • Dec 14 - Visit Joydeb Kenduli to interact with
Baul musicians and also see Santiniketan, return to Kolkata, night stay at Tepantar
• Dec 15 - To airport to take flight to Goa
• Dec 18 - Departure from Goa at 1 pm onwards (there are multiple options), arrival at Kolkata, night stay at hotel
• Dec 19 - Visit Kolkata • Dec 20 - Visit Pingla to see Patachitra
(Scroll painters' village, who use natural colour) and take train to Purulia Chau Jhumur Festival
• Dec 21 - Visit Charida - Chau Mask Makersvillage and enjoy 9th edition of Chau Jhumur Festival, overnight return train to Kolkata
• Dec 22 - Departure from Kolkata • * = separate costs apply (TBA)
