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Welcome to a celebration of a decade of innovation!
2010 is the tenth anniversary of the International Entrepreneurship
Forum (IEF). To mark this occasion we will be hosting a series of
events in different parts of the world culminating in the annual IEF
conference at the beginning of 2011. The 10th conference on the
theme of Entrepreneurship and
Society: “Creating
Social, Economic, Cultural and Personal Value’” will be held in
Bahrain from 9-11
January 2011. This conference is being organised by the Centre
for Entrepreneurship Research (CER), Essex Business School,
University of Essex in partnership with Tamkeen, Bahrain, and with
the OECD LEED Programme at Paris, France.
The conference theme
covers a range of issues critical to societies and economies in
changing times and to the development of entrepreneurship as a major
catalyst for social and economic change. These issues of productive
change, at a time when the global economy has opened up fissures in
our social and economic lives, are preoccupying the minds of
entrepreneurs, policy makers, and researchers all round the world.
The emphasis is increasingly on not just how to protect jobs but to
identify where the new jobs are going to come from in different
parts of the world. Realising those opportunities to create new jobs
and economic activity in a sustainable way is at the heart of change
for creative people, for the organisations which embed economic
activity through different types of social networks, and in
entrepreneurial environments where living and working enjoy a
symbiotic relationship. The multiple manifestations of creativity in
the development of new products, the generation of new services,
better forms of communication, and the development of networks,
allow for the unexpected confluence of ideas, resources, and
different types of business and social activities. These are the
features of entrepreneurship in society, the creative smithy
where new ways of living and working are forged.
The conference
aims to provide a platform for researchers, policy makers and
practitioners in recognition of the increasing flow of ideas,
resources and knowledge between businesses, institutions and policy
makers. The particular
role of entrepreneurship in transforming society through greater and
meaningful economic opportunity is to be found in the flow and mix
of these assets. We hope to let this conference be a ‘flow’ of your
ideas and insights, your debates and deliberations, in the creative
crucible of fast changing, innovation-oriented Bahrain.
Welcome to the
10th Annual IEF conference!
Professor Jay Mitra,
Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK
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