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THANK YOU!
May we take this opportunity to thank all our
delegates, speakers, colleagues and friends for your continued
support and interest in our activities and for your participation in
10th IEF conference. We feel that the conference was a success and
we hope you share that feeling with us. Best wishes!
IEF Conference Organizing Committee
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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
hosted 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’”
was held in Bahrain on 9-11
January 2011. This conference was
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
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