New Venture Creation and the Creative Trajectory: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity in Business
This refereed conference will be a collaborative venture between the Riga International School for Economics and Business Administration, in Latvia, the University of Essex Southend, and the OECD, LEED Programme. As the theme suggests, the conference will focus on key issues concerning entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity in business, with a particular (but not exclusive) emphasis on the growing small and medium sized firm. Loose assumptions about the relationship and connections between entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity, are made in various quarters often at the expense of our better understanding of the changing dynamics of industry, economic regeneration and business growth. The much vaunted growth of the ‘creative industries’ and of the assumed need for greater creativity in business and economic activity to enable competitive differentiation between ‘new’ and ‘old’ economies, calls for a coherent approach to the study of creativity in a variety of industry scenarios.

The conference was held 31 August to 2 September 2006 (Riga, Latvia)
 

 

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Deadlines
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted no later than 30 June, 2006.

Full papers must be submitted no later than 15 August, 2006.

Keynote Speakers
Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica
Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of regional development & local government, Latvia

Artis Grinbergs
Deputy Director, Development planning department, Ministry of regional development and local government, Latvia

Ella Kalnina
Head of External Relations Dept., RISEBA

Sergio Arzeni
OECD, LEED Programme

Candace Johnson
President, Europe Online

Dr Rebecca Harding
Director, GEM Programme

Mary Spence
Chief Executive, Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership

6th International Conference
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April 18th, 2007

 
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