International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD) Call For papers
Special Issue on: "Innovative Entrepreneurship: Sources of Innovation, Policies and Learning"

Guest Editors:
Dr Alexandros Kakouris, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Professor Panos H. Ketikidis CITY College, Greece

Deadline: 15 November 2010

Innovative entrepreneurship is a growing area of research with an interdisciplinary reach. Modern conceptions about ‘innovating’ have led to a broadening of the term, reflected by the definitions in the latest Oslo manual (OECD 2005). Under a mandatory need for innovation to be “as radical as possible”, open innovation and virtual networks aim to exploit knowledge resources on a global scale so that firms can innovate adequately and in time. Current social problems also provoke the social component of innovation, with eco-innovation at the forefront of the terminology of relevant policies. In accordance with the overall landscape of innovation emergence, innovative entrepreneurship is just arriving in the higher education curricula across Europe, whilst it is already a mature topic in the USA.

Papers should address research questions in the areas, including but not limited to the following topics:

* Features and dynamics of innovation networks
* The open innovation concept and practice
* Sources of innovation and regional development in a knowledge-intensive economy
* Absorptive capacity and regional concentration of knowledge-intensive SMEs
* Innovation, risk and sustainable development
* Aspects of eco-innovation
* Innovative entrepreneurship and regional policy-making
* Entrepreneurial learning: environment, procedures and methods
* Pedagogic approaches for innovative entrepreneurship

Important Dates:

Manuscript due: 15 November 2010
First Notification: 17 January 2011
Second Notification: 14 March 2011
Final manuscript due: 16 May 2011

Dr Alexandros Kakouris
Faculty of Informatics and Telecommunications
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
15783, Panepistimiopolis, Zographos, Athens
Greece
Tel: +302107275220