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CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISE

Technology Transfer Society (T2S) Annual Conference
Hosted and Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
and
Co-sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and UTEK Corporation
Friday, October 2, 2009

The Technology Transfer Society (T2S) will hold its 2009 annual conference at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Professor Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Plenary Speakers (partial list):
David Audretsch, Indiana University and Max Planck 
Fiona Murray, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sean Safford, University of Chicago Business School
Donald Siegel, University at Albany, SUNY
Mike Wright, University of Nottingham Business School 

The theme of this year's conference is The Entrepreneurial Enterprise. Thematic tracks are listed below (general papers on entrepreneurship and technology transfer are always welcome): 

  • Private-Sector Entrepreneurship 
    • Role of small businesses 
    • Patenting activity 
    • Serial entrepreneurship 
    • Social responsibility of entrepreneurs 
  • Public-Sector Entrepreneurship 
    • Public policy (domestic and international) relating to technological entrepreneurship 
    • Patent policies 
    • Innovation policy and small businesses 
    • Program evaluation 
  • Academic Entrepreneurship 
    • The role of incentives and organizational culture 
    • Technology transfer 
    • Inside/outside impacts from spin-outs 
    • University clusters 
    • Regional economic development issues 
    • Technology transfer and social and environmental responsibility 
  • Social Entrepreneurship 
    • Evolution of a definition 
    • Sustainability issues 
    • Social responsibility issues 
    • Case studies 
Those who wish to present a paper should submit an abstract (template below) by May 1, 2009. Those who wish to organize and chair a session should submit a proposal (template below) also by May 1, 2009. 

Proposals and abstracts should be submitted electronically to all of the program organizers: 

Additional information regarding the 2009 T2S annual conference, including hotel and registration information, will be posted on the BELL website of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (http://entrepreneur.uncg.edu/t2s.html) in the near future. 

Hope to see you in October, 

Professor Donald Siegel, Dean, School of Business, University at Albany, SUNY 
President, Technology Transfer Society
Editor, Journal of Technology Transfer 

Professor Albert N. Link
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology Transfer
(http://www.springer.com/business/journal/10961?detailsPage=journal) 
 

Last modified by Kathy Ruby 6/1/2009