{"id":143,"date":"2017-07-14T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euspriconference.polimi.it\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2017-07-14T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:35:28","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.euspriconference.polimi.it\/?page_id=143","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scholars and policy makers have devoted growing attention to innovative entrepreneurship<\/strong><\/span>, i.e. the development of new products\/services or new methods to produce\/deliver existing goods at a lower cost (Baumol et al., 2007). Academics have centered their investigation on the entrepreneur- and firm-level characteristics that facilitate the identification and exploitation of innovative business ideas (Zahra and Wright, 2011; Autio et al., 2014), whereas policy circles (e.g., OECD, European Commission) have focused on the role of innovative entrepreneurship in favoring new jobs creation and economic growth.<\/p>\n

Despite these efforts, there is still a rather poor understanding of innovative entrepreneurship along several dimensions. First, the definition of innovative entrepreneurship is still quite fuzzy (Low & Isserman, 2015). Second, extant literature lacks widely accepted measures of innovative entrepreneurship. As a consequence, current works provide incoherent figures on the size of the phenomenon: the share of innovative ventures on the overall number of new venture ranges from less than 10% to about 50%, depending on the measure used. Finally, there is a compelling need for research about the determinants, the outcomes, and the economic impact of innovative entrepreneurial ventures.<\/p>\n

Moving from these premises, the idea and scope of this two-days conference is to bring together the ongoing research and policy debate on innovative entrepreneurship<\/span><\/strong>. Discussions will provide an overview of the trends<\/strong><\/span>, challenges<\/strong><\/span>, and policy implications<\/strong><\/span> with the aim of improving our understanding of this complex phenomenon. Paper presentations will be enriched by keynote speeches of leading scholars in the field.<\/p>\n

Some broad topics<\/strong><\/span> that might be addressed in papers submitted to the conference include:<\/p>\n