Business start-ups and growth

    How changing economic landscapes impact on start-ups and growth
    Start-up Capital: Debt, equity and crowd funding, corporate venturing, micro-financing
    Going global: The role of innovation in national and regional contexts
    New Market Entrants and emerging technologies disrupting and transforming value propositions
    Market and Customer Development: How to create Sustainable Futures in Science and Technology firms
    Graduate and academic enterprises: The role of Universities (and other institutions) in start – ups
    Lessons learned from business closure/failure

Networks and Innovation

    Thriving in complex environments: the value of networks and relationships
    Knowledge transfer and exchange through networks
    Innovation and collaboration
    Innovation and entrepreneurship
    Science and Technology policy and practice
    The role of the public policy in relation to innovation

Entrepreneurial incubators/accelerators/labs/hubs

    Developing effective incubators/accelerators/labs/hubs
    Best practice in incubators/accelerators/labs/hubs
    Entrepreneurial innovation clusters
    Stakeholder relationships in the development of incubators/accelerators/labs/hubs

Entrepreneurship policy and practice

    Entrepreneurship at national, regional and local levels
    Success and failure in entrepreneurship policy
    Innovation policy
    Support for high-growth start-ups
    Entrepreneurship policy and support in developing/emerging economies
    Alternative way to deliver business support: mainstreaming versus specialist provision
    International comparisons of entrepreneurship policy
    Effective entrepreneurship policy inrecessionary environments
    University/government/business collaboration

Enterprise Education

    Good practice in enterprise education
    The changing nature and role of entrepreneurship education
    Creative approaches in the teaching and delivery of entrepreneurship education
    Action and experiential learning in entrepreneurship education
    Teaching entrepreneurship in non-business and professional disciplines, including science, technology and engineering.
    Innovations in the assessment methods of entrepreneurship education
    Utilising case-methods in entrepreneurship education

Technology Innovation, Transfer and Commercialization across Government, University, Industry domains

    The role of the State and Public Policy with regards to SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Governmental and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation
    Entrepreneurial Universities and Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters
    Entrepreneurship education
    University-Industry collaboration
    ICT and SME Regional competitiveness
    SMEs and the role of the Innovation Zone (business centers and incubators)
    Intangibles Valuation and Intellectual Property Rights
    Innovative Supply Chain Management practices
    Innovative Supply Chains
    Information Technology proliferation in SMEs