Boston University

Metropolitan College

Department of Administrative Sciences

Second International Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Technology (SET-II)

The Paradigm Shift: Entrepreneurship in Next Generation

Venue: 1010, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

December 06-07, 2024 (Friday-Saturday)

This international symposium aims to address the innovation and technology interface with the changing entrepreneurial practices. Specific tracks will deliberate on issues related to core manufacturing, operational, economic, innovation, technological and marketing contextual to the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Discussions in this symposium would critically analyze the convergence of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and consumer values for improving the global-local business paradigm to support regional development.  This conference would also enrich knowledge and skills on contemporary entrepreneurship models and convergence of technology with business strategies; and explore industrial alliance in manufacturing, services, and business and logistics organizations. The symposium would contemplate on developing new technology-led business models and hybrid entrepreneurial perspectives to match with the changing priorities of regional economic development in the developing countries.

Participation

Academics, research scholars, and graduate students from Boston University and other institutions worldwide engaged in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology development, operations management, project management, marketing, strategy, business analytics, and e-commerce management.

What would you achieve?

• An interactive and hands-on approach to work with innovation management tools and techniques
• Ways to explore new industrial scenarios across the destination economies
• Valuable insights on entrepreneurial development prospects, innovation management, managing market competition, and national economic policies towards regional development
• Examples, illustrations and case studies of best practice interventions around the world
• Opportunity to delve deeper into areas such as globalization, industrial marketing strategies, innovation, digital applications, market economics, market environment, trade policies, brand management, investment, market behavior, and more

• A networking opportunity to meet international colleagues and professionals who are grappling with similar issues, problems, and concerns
• Opportunities for collaborative research with experts in the field of innovation, entrepreneurship, project management, and marketing strategy

Symposium Tracks

Track 1: Entrepreneurial Development

• Emerging enterprise development policies
• Corporate alliances and entrepreneurial thrust 
• Political ideologies on developing micro enterprises.
• Public diplomacies and young entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurial business models
• Leadership and skills
• Women entrepreneurs
• Enabling smart enterprises
• Knowledge management

Track 2: Next Generation Challenges

• Innovation in enterprises
• Transfer of technology
• Technology management
• Robotics, AI, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, and system integration
• ICT, Digitization, and Nano-technology
• Disruptive innovation, technology, and threats in business
• Economics of Technology
• Ecommerce, Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Mixed reality, Metaverse
• Digital Design thinking and creativity

Track 3: Enterprise Management

• Resources management
• Industry attractiveness
• Market competitiveness
• Consortium business systems
• Information analytics for enterprises
• Enterprise Architecture-Tools and Techniques
• Lean management
• Circular entrepreneurship and sustainability

Track 4: Enterprise Modelling

• Enterprise Modelling: Innovation & Technology
• Computer Aided Design and Drafting systems
• Digitization, hybridity, and business applications
• Quality of services, critical to quality and voice of customers
• Enterprise resource planning
• New venture development

Track 5: Resource Planning and Management

• Land use planning for micro and SMEs
• Infrastructure planning and management
• Facilities planning and enterprise ergonomics
• Human resources management system
• Organizational culture
• Human resource management.
• Organizational development
• Enterprise sustainability
• Enterprise landscaping policy

Track 6: Enterprise Analytics System

• Entrepreneurial manufacturing systems
• Marketing, logistics, and inventory systems
• Applied business analytics
• Enterprise project management
• Cost and contingency analysis
• Stakeholder value analysis
• Financial indicators analysis
• Identifying shifts in socio-cultural market behavior
• Transportation and communication networks
• Decision Analysis and Forecasting
• Entrepreneurial incubation and commercialization

Track 7 Entrepreneurial Finance Management

• Industrial finance policies
• Banking and investment
• Fintech financing
• Government programs on local finance
• Consortium enterprise management
• Micro financing and enterprise development
• Business venture finance

Track 8 Entrepreneurship Education

• Applied curriculum development
• Research based learning
• Vocational education and entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial education taxonomy (Deductive, Inductive, Experiential)
• Technology-based entrepreneurial education
• Community and Family entrepreneurial education
• Entrepreneurial education tools and techniques
• Capacity building in entrepreneurship

Track 9 Business and Economic Recovery

• Post-pandemic business models
• Post -pandemic corporate alignments
• Enterprise and business recovery
• Economic stimulus and recovery
• Government policies and interventions
• Stakeholder and corporate push

Track 10 Case Studies on Entrepreneurship

• Qualitative research
• Empirical research
• Short narrative case studies
• Failure case studies
• Social responsiveness studies

 Paper Submission: Important Dates and Guidelines

We invite full papers, abstracts, and extended abstracts from interested academics, researchers, and on the above stated topics. The length of the full paper should not exceed 30 pages in double space. The important dates on submissions (tentative) are as detailed below:

• Symposium Announcement-Call for Papers: June 10, 2024
• Submission of extended abstracts (Max. 2500 words): August 31, 2024
• Decision on submissions: September 30, 2024
• Submission of Posters: November 15, 2024
• Submission of Full papers: November 30, 2024
• Symposium registration: Opens November 01, 2024

All submissions (Extended Abstracts and Full Papers) should be made on the Easy Chair in the Word format.  Full paper should be between 6000-8000 words including an abstract (250 words), keywords, Tables, Charts, and references (APA style, 7^th edition). All papers will undergo the double-blind review process. Full papers selected for publication in the anthology will be notified to the author(s) separately with the submission requirements.

All submissions must be typed double-spaced with 2.5 cm or one-inch margins using 12-point Times New Roman font in a single MS Word file. All submissions must include a Title, Authors (names, affiliations, e-mails of all authors and a notation (*) of the corresponding author), an Extended Abstract (no more than 2500 words) and 3-6 Keywords. Full paper (if called for) should not exceed 30 pages, including the Abstract, body of the text (Introduction, Theory, Methods, Findings, Discussion, Conclusions, and Implications), Tables, Figures and References. All paper submissions must include a discussion which addresses the contribution of the author’s work to the advancement of business and business-related science and practice in the Conclusions and Implications section.

All submissions must be entirely original, not previously published, and must not be under concurrent consideration or scheduled for presentation elsewhere.

Symposium Registration

There is no fee for authors to submit the paper to the international symposium. Only the authors/presenters of the accepted paper(s) will be asked to register to present at the Boston University-MET website to secure their spot by paying the applicable fee as follows:

• Academic Faculty and Scholars- US$ 150
• Students-US$ 75
• Boston University faculty, scholars, and students are exempted from the registration fee.

Registration for the conference will open on November 01, 2024.

Publication Opportunities

Selected full papers will be subjected to the double-blind review and upon satisfactory revision published as an Edited book in the book series “Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship and Social Challenges in Developing Economies” published by Springer, Cham: Switzerland as a Palgrave Macmillan Imprint. This book series is being edited by Dr Rajagopal, Distinguished Professor and National Researcher, EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City; and Visiting Professor, Metropolitan College, Boston University, Boston, MA.

The anthology of previous international symposium of 2023 is in production with the Palgrave Macmillan, New York (A Springer Group Company)