A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Preface
These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 7th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
(ECIE 2012), hosted this year by Escola Superior de Gestão e Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal.
The Conference Chair is Professor Ilídio Tomás Lopes and the Programme Co-Chairs are Dr. Carla Vivas and Dr.
Fernando Lucas, all from the School of Management and Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal
The opening keynote is given by Professor Dr Soumodip Sarkar from the University of Évora, Portugal on the topic “Innovation
and its Dynamics- An Integrated Model”. The second day will be opened with a keynote from Dr Heather
Fulford from the Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Heather will address “The Entrepreneurship Classroom: A meeting
of minds and hearts?”
ECIE continues to develop and evolve. Now in its 7th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to
share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects
covered by the papers illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and growing area of research.
With an initial submission of 221 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 85 academic papers,
16 PhD papers and 3 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent
research from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey and the UK.
I hope that you enjoy reading these Proceedings.
Dr. Carla Vivas and Dr. Fernando Lucas
Co-Programme Chairs
Professor Ilídio Tomás Lopes
Conference Chair
September 2012
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