Target Audience
The conference is addressed at national and regional government representatives in all countries of South-East Europe, who are involved in the process of policy making in the area of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. Special target group are enterprises, as well as non-governmental organizations active in conference topics.
The conference brings together policy makers, experts, practitioners, professors, business people and scientists in this subject area. ICEIRD 2010 will make a contribution to policy making and new ideas on competitiveness in the region. Special target audience are students, young researchers, scientists, and their supervisors from academia and industry to present actual research projects and results.
Objectives and Scope of the Conference
We live in a time of change, in a fast evolving, increasingly global and competitive economy. Sustaining a competitive advantage requires that individuals, companies, and nations anticipate, stimulate and manage change rather than simply react to it. This is what entrepreneurship is about: channeling change to your advantage. New ideas generate new realities and this requires knowledge from different disciplines and the ability to combine such insight with the daily practical realities of business life.
We hope that ICEIRD 2010 will give small contribution how to achieve this delicate balance by itself combining both theory and practice, gathering in the same place decision makers (government, ministries- and state agencies), scientists (universities, research and development centres, start-up. centres and incubators) and practitioners (SME's) in order to discuss topic that are of crucial importance for national competitiveness and increased regional development in the South East Europe. The key areas of the conference are:
- Entrepreneurship as a process of identifying opportunities and putting useful ideas into practice; Innovation as the driver of national, regional and global economy;
- Regional development and the possibilities and barriers for closer cooperation between South East European economies.
