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Vol. 4, No. 11 (June 4, 2007)

Table of Contents:

- General Announcements

- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information

- Call for Submissions


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General Announcements:

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The TIM Division’s Spring Newsletter is now available at the TIM Division’s
website (http://www.aomtim.org/ ...in case you forgot to bookmark it!). This
Newsletter is probably the finest newsletter I have ever been a part of.
There is something in it for everyone interested in the TIM Division.

Amongst the topics included are an update regarding the TIM Division’s
Program and PDW opportunities at the 2007 Academy of Management in
Philadelphia, information about the Junior Faculty Consortium, the Best
Dissertation Award, the Best Paper & Best Student Paper Awards, and the
Doctoral Consortium.

Are you interested in being a part of the leadership of the fastest growing
(and bestest) division of the Academy? One opportunity discussed in the
newsletter is serving as the listserv moderator (at least we can see what
Drew really does with all of our emails).

The TIM Distinguish Speaker, Welcome Breakfast, Best Dissertation
Presentations (new this year), TIM Business Meeting, and Social (“best in
town!”) times, dates, and descriptions are in this Newsletter. There are
announcements about calls for papers, books & PDWs, and jobs, too.

Dr. Donald E. Hatfield
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
& Entrepreneurship
2007 Pamplin Hall (0233)
Pamplin College of Business
Virginia Tech (VPI&SU)
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0001
Phone: 540 231-4687
Fax: 540 231-3076

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Dr. Fred Phillips has been named Senior Editor of Elsevier’s international
journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Published continuously
since 1967, TFSC presents peer-reviewed advances in technology assessment,
forecasting, and policy.

With a print subscriber base of 1,000 and many more readers accessing
individual articles via ScienceDirect.com, TFSC is read and quoted by policy
makers worldwide. Submissions to the journal, now originating equally from
Europe, Asia and the Americas, have risen 50% over the past two years.

TFSC articles and rejoinders are spotlighted by the popular business press.
Examples include debates on Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near: When
Humans Transcend Biology,” and on Jonathan Huebner’s “A possible declining
trend for worldwide innovation.” A reporter’s account of Huebner’s article
became a cover story for London’s Sunday Times in 2005.

Dr. Phillips will cooperate with TFSC Founding Editor Harold Linstone in
transferring journal management duties as Dr. Linstone nears retirement.
Dr. Phillips has been Associate Editor of TFSC since 1999, and a member of
the journal’s editorial advisory board since 1996.

Dr. Phillips is Associate Provost for Research at Alliant International
University in San Diego, California. He is also a Professor at Maastricht
School of Management in the Netherlands, and a Senior Fellow of the IC2
Institute of the University of Texas at Austin.

TFSC's web page is
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505740/descript
ion, and Fred Phillips can be reached at fphillips@alliant.edu.

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I have published several books as editor of the IAP publishers Research in
Management Education and Development series. They are super agile needing
only two months from receipt of final drafts to publish. This compares with
six to nine months that my other publishers require. I have been very happy
with IAP’s presence at the Academy of Management meetings and their sending
catalogues to every member of the Academy. Therefore, when I received the
below information that the publisher is looking for a sharp increase in
books and series on management, I have decided (without consultation with
the publisher) to forward this information to you. If you have a record of
significant publication and are affiliated with a research university, I
suspect you will find George Johnson at IAP, who handles management book
acquisitions, receptive.

Cybercollegially,
Charlie Wankel
St. John’s University, New York
wankelc@stjohns.edu
http://management-education.net

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Dear Management Specialist:

IAP- Information Age Publishing, Inc continues its efforts to build a
premier publications program in the fields of Management, Leadership and
Industrial & Organizational Psychology. We are interested in individual book
proposals as well as series edited by officers for scholarly societies,
divisions, interest groups etc. We have an EOQ that allows us to having
printing on demand rather than holding high inventories. This cutting edge
technology keeps books in print too. We publish journals, book series,
handbooks, encyclopedias, as well as monographs on all levels.

We are also pleased to announce an addition to our editorial advisory staff:
Lawrence R. Jones from the Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey,
California. Larry will join Gerald R. Ferris from Florida State University,
and I to continue to build a stronger program for IAP and seek to develop
relationships with management professors for high quality publishing of
important scholarly books. http://www.infoagepub.com/about.html

Access our Management Catalog to peruse our complete list of titles:
http://www.infoagepub.com/products/catalogs/IAPman2006.pdf


Cordially,
George F. Johnson, President
george@infoagepub.com
(704) 752-9125
http://www.infoagepub.com

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Dear All

I have just been elected to the MSR Program Chair-Elect (aka PDW
coordinator) which is the first rung in a 5-year sequence that culminates in
MSR Past-Chair (aka elections coordinator). I am planning to attend the AOM
2007 Meeting in the month of August and looking for accommodation.

In the meantime, my wife and me we are traveling to Japan for 16 days
holidays starting from June 10. It will be rewarding if I can develop some
contacts with members in Japan. My current interests are project management
and learning consultation, and academic interests of lecturing, leading
seminars, and research. My PhD research was "Analysis of knowledge, skills
and expertise for effective decision-making in project management."

I will deeply appreciate any information and your response, please
Kind regards
Debu

Debu Mukerji
FIEAust CPEng Mechanical Engineering College;
FAIM, LMIIM, BMet, GradDipEd, M.Sc(Mgmt), PhD candidate (Macquarie)
Management & Learning Consultant,
Academic Director and Lecturer-in-Charge (UNSW)
22A Hillside Crescent, Epping NSW
Sydney 2121, Australia
Tel/Fax +612 9877 0122,
Mobile 0424417790
Email debum@optusnet.com.au (Private)
dmukerji@efs.mq.edu.au (Macquarie University)
http:members.optusnet.com.au/debum1

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- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information

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The third "The Power of Richness: Qualitative Research" PDW at the Academy
meetings will feature 3 types of HANDS ON, INTERACTIVE sessions in addition
to the panel session by distinguished scholars. This year the focus is on
how to craft qualitative research papers, and the list of people on the
program has greatly expanded.

At the beginning (from 1pm to 3 pm) we have again a great panel (Stephen
Barley, Stanford University; John Van Maanen, MIT; Andrew Hargadon, UC
Davis; Bill McKelvey; UCLA) who will share their views on how to craft
qualitative research.

Then from 3-5 pm many of our past panelists plus many more will join us for
interactive sessions to address in more detail issues raised in past years.

These interactive session will take one of three forms:

1) working paper feedback--a golden opportunity to get working paper
feedback from seasoned scholars before submitting your paper to a journal.
Jean Bartunke, Diana Day, Kimberly D Elsbach, C. Marlena Fiol, Mariann
Jelinek, Candace Jones, Mitchell P Koza, Chet Miller, J. Peter Murmann,
Michael Pratt, Christine Quinn-Trank, and Nicolaj Siggelkow will be the
discussants.

2) tutorials by Karen D Locke, College of William and Mary; Mauro Guillen,
Wharton; Klaus Weber, Kellogg; and Mark Zbaracki, New York University.

3) conversations with editors of leading journals (Linda Argote and Deborah
Dougherty, Organization Science; Sara Rynes, AMJ; Edward Zajac, SMJ; and
John Wagner, ASQ) on how to get qualitative research published.

If you would like to get feedback on your paper, please send it to Diana Day
(dlday@camden.rutgers.edu) by July 13. Papers will be selected on a first
come, first get accepted basis until we have filled all available slots.

More details on the schedule for the entire program and description of the
tutorials and the list of seasoned scholars who have volunteered to give you
feedback on your paper can be found at:

http://professor-murmann.info/index.php/forums/viewthread/17/

We hope to see many of you again as well as many new faces in Philadelphia.

Best wishes,

Diana Day & J. Peter Murmann

Johann Peter Murmann

Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director of the Executive Year at the AGSM
Head of the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Australian School of Business at UNSW
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2 9931 9258 Fax: +61 (0)2 9313 7279
Web: http://professor-murmann.net
Working Papers: http://ssrn.com/author=375099
My recent book: http://knowledge-and-competitive-advantage.info/

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Apologies for cross-listings.

2007 Entrepreneurship Division Junior Faculty Consortium
Announcement and Application Information

The Entrepreneurship Division will sponsor a Junior Faculty Consortium as
part of the Professional Development Workshops at the Annual Academy of
Management Meetings in Philadelphia. The Junior Faculty Consortium will
take place on the afternoon of Friday, August 3, 2007 at Wharton (followed
by dinner at the nearby White Dog Cafe) and the morning of Sunday, August 5,
2007 at one of the conference hotels. Participants will be able to attend
other PDW sessions on Saturday.

This program is specifically designed for junior faculty members (Assistant
Professors) in the Entrepreneurship Division who are half way to tenure.
The purpose of the consortium is to provide the knowledge you will need as
you prepare for the tenure process, as well as the opportunity to meet other
entrepreneurship faculty members. Sessions on Friday will cover topics such
as the tenure dossier, the psychology of the process, career management,
alternatives to tenure, and post-tenure: what changes and what doesnt. On
Sunday, we will meet with editors from the leading journals in the field to
gain insights about crafting scholarly articles and publishing in top
scholarly journals.

Faculty Fellows for the 2007 Consortium include:
* Raffi Amit, Wharton School
* Nancy Carter, Vice-President, Research, Catalyst
* Per Davidsson, Queensland University of Technology and Jonkoping
International Business
School

* Rita Gunther McGrath, Columbia Business School
* Tricia McDougall, Indiana University
* Mark Rice, Babson College
* Maria Rotundo, University of Toronto
* William B. Gartner and Becky Reuber will chair the 2007 JFC.

The Consortium will be limited to 25 participants to allow lots of time for
interaction and qualified participants will be admitted on a first come,
first served basis.

To apply, please send the three items described below by email attachments
to both Bill Gartner (gartner@clemson.edu) and Becky Reuber
(reuber@rotman.utoronto.ca). Each item should be in a separate Word
document.

Send to:

Bill Gartner, Clemson University (gartner@clemson.edu)
Becky Reuber, University of Toronto (reuber@rotman.utoronto.ca)

1. A short (one page or less) biographical sketch, which we can
distribute to all participants. Make sure it includes your complete contact
information (address, phone number, e-mail address) and describes your
research interests and teaching areas.

2. A short (one page or less) tenure-related sketch, which will not be
distributed. It should contain:
* a list of any other doctoral consortia and new/junior faculty consortia
you have attended (and which year);
* when you expect to submit your tenure dossier to your university;
* a short description of the tenure requirements of your university;
* a short description of any questions, topics or issues you would like to
have addressed during the consortium.

3. A current resumé/CV.

Applications must be received by June 15, 2007

We look forward to an exciting and highly informative consortium. Please
pass this information on to anyone you know of who might be interested. If
you have questions, please feel free to email Bill or Becky.

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Call for Submissions:

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Information Systems Research, Special Issue Announcement, "Digital Systems
and Competition"

FOCUS

Digital systems within and across firm boundaries have become fundamental to
business operations, spanning multiple activities in value chains and supply
chains. As firms continue to digitize their business processes and enhance
their capabilities via increasingly powerful computing platforms, they are
better able to access and process critical knowledge in real-time,
increasing their awareness of emerging market opportunities, and their
ability to respond to those opportunities. Business actions are becoming
increasingly inseparable from information technology (IT), either IT-enabled
or IT-induced. Consequently, digital systems, and IT in general, are
becoming core to many products and services, and thereby becoming
indistinguishable from the rest of the business. Thus, there is a pressing
need to move toward a more expansive view of the relationship between
digital systems and competitive action.

Digital systems are inter-related with emergent forms of competition in
several important ways.
First, digital systems impact competitive actions and competitive dynamics.
For example, in the airline industry, retail automation, co-host programs,
discriminatory pricing, frequent flyer programs, joint marketing
arrangements, dynamic pricing, and incentive programs are examples of
competitive actions that have been enabled by digital systems, but
constitute the core of the airline business. Strassmann (2005) emphasizes
the use of IT-induced or enabled competitive actions as a new kind of IT
value measure. According to him, companies should evaluate how much of their
technology actually supports competitive actions, and how much is allocated
to support functions such as finance, personnel, and corporate management?
Understanding the impacts of digital systems on competition could benefit
from the adoption of a competitive dynamics perspective (Smith, Ferrier, and
Ndofor, 2001). Grounded in Austrian economics and Schumpeter’s (1934) theory
of creative destruction, this perspective recognizes the need to explicitly
account for the dynamic and adaptive process-based relationships in complex,
interactive research contexts, and focuses on the process of how firms
act-react to their environment in order to achieve greater competitiveness.

Second, digital systems enable different forms of competition, which might
even involve collaboration among competitors. By providing a common
infrastructure for managing interdependencies within and across firms, many
digital systems have opened new avenues for collaborative linkages among
competing firms, leading to growing “co-opetition” (i.e., concurrent
collaboration and competition) in e-business. Digital systems enable this
through numerous means, including shared repositories, real-time integration
of business processes, electronic communities that foster learning and
relationships, and virtual organizations that allow rapid assembly of
external resources and capabilities (Strader, Lin, and Shaw, 1998).

Third, widespread use of digital systems enables competition to occur across
traditionally defined industry boundaries. Although research on competitive
actions and IS has largely focused on firms that compete as direct rivals in
industry contexts that are fairly circumscribed, it has become increasingly
important to account for competition among indirect rivals from industries
that are tangential or altogether unrelated from the focal industry. For
example, as they becoming increasingly reliant on web-based ticketing,
airlines face competition from firms such as sidestep.com and
travelocity.com. Similarly, retailers of all kinds face competition from
pricewatch.com and amazon.com.

This special issue of ISR is designed to stimulate fresh investigation of
the relationship between digital systems and emergent competition. All
lenses of inquiry into the nature of this relationship are encouraged,
including: strategic, organizational, behavioral, economic, and technical.
The special issue welcomes theoretical, analytical, and empirical (using any
kind of research method, including case studies, simulations, surveys, and
so on) examinations of topics dealing with relationships in this area. The
research topics addressed in the papers might relate to some of the trends
mentioned above, or to other aspects of the relationship between digital
systems and competition.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Relationships between digital systems and competitive actions
• Relationships between digital systems and emerging forms of
competition
• Dynamics of digital systems and competitive actions in inter-firms
networks
• Digital systems as enabling or inhibiting competition across
industries
• Links between digital systems, competitive actions, and firm
performance
• Contingency impacts of the nature of the firm, the firm’s industry,
the firm’s socio-political environment, and the role of IT
• Competitive action measures for gauging impacts of digital systems
on competitive actions (and consequent firm performance)
• Longitudinal evolution of the linkage between a firm’s digital
systems and competition
• Firm and network capabilities for leveraging digital systems in
competitive actions
• Links between IT investments, IT capabilities, complementary
organizational capabilities, and competitive actions.
• Dynamics of competitive actions in the digital goods industry
(media, content, software,
travel services, retail finance, etc.).
• IT-enabled new product development, pricing, multi-channel
marketing, and competitive dynamics
• The role of standards in competing through digital systems
• Economics of digital systems and competition

References

Schumpeter, J.A. The Theory of Economic Development. Cambridge, Harvard
University Press, MA, 1934.
Smith, K.G., Ferrier, W.J., and Ndofor, H. “Competitive Dynamics Research:
Critique and Future Directions,” in Handbook of Strategic Management, M. A.
Hitt, R. E. Freeman and Jeffrey S.
Harrison (eds.), Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, 2001, pp. 315-361.
Strader, T.J., Lin, F.R., and Shaw, M.J. “Information Structure for
Electronic Virtual Organization Management,” Decision Support Systems, (23),
1998, pp. 75-94.
Strassmann, P.A. “Real Numbers: Taking a Bite out of Overhead,” Baseline,
May 2005, pp. 30.

GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD

Senior Editors (listed alphabetically):

Walter J. Ferrier, University of Kentucky (walter.ferrier@uky.edu) Clyde W.
Holsapple, University of Kentucky (cwhols@uky.edu) Rajiv Sabherwal,
University of Missouri – St. Louis (sabherwal@umsl.edu)


Editorial Review Board:
Members of the Editorial Review Board for the special issue have been
recruited from among prominent researchers in the areas of:
• competitive dynamics
• impacts of information technology on firm performance.

The Editorial Review Board for this special issue is comprised of the
following scholars (listed
alphabetically):

Anitesh Barua, University of Texas-Austin; Manuel Becerra, Instituto de
Empresa (Spain); Anandhi Bharadwaj, Emory University; Sudip Bhattacharjee,
University of Connecticut; Ram Chellappa, Emory University; Ming-Jer Chen,
University of Virginia; Lei Chi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Vivek
Choudhury, University of Cincinnati; Brian Dos Santos, University of
Louisville; Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California; Samer Faraj,
University of Maryland; Avi Fiegenbaum, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology (Israel); Devi Gnyawali, Virginia Tech University; Curt Grimm,
University of Maryland; Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University (Sweden); Ram
Gopal, University of Connecticut; Varun Grover, Clemson University; Alok
Gupta, University of Minnesota; Kai-Lung Hui, City University of Hong Kong
(Hong Kong) and National University of Singapore (Singapore); Prabhudev
Konana, University of Texas-Austin; Juha-Antti Lamberg, Helsinki University
of Technology (Finland); Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne (Germany);
Ravi Madhavan, University of Pittsburgh; Rich Makadok, Emory University;
Arvind Malhotra, University of North Carolina; Hermann Nfdofor, Texas A&M
University; Mogens Kühn Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark);
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona; Ram Ramesh, University at Buffalo, The
State University of New York; H.R. Rao, University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York; T. (Ravi) Ravichandran, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; Ken Smith, University of Maryland; Michael D. Smith, Carnegie
Mellon University; Bruce W. Weber, London Business School (United Kingdom);
Youngjin Yoo, Temple University; Greg Young, North Carolina State
University.


TIME TABLE

Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2008
Symposium hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (possibly in nearby
Hartford CT): circa March 2009

PROCESS
• Researchers interested in submitting papers are invited to submit
their paper ideas to the
senior editors by November 2007 for early reactions.
• All research paper submissions must be made through ISR’s online
submission system which can be accessed at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isr.
• All submitted papers will receive an initial screening by the Senior
Editors. Only papers that are deemed a priori to have a reasonable chance of
acceptance in an accelerated review process will remain under consideration.
Papers that do not pass this initial screening will not be considered
further.
• Papers that pass the initial screening will undergo no more than
three rounds of review (i.e., two revisions). Papers not accepted by the end
of the third round will be rejected. Papers will be returned to the authors
for a second revision only if the revisions to be undertaken after the
second round are fairly straightforward.
• Following the first round of review, authors of papers for which
revisions are invited will be asked to present their work at a conference
organized around the special issue theme and sponsored by the Lally School
of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in early
2009. These authors will be required to present their work at the conference
in order to have their papers remain under consideration. Attendees will be
expected to cover their own travel and lodging expenses. The conference will
be valuable in providing feedback to authors, enhancing insights into the
nature of their research efforts/results, and stimulating interest in the
special issue theme.
• Authors must adhere to a strict schedule for submission and revision
of papers:
o the first round of reviews will be returned to authors three months
after the initial submission date
o the first revision of the paper will be due three months after the
return of the first round of reviews
o the second round of reviews will be returned to authors two months
after the conference
o the second revision of the paper will be due two months after return
of the second round of reviews
o a final decision on the paper will be made within two months of the
receipt of the second
revision of the paper
o papers that miss revision deadlines will be rejected
o Rejected papers can be submitted as regular submissions to
Information Systems Research only if such an action is recommended in the
Special Issue rejection letter. A recommendation to revise and resubmit as a
regular Information Systems Research article will only be undertaken in
special circumstances, such as when a formally reviewed manuscript was found
to possess a strong likelihood of acceptance but was deemed to either be a
poor fit with the theme of the Special Issue or required revisions which,
while perceived to be feasible, are unlikely to be accomplished within the
Special Issue’s accelerated review schedule.

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International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship

Special Research Forum Call for Papers:
Innovation, Market, and Organizations

The International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship (IJTE) is pleased to
announce a call for papers for the special issue on Innovation, Market, and
Organizations. The Guest Editor is Srikanth Paruchuri, University of
Florida.

The goal of the paper is to attract research and papers on an important
issue of the interaction among innovation, market, and organization. Long
time ago, Schumpeter posed an important question about the organizational
origin of innovation: do innovations origin in small vs. large firms? Prior
research, for example, has examined if the competence-destroying (and
competence-enhancing) innovations are generated in small, innovative firms
or in large firms. While this
research is mostly geared toward understanding the origins of innovation, it
has not given much less importance to another critical link, that many of
the founders of the small firms would have gained expertise by working in
large organizations (or academic institutions) just before (or while)
starting their venture. In some cases of new ventures, these same large
organizations (or academic institutions) even play an important role by
financing the ventures. These issues suggest a much more complicated
interaction among innovation, market, and organization.

This special issue tries to extend our understanding of these complex
issues. To this end, we invite papers that try to uncover these complicated
relations among innovation, market, and organization. We interpret
innovations to include wide range of innovations: product,
process, service, organizational, and technological innovations. We invite
papers that study these relations at various levels of analysis including
team, organization, industry, and population. We would also like to invite
research that uses R&D consortia, alliances and joint
ventures as links between innovations and organizations.

Papers could include either theoretical or empirical research. Some themes
in this issue include but are not limited to the following.
- Do innovations follow or precede venture formation?
- Do entrepreneurs' prior organizations finance new ventures? If so, what
are the antecedents and consequences of this financing?
- How do ventures develop their own research capabilities independent of
their founders' capabilities? Is this process influenced by venture's
relationships with other organizations?
- What role do R&D consortia, alliances, joint ventures and networks in
general play in generating innovations within a new venture? And, are these
roles of consortia, alliances, and joint ventures different when a large
firm forms these ties?
- ...

Taking into consideration the international readership, we invite research
based in diverse empirical settings. These settings could be based within a
national boundary or across different national boundaries. Studies could
compare and contrast different cultures of innovation and entrepreneurship,
or focus on a specific context and explore rich relationships within that
context.

Considering there is so little in the practical world to guide managers,
this special issue is also intended to influence the practice of management.
Consequently, we invite research that is grounded solidly in theory (and in
empirical methodology for empirical papers), and also
request the authors to highlight the implications for managers.
Specifically, authors should shed light on the principles of management that
their research contributes.

Manuscripts must follow IJTE standard requirements as specified in the
"Style Guide for Authors." Cover letters must specify that the paper is
intended for the special issue.
All details are available at: www.inderscience.com/ijte

Papers must be received no later than January 31, 2008 with a publication of
the Special Issue scheduled for the end of 2008.

Prospective contributors desiring additional information should contact
Srikanth Paruchuri at University of Florida, Gainesville (paruchur@ufl.edu).

Francois Therin, D.B.A.
Associate Professor & Assistant Dean
Editor, International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship
Grenoble Ecole de Management
12, Rue Pierre Semard, 38000 Grenoble- France
Tel: +33 476706237
Fax: +33 476706099
Mobile: +33 622962005

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Dear Colleagues:
Below please find a call for papers for the 2007 Technology Transfer Society
Meetings, which will be held in Palm Desert, CA. I

Thanks,
Don Siegel

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CALL FOR PAPERS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION Technology Transfer
Society (T2S) Conference Hosted by the University of California, Riverside
Palm Desert Graduate Center and Co-Sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation
Wednesday, October 24 – Friday, October 26, 2007 The Technology Transfer
Society (T2S) will hold its 2007 annual conference at the University of
California, Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center
(http://palmdesert.ucr.edu/).

The theme of this year’s conference is “Entrepreneurship and Technology
Commercialization.”

Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
• Best Practices in Patenting and Licensing • Technology Commercialization
at Federal Labs • Entrepreneurial Leadership and Technology
Commercialization • Entrepreneurial Universities • Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Policy • Open Source • Research Parks, Incubators, Spin-Offs, and
Start-Ups • Social Entrepreneurship in High-Technology Industries • Sources
of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization • State and Regional
Policies Promoting Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization •
Technology Infrastructure • Women Entrepreneurs • Women in Science

Those who wish to organize and chair a session should submit a proposal
(title of the session, brief description of the session’s focus, and names
and affiliations of three confirmed paper
presenters) by Friday, June 15, 2007.

Those who wish to present a paper should submit an abstract (title of the
paper and a 100 to 150 words description) by Friday June 15, 2007.

Proposals and abstracts should be sent electronically to both of the program
organizers:

Professor Donald Siegel: donald.siegel@ucr.edu Professor Albert Link:
anlink@uncg.edu

Additional information regarding the 2007 T2S conference, including hotel
and registration information, will soon be posted on the Society’s website:
http://www.t2society.org

Dr. Donald Siegel
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies A.
Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management University of California,
Riverside
225 Anderson Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: (760) 834-0593
Tel: (951) 827-4996
Fax: (951) 827-3970
Fax: (760) 834-0796
e-mail: donalds@ucr.edu
http://www.agsm.ucr.edu/index2.php?content=faculty/staff/don.html
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psi32.htm
http://ssrn.com/author=33607
Editor-Journal of Technology Transfer
http://www.springer.com/west/home/business?SGWID=4-40517-70-35751012-details
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