The University of Cagliari (Italy) and the Telfer School of Management (Canada) are proud to announce the 2^nd Conference of Research in Entrepreneurship, Education and Technology (#CREET) that will take place on 23-24 May 2024 in Cagliari, the regional capital of Sardinia, one of the most beautiful islands located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea.

This annual global conference aims to promote worldwide scholarly collaborations across regions, continents, and academic communities at the intersection of three relevant topics: entrepreneurship, education, and technology. This year’s conference wants to stimulate a debate on the future of our society and how entrepreneurship, education, and technology can transform, impact, and draw insights for it. Nowadays, the knowledge-based society experiences rapid changes due to the increasing Artificial Intelligence (AI) power, disruptive digital factors, and global digital networks. Researchers and educators have become aware that there is an urgent need to understand how research can help our society prepare entrepreneurs, managers, and policymakers for a future global knowledge economy and continuously changing scenarios that push to transform our way of thinking and doing.

Therefore, in this year conference, our distinguished keynote speakers, Prof. Miruna Radu-Lefebvre (Audencia Business School, France) and Prof. Magnus Klofsten (Linköping University, Sweden) will provide their perspectives on how to address these topics and their intersection in these challenging times. Moreover, two thematic symposia will draw our attention, one to the links between technology and current organizing and entrepreneurial practices and the other one to future perspectives by trying to imagine utopias, dystopia, and heterotopias. Therefore, three main general research questions are inspiring this annual CREET conference:

1. What can we expect from the intersection of entrepreneurship, education, and technology?
2. What can be the role of technology in our society and how it relates to entrepreneurship and education?
3. What lines of research should be prioritized to size current challenges at the economic and societal levels?

This annual international conference will call on entrepreneurship, innovation, education, and technology management scholars to concentrate on creating and strengthening connections and debates, even if not exclusively, around these main research questions and related topics. Particularly, we welcome unpublished working papers from all research areas regarding entrepreneurship, education and technology.

Examples of suitable topics for the conference include:

• Theoretical and philosophical underpinnings
  • philosophical underpinnings at the intersection of entrepreneurship, education, and technology;
  • entrepreneurship and disruptive technology factors: artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, Internet of things, robotics.
• Intersection among entrepreneurship, education and technology
  • entrepreneurship, education, technology and regional and global dynamics;
  • entrepreneurship, education and technology in higher education institutions;
  • emerging technologies and converging industries: Fintech, new health, new space, etc.;
  • organizing for technology, entrepreneurship, and education;
  • entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional development;
  • new venture formation processes, financing, and strategies;
  • technology-based incubators and accelerators;
  • business model innovation;
  • open innovation and distributed innovation.
• Research and its impact
  • institutions and policies to enhance technology entrepreneurship and innovation;
  • university and science-based innovation and technology transfer;
  • challenges of entrepreneurial universities;
  • assessment and impact measurement of entrepreneurship education;
  • entrepreneurship new teaching models based on digital technologies.
• Emerging ideas on…
  • disruptive technologies and the rise of sport entrepreneurship and education
  • sport management at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and education;
  • combining technology, entrepreneurship and education in sustainable conference tourism.

Please send your abstract’s electronic version (.pdf) to the following e-mail address: creet24@unica.it no later than March, 3 2024. Abstracts must not exceed three (3) single-spaced pages and may not exceed a maximum limit of 1000 words. We use a double-blind review process, so the name and information of the author(s) should NOT appear anywhere in the abstract butt should be in the text of the e-mail (authors’ guidelines and template).

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

• Abstract submission deadline: March 03, 2024
• Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection: March 15, 2024
• Early bird conference registration deadline: May 6, 2024 (EXTENDED)
• Conference registration deadline: May 15, 2024
• Conference date: May 23-24, 2024

REGISTRATION

• Early Bird Registration: €250 until May 6, 2024
• Regular Registration: €300 from May 7, 2024
• Early Bird Student Registration: €180 until May 6, 2024
• Regular Student Registration: €220 from May 7, 2024

Registration is now open!

You must register online by filling this form. You will then receive an invoice with payment instruction included.

The Conference Fee includes: coffee breaks and lunches on 23th and 24th May, 2024.

The Conference social dinner is scheduled on 24th May 2024 and has a separate cost of 50 euro, which is not included in the conference fee.

For more info, please, contact us at the following email addresses: segreteriasea@unica.it  & creet24@unica.it

Michela Loi, PhD