Keynote speakers' presentations and conference procedings from the 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship are now available online. 

The AIE Conference 2013 was successfully held in Oxford from 29-30 August. The conference was hosted by the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), based at the University of Oxford, and co-organised by NERC and RCTI, both based at Tsinghua University.

Keynote speakers’ presentations

• Calestous Juma (Harvard University) “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Low-income economies” (pdf)
• Luc Soete (Maastricht University) “Innovation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development” (pdf)
• Anne Miroux (UNCTAD) (pdf)
• Rajneesh Narula (University of Reading) “The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation in Emerging Economies” (pdf)
• Augusto Alcorta (UNIDO) “From Imitation to Innovation: The BRICS” (pdf)
• Xiaolan Fu (Oxford University) “China’s Quest for Innovation: The Gap between Expectation and Reality” (pdf)
• Yves Doz (INSEAD) “The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation” (pdf)
• David Kaplan (University of Cape Town)

Conference proceedings

“Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive and Sustainable Development” was the general theme of the AIE conference this year. The programme included a wide-range of parallel sessions which covered 9 major topics and 44 sub-themes. More than 180 participants shared their views and did presentations during the conference. The conference proceedings are now available for download in the TMD Publications page.