Prof. Hans Crijns (Vlerick Leuven School Gent Management School, Belgium)
University of Lodz
Professor Bogdan Piasecki
Prof. Mariusz Bratnicki (Karol Adamiecki University of Economics, Katowice)
After the sixteen previous Workshops (in Brussels 1987, Vienna 1988, Cologne 1989, Durham 1990, Vaxjo 1991, Barcelona 1992, Budapest 1993, Tampere 1994, Piacenza 1995, Brussels 1996, Mannheim 1997, Lyon 1998, London 1999, Prague 2000, Turku 2001 and Barcelona 2002) the RENT-2003 conference will take place in Lodz, Poland and will be hosted by the University of Lodz Development of European culture and economy poses increasingly new challenges before the science of entrepreneurship. Research on entrepreneurship and on small and medium-sized enterprises has to respond to a challenge of practice and seek answers to the most urgent problems, as well as follow the trend of the most important developments in the contemporary world economy. Development of the theory of entrepreneurship and studies of small business behaviour and economics should focus on satisfying these new needs of the European science and economy. Ideally this should be done in the context of the European Research Area (which is also the topic of the EU´s of the 6th Framework Programme) Similarly to the earlier conferences, RENT XVII also wants to address theoretical and practical interpretations of many other phenomena linked with entrepreneurship. RENT XVII in 2003 will be held at a historical moment of Europe’s development. The enlargement of the European Union with ten new countries, will create a new research task concerning opportunities and threats appearing in the field of entrepreneurship and connected with development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Following the tradition, there will be an Award of 1,000 EUR for the best paper presented at the Conference. Exceptionally, a special Award will be given to the best paper on candidate countries. A special Evaluation Committee will assess all the papers submitted. Papers received after the deadline (October 15th, 2003) will not be considered for the Best Paper Award
LOCATION The conference venue is the city of Lodz, the Faculty of Management and Conference Centre at the University of Lodz. ACCOMMODATION : Accommodation in the Conference Centre of the University of Lodz (Hotel Centrum Konferencyjne Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego) which is located ca 150 metres from the Management Faculty (conference venue). The number of rooms is limited (60 rooms). Orders should be made directly at the hotel reception. Address: Conference Centre Hotel University of Lodz , 90-232 Lodz, 16 Kopcińskiego Str , Tel: 0 48 42 635 54 90; fax: 0 48 42 635 54 60, e-mail: cskul@uni.lodz.pl Hotel IBIS : (centrally located ca 3,5 km from the conference venue) Orders should be made directly at the hotel reception. Address: Poland, 90-368 Łódż Al. Piłsudskiego11 tel: (48 42) 638 67 00, fax: (48 42) 638 67 77, e-mail: H3098@accor-hotels.com MAP A map indicating The University, the Railways and bus station, the conference center and the ibis hotel is
At present, the city of Lodz counts 850,000 inhabitants and is the capital of Poland’s central region called the Administrative Province of Lodz. It is located 100 km to the west of Warsaw. For economists and, in particular, for scholars interested in development of the European industry and entrepreneurship, Lodz is an extremely interesting city. It was born almost 200 years on the crossroads of three empires : Russia, Austria and Prussia. During one hundred years, a little town grew into a large agglomeration. Production grew dramatically as well. Lodz is the only example of economic success at such scale in Europe. Nowadays, 17 universities and colleges, dozens of research units, scientific institutions, several thousands of qualified specialists and academic teachers, create an enormous potential. Each year Lodz hosts over 300 scientific conferences, and symposia, and provides courses for 80 thousand students. THE UNIVERSITY OF LODZ AND FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT : The University of Lodz is a young institution in comparison with other Polish universities. At present it educates over 40 thousand students in 25 major subject areas under didactic supervision of 2000 academic teachers, of whom 420 are professors. The Faculty of Management was formed in 1994 out of departments formerly being a part of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the Lodz University. Within not quite 8 years of its existence the Faculty witnessed a significant organisational development. Today the Faculty is composed of 9 Departments (including Department of Entrepreneurship and Industrial Policy). The Faculty is authorised to award doctoral degrees and higher doctoral degrees (habilitation). The Faculty’s development is confirmed by growing enrolment. Taking into account all forms and levels of studies the enrolment rose from 2 500 students to almost 3 500 students. A huge opportunity for its future development is the new building of the Management Faculty, where RENT 2003 will take place, with useful floor area of almost 16 000 square meters, with excellent modern equipped 60 classrooms and auditoriums. TRANSPORTATION FROM WARSAW AIRPORT : Coach Train Taxi to Lodz
Coach Train Taxi to Warsaw HOTEL IN VARSAW EIASM - PLACE DE BROUCKÈRE-PLEIN - 31 - 1000 BRUSSELS - BELGIUM Tel: 32 2 2266662 - Fax: 32 2 5121929 Email: michelante@eiasm.be
November 19th, 2003 Chairman Professor David Smallbone (Middlesex University, U.K.) The doctoral seminar has a successful tradition at RENT and hence will be continued in Lodz. To encourage the emergence of new ideas, communication and dialogue between students and teachers of different countries, in the field of Entrepreneurship and Small Business research, we would like to invite doctoral students to attend this doctoral seminar. Students in early stages of their research are encouraged to participate. All day long, sessions will be organised based on the proposals from the doctoral students, together with some reflections on methodological issues. Doctoral candidates interested in attending and presenting their research proposal (not the results of finished research) should send a one page abstract by July 15th , 2003 to Professor David Smallbone (d.smallbone@mdx.ac.uk) There are possibilities to receive special grants or scholarship from different national science foundations, as well as from dedicated programmes within the EU 6th Framework. These grants need to be persued on a personal and direct bases by the individual students
FEES : This fee includes automatically the 2003-2004 ECSB membership. As member of ECSB, you are automatically a member of ICSB, you receive the quarterly Journal of Small Business Management, you have access to the ECSB website (including the complete ECSB membership directory), you are also entitled to receive the ICSB Bulletin and discount rates for other conferences (including the ICSB World Conference). The fee also includes the conference material, lunches, coffee breaks, the welcome reception and the conference dinner. The special price of EUR 440 is offered to the people coming from Central and Eastern Europe. As usual, the fee includes participation to the conference (and eventually the Doctoral seminar), documents, lunches morning and afternoon refreshments and the Conference dinner
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