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2008 International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference

“Advancing Small Business and Entrepreneurship: From Research to Results”

June 22— 25, 2008 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Areas of Interest:

- Training and development of small business owners and entrepreneurs: lessons learned
- Entrepreneurship and SME development in transition and developing economies
- Financial and non-financial SME programs and services: impacts and results
- Small business support services – approaches, innovations, impacts
- Innovations in small business financing for start-up and growth
- Development financing: micro-finance, development banking
- Linking entrepreneurship and the commercialization of R&D
- Regional differences in entrepreneurial and SME activity
- Enterprise and innovation centres: their role and impact
- SMEs, export development and internationalization
- Entrepreneurship research: from theory to Practice - Developments in SME management and marketing
- Role of universities and colleges in fostering entrepreneurship - Social, environmental, and ethical responsibility
- Turning research into useful tools to help SMEs - Factors affecting success and failure of SMEs
- Visible minority and ethnic entrepreneurship - Role of SMEs in private sector development
- Regulatory environment and business entry - Tools and techniques for assisting SMEs
- Community and social entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship and economic growth
- Advancing entrepreneurship education - SME clusters and supply chain linkages
- SME productivity and competitiveness - Regional and rural entrepreneurship
- Sustainable development and SMEs - Business start-up and incubation
- International entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial/SME networks
- Older worker entrepreneurship - High-growth entrepreneurship
- Aboriginal entrepreneurship - Women’s entrepreneurship
- Nascent entrepreneurship - Youth entrepreneurship