The 6th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (AIE 2013) will be held in Oxford on 29-30 August 2013, hosted by ODID's Technology and Management for Development (TMD) Centre.

The main theme this year is ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Inclusive and Sustainable Development’.

The Plenary Session on Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Inclusive and Sustainable Development will include confirmed Keynote Speakers Calestous Juma (Harvard University), Luc Soete (Maastricht University), and Anne Miroux (UNCTAD).

It will follow a round table on 'The Transformation from Imitation to Innovation' chaired by Rajneesh Narula (University of Reading). Confirmed panellists include Ives Doz (INSEAD), Augusto Alcorta (UNIDO), David Kaplan (University of Cape Town), and Xiaolan Fu (Oxford University). You can access the general conference programme via the TMD website.

The Vice Chancellor will chair the ceremony for best paper awards in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation. The two awards are sponsored by the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and ISIS Innovation. The conference dinner will be held on Thursday, 29 August at Wadham College. Dr Tom Hockaday, Managing Director of Isis Innovation, will give the dinner speech.

The conference proceedings will be published online on the TMD website with all the contributions to the conference.

To register online, please visit this website.