Topics covered will include but will not be limited to the following:
- Role of universities in promoting innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Supporting the growth and development of SMEs
- Innovation management and the role of technology in the growth of firms
- Innovation and enterprise education within the curriculum
- Extra-curricular innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship education
- Fostering the creation of start-ups
- Technology to support innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Strategies for the integration of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
- Role of innovation hubs and accelerator programmes
- Creativity
- Coaching and mentoring of entrepreneurs
- Innovation parks and business incubation
- Emerging technologies, such as augmented reality technologies and immersive reality in support of innovation
- Technology readiness
- Big data
- Cloud Computing
- AI
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
- Building Information Modelling
- Simulation techniques
- Market adoption of technologies
- Internet of Things
- Futurology and Technology
- The use of technology to support learning and teaching
- Technology and sustainable futures
- Innovation platforms
- Innovation diffusion
- Innovation Policy
- R&D
- Innovation and sustainability
- New ventures creation
- Funding for entrepreneurship
- The application of innovation in various industries
- Case studies and lessons learnt from practitioners