McGill 2024 Program

The program is available for the registered participants HERE

Below is a preliminary program overview; we reserve the right to make minor changes.

Pre-conference day (14.8) - requires a separate registration

9:00 - 17:00 Methodology Workshops and Doctoral Colloquium program: 

• Dr. Noemi Sinkovics, University of Glasgow, the UK 

"Literature Reviews in the Age of Information Overload" - 2 hours
"Introduction to NVivo" - 2 hours

• Prof. Tanja Leppäaho, LUT University & Prof. Tuija Mainela, University of Oulu, Finland 

"Potential and Practice of Historical Methods for IE Research" - 2 hours

• Prof. Allan O'Connor, University of South Australia, Australia 

"Advancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research in International Entrepreneurship Contexts: The Contribution of Ecological Ideas" - 4 hours

• Prof. John Cadogan - “What are conceptual variables?” - 2 hours

15:30 - LUT Campus tour

18:00 - Informal program for the doctoral colloquium and workshop participants

15.8 – Conference Day 1 

9:00 - 12:15 - Doctoral Colloquium presentations

13:30-15:00 - Opening keynote

15:30 - 17:30 - Industrial Panel with the case companies presentations (Vaisala, Zoy, SpinDrive)

18:30 - 21:00 - Welcome Reception 

16.8 - Conference Day 2

9:00 - 10:30 - Prof. Peter Buckley's Keynote Speech

10:45 - 17:00 - Parallel Sessions and Journals’special issues sessions

18:30 - 22:00 Social Dinner at Saimaa lake cruise

17.8 - Conference Day 3

9:00 - 10:30 Methods in IE - Panel Discussion

Special Session on Introduction to Configurational Analysis (QCA) by Prof. Ursula Ott Nottingham Trent University, the UK 

10:45-17:00 Parallel Sessions and Project Presentations 

Post-conference Day (18.8) (by invitation)

Guest Keynote Speakers

• Professor Peter Buckley from the Alliance Manchester Business School, the UK, is an honorary Doctor at LUT University. He has published over 250 refereed articles and 28 books plus edited 20 more that have over 49,300 Google citations (h-index 90).  He was awarded the JIBS Platinum Medal for Scholarship as the most frequent contributor during the first 50 years of the journal (2019), and the British Academy of Management Medal for Research, 2021.

• Professor David Audretsch is a Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, the US, where he also serves as Director of the Institute for Development Strategies.  Audretsch's research has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development and global competitiveness. He is co-author of The Seven Secrets of Germany, published by Oxford University Press and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal. Audretsch has consulted with numerous international organizations, including the World Bank, OECD, the European Union and the United Nations.