HHBIC 2020: Haaga-Helia Business Innovation Conference 2020 Helsinki, Finland Helsinki, Finland, November 17-18, 2020

Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences is hosting its first Business Innovation Conference 17th to 18th November 2020 in Helsinki. The conference will focus on the topic "Entrepreneurship for a better future"

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

How to submit your paper?

To submit your full paper to HHBIC2020:

1. Explore the conference tracks and choose the topic that your paper corresponds best.
2. Make sure your paper is in line with writing guidelines.
3. Submit your full paper (including absract) by 30th April 2020. Name the paper in the following way: lastname_firstname_HHBIC2020
4. All papers will be reviewed by experts in their (corresponding) field and will be included in the proceedings of the conference. You will receive peer-reviewed feedback by 8th June 2020. 
5. Please register to the conference after your paper has been approved but no later than 15th October 2020.

List of Topics

The conference is organized around four tracks

1. Entrepreneurial ecosystems driving success

What is the startup’s role in renewing and promoting business, and how do various networks advance entrepreneurial capabilities and growth? The aim is to widen knowledge of how startups will steady their function, how growth and scaling is supported and how the entrepreneurs’ ecosystems are best facilitated. Several higher education institutions utilize various living labs for the development of business and needed competences. We invite you to share successful experiences of driving growth and innovation.

2. The entrepreneurial mindset

Entrepreneurship is a major engine for economic growth and job creation. Individuals work today in shattered projects and in multiple locations. This creates novel entrepreneurship that manifests itself in different forms; part-time and self-employment, micro entrepreneurship, team entrepreneurship, start-ups, serial and portfolio entrepreneurship, business transfers and restart-ups, continuing family business, chain and franchise entrepreneurship, cooperative entrepreneurship, part time entrepreneurship, bloggers, vloggers etc. Nowadays it is getting easier to grow your passion into a business. New areas of entrepreneurship are sports entrepreneurship or gaming entrepreneurship. What kind of individuals and teams foster all these various forms of entrepreneurship?

3. Entrepreneurial learning in higher education

Education, training, counselling, guiding and professional development often provide the knowledge and realization that entrepreneurship is a possible career path. When planning and developing training programmes and the curriculum from a career and entrepreneurship point of view, it should be considered that the process in higher education is not a linear process, rather, it is more like a spiral process. Entrepreneurial learning is an experiential process where enterprising individuals continuously develop their entrepreneurial competence and throughout their professional lives.

4. Other topics related to entrepreneurship

For example, Entrepreneurship and Value Co-creation, or Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy

Keynote speakers

• Taru Pilvi
• Paul Jones

Publication

It is possible to publish submitted papers as part the digital conference proceedings. 

Venue

The conference will be held at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Address: Ratapihantie 13, 00520 Helsinki.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hhbic@haaga-helia.fi