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ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS: How Entrepreneurs "Connect the Dots" to Identify New Business Opportunities   DEADLINE:  September 20th, 2010   The objective of this issue is to lay the grounds for a discussion around the state-of-the-art, providing professionals, policy makers, researchers and academics with the opportunity of presenting their contributions and establishing discussion on entrepreneurship in society, business corporate strategy and government economic policy. With this special issue IBER aims to create a source of information and international forum in the field of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management. Some topics of interest for technical papers are listed bellow and do not exclude other relevant themes:   ·         Entrepreneurship, education and training ·         Innovation management ·         Marketing of innovations and marketing by entrepreneurs ·         Government policy on entrepreneurship, economic policies, education and training ·         Entrepreneurship among minority groups ·         Entrepreneurship in developing countries and restructuring economies ·         Corporate intrapreneurship and  innovation restructuring ·         Interfaces between operations management and entrepreneurship ·         Managing start-ups, new business incubators and networks, technology parks and enterprise support systems ·         Business angels, venture capital, grants and government funds to entrepreneurship and economic development ·         Licensing, franchising, cooperation and distribution alliances ·         International experiences on innovation and technopreneurship   All articles will be double-blind reviewed by management and entrepreneurship researchers and professionals. The deadline for submitting papers is September 20th (2010) and must conform to IBER requirements (http://iber.isg.pt and http://revistas.ulusofona.pt).
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It is a fact that there is an ongoing revolution in the field of mobile services. New strategic considerations on mobile-services have promoted a discussion around the realities of a new era of services and the infrastructures required by this change. Services provided have to be adapted to the users’ demands and needs, therefore it is necessary to understand the human-centred dimensions of mobile services, those which are beyond technology.

The objective of this issue is to lay the grounds for a discussion around the state-of-the-art, providing academics and practitioners with the opportunity of presenting their contributions and establishing future directions for the emerging and innovative applications in mobile services.

Some topics of interest for technical papers are listed bellow and do not exclude other relevant themes:

• Real-world projects relying on Mobile access
• Key applications to leverage the development/use of mobile web
• Analysis of the potential demand for data service / mobile web access
• Challenges to make the Mobile Web a useful resource (not just an usable one)
• Analysis of value added of the Mobile Web vs. a mobile phone (voice only) vs. personal computer
• M-Advertising: data concerning the adoption of the service, the value of ‘mobile’ to advertisers, personalisation and targeting, measurement and metrics, defining best practices, privacy issues, emerging trends, key features for a successful mobile campaign.
• M-Finance: money transfer, m-payments, m-Banking, security, regulation, definition of value chain.
• M-Government: measurement, politics, votes, security, public sector, education, taxes, census, E-government, information, participation, legislation, platform.
• Segmentation/Branding: grey market, segmentation tools, user generated content, social networking.
• Health: monitoring, diagnostics, reporting, emergency, treatment, care.