[Air-L] CALL FOR CASEBOOK CHAPTERS

[Hakikur Rahman]

(The second call for a casebook, which is the
second book on Open Innovation and SMEs to be
edited by the undersigned. However, if you have a
prospective manuscript on theoretical aspects,
which the first book covers, we have space for a few chapters.)

CALL FOR CASEBOOK CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010
SMEs and Open Innovation: Global Cases and Initiatives
A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr.
Isabel Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal.

To be published by IGI Global:
<http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=844>http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=844

Introduction
Recent years have seen a paradigm shift in
operational and management aspects of successful
entrepreneurship and value addition within an
enterprise. They have been shifted from simple
introduction of new ideas and product development
to collaborative nature of innovation, in terms
of products, processes and services. Innovation
has been transformed into open innovation rather
than closed innovation, which seems more
traditional. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
play a critical role in this transformation of
innovation strategies for business promotion,
value gain and economic empowerment of a country.
However, little is known on how open innovation
is implemented in SMEs and what are the challenges and benefits associated.

Overall Objective of the Book
By incorporating academic, entrepreneurial,
institutional, research, and empirical cases,
this book will bring together knowledge on how
SMEs can apply open innovation strategies to SME
development, and empowering these enterprises to
act as a catalyst for the economic empowerment of
a country (developed, developing, transitional
and under-developed). This book will ascertain
diverse aspects of policy issues, economic
issues, cultural issues, including numerous
opportunities and challenges surrounding open
innovation strategies; study relevant risks and
risk management; analyze SMEs evolution pattern
on adopting open innovation strategies through
available measurable criteria; provide
suggestions or recommendations along these
contexts rehearsing possible operational
scenarios; and assist practitioners to gain
knowledge in designing action plans to empower
SMEs in reaching out the grass roots communities
utilizing open innovation strategies.

Target Audience
The target group dealing with SMEs development
through open innovation strategies may
accommodate the entire community of a country,
ranging from government or policy initiators;
entrepreneurs and enterprises; researchers,
practitioners and academics; users and
intermediaries. Hence, the potential audience of
this book will consist of all these stakeholders
of an economy. Furthermore, on regional and
global scenarios, this book will target
development partners, agencies and their mediators.

Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cases on open innovation management,
- Open innovation models and processes,
- Technology supported cases on open innovation,
- Co-creation of sustained platforms for SMEs,
- Studying, analyzing or evaluating success cases,
- Innovation in marketing and communication,
- Application of strategies in entrepreneurial ventures and IPR
- Operation, legal interpretation and legislation aspects
- Socio-economic impact and implications of open innovation in SMEs,
- Knowledge creation and collaboration among various actors, and
- Cases illustrating risks and crisis management.

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit on or before July 15, 2010, a 2-3 page
proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors
of accepted proposals will be notified by July
30, 2010 about the status of their proposals and
sent case guidelines. Full cases are expected to
be submitted by September 30, 2010. All submitted
cases will be reviewed on a double-blind review
basis. Contributors may also be requested to
serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI
Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of
the “Information Science Reference” (formerly
Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information
Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing”
imprints. For additional information regarding
the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Important Dates:
July 15, 2010:Proposal Submission Deadline
July 30, 2010:Notification of Acceptance
September 30, 2010:Full Chapter Submission
October 30, 2010:Review Result Returned
November 30, 2010:Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members:
Derya Altunbas, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Ángela-Jo Medina, Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, USA
D.C. Misra, eGov Researcher and Consultant, India
Ken Stevens, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Kam Hou Vat, University of Macau, Macau

Hakikur Rahman and Isabel Ramos
Editors
Casebook- "SMEs and Open Innovation: Global Cases and Initiatives"

Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Prof. Hakikur Rahman
University of Minho
DSI, Azurem
4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 510 319 • FAX: +351 253 510 300 • GSM: +351 960193872
e-mail: <mailto:hakik%40dsi.uminho.pt>hakik at dsi.uminho.pt