Program

Here the overview of the two-days conference. For details about the sessions, see the attached brochure.

Brochure

Program

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27 April 2023

Morning session

9:30 - 10:00

Registration
10:00 - 10:10

Institutional greetings

Angelo Paletta (Director, Department of Management, University of Bologna)
Cristina de Maria (Rector’s Delegate for Equity Diversity and Inclusion, University of Bologna)
10:10 - 10:25

Introducing the conference and the project MIG.EN.CUBE: Daniela Bolzani (Associate Professor, Department of Management, University of Bologna, principal investigator project MIG.EN.CUBE)
10:25 - 10:40

Reflections about local public policies, international mobility and entrepreneurship

Rosa Grimaldi (Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Innovation, and International attraction, Department of Management, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna)
Gian Luca Baldoni (Responsible for the Internationalization Unit, Emilia-Romagna Region)
10:40 - 10:55

Keynote speaker: David Halabisky (project coordinator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities)
10.55 - 11.20

Keynote speaker: Monder Ram (Full Professor, Aston Business School, and Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)
11:20 - 12.30

Panel discussion:

Shawgi Ahmed (Director or Public Leadership, PLACE Network)
Chiara Davalli (Senior Project Leader, European Business Innovation Centre Network)
Patrick Landi (Partner Venture Capital OPES Italia Sicaf)
Silsila Mahboub (Representative of European Coalition of Migrants and Refugees – EU-COMAR)
Vira Mistry (Entrepreneur, Development practitioner and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion specialist).
Giuseppe Torluccio (Vice President, Grameen Foundation Italia, and Full Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions, University of Bologna)

Moderator:
Marina Sarli (EU Programs Lead at Impact Hub Network).
12.30 - 13:00

Q&A session

Light Lunch

13:00-14:00

Afternoon session

14:00 - 16.00

Parallel working groups: debating the issues and constructing new actions

Working groups will be organized to deal with relevant topics in the domain of migrant entrepreneurship, including:
1) Nurturing refugee entrepreneurship between liabilities of refuge and assets of mixed embeddedness (co-organized by LEMEX - Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Universität Bremen, and Fondazione Generali – The Human Safety Net).
2) Inclusive entrepreneurial support: theory and practice (co-organized by Impact Hub Amsterdam, ISG International Business School, PLACE Network)
3) Migration as an opportunity for international entrepreneurship (co-organized by International Organization for Migration)
4) Building thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems: Financial and non-financial services (co-organized by Department of Management, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, and Microfinanza s.r.l.)
16:00 - 16:30

Plenary session: sharing experiences and propositions for actions based from the four working groups
16:30 - 17:00

Keynote speaker: Benson Honig (Full Professor, De Groote School of Business, McMaster University, and founder of Reframery)

Social activities

20:30

Social dinner (invited participants only)

A social dinner is organized for invited and guest speakers

28 April 2023

Paper discussions and presentations

9:00 - 10:35

Academic Papers Idea Development and Advanced Presentations.

Parallel sessions:
- Refugee Entrepreneurship;
- Micro-Macro Relationships;
- Policies and Supports.
10:35 - 11:00

Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30

Academic Papers Idea Development and Advanced Presentations.

Parallel sessions:
- Refugee Entrepreneurship;
- Transnationalism and Return;
- Policies and Supports.
12:30 - 13:00

Closing plenary session: Harvesting and harnessing academic research around policy and practice developments.
13:00 - 14:00

Light lunch