EFIS-2022 is co-organized by the International School, Vietnam National University (VNU-IS) and Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global) will take place on 1-2 December 2022, in Hanoi, Vietnam. It aims at providing academics, doctoral students, and practitioners with a forum for presenting their research findings and discussing current and challenging issues in innovation, entrepreneurship and finance. The Conference is also an ideal occasion for Vietnamese scholars to exchange research experiences and develop research projects with their international colleagues.

The scientific and organizing committee welcomes submissions in all areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and finance. The main topics of the conference include, but not limited to: Corporate Digital Transformation, Innovation Growth Strategies, Innovation Management, Business Model and Innovation, Entrepreneurship/ Intrapreneurship and Innovation, Digital Innovation and Knowledge Management, Digital Human Resources, Financing of Digital Innovation, Electronic Markets and Trading Platform, FinTech and Alternative Finance, Crowdfunding, P2P Lending, Governance and Financing of High-Tech Firms, Crypto Assets, Digital Finance and Banking, Sustainability in Digital World.

Keynote speakers:

David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Director, Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, United States & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics.

David Audretsch is a Distinguished Professor and the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, where he also serves as Director of the Institute for Development Strategies. He is an Honorary Professor of Industrial Economics and Entrepreneurship at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germanyand a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

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. He is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal. He was awarded the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum(Entreprenörskapsforum). He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Augsburg in Germany and Jonköping University in Sweden. Audretsch was also awarded the Schumpeter Prize from the University of Wuppertal in Germany.

Jonathan A. Batten, Honorary Professor, University of Sydney Business School, Australia & Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Markets Review, and Journal of International Financial Markets and Institutions

Jonathan A. Batten is an Honorary Professor in the Discipline of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School. He also holds the CIMB-UUM Chair in Banking and Finance at University Utara Malaysia. Prior to this position he worked as a Professor in Finance at Monash University, Australia, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and Seoul National University, Korea. He is the managing editor of Elsevier’s highly ranked Emerging Markets Review, and Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, and co-editor of Finance Research Letters.

Jonathan’s research crosses several disciplines: in the business area he has published work on insider trading and market manipulation, bond pricing and corporate foreign exchange risk management in journals used by the Financial Times for ranking business schools (e.g. Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of International Business Studies). In addition, he has also published work in leading journals in applied mathematics on complexity in financial time series (e.g. Chaos and Physica A), on stock, gold and energy market integration (Energy Economics, Energy Policy and Resources Policy), and importantly in economic policy on financial market development and societal impacts of foreign direct investment (e.g. Applied Economics and the World Bank Research Observer). His current research is based on assessing the impact on financial markets and investor portfolios of the expected worldwide shift to renewable energy.

Péter Szilágyi, Associate Professor, Head of MS in Finance, and Head of FinTech Section, CEU InnovationsLab, Central European University, Hungary & Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Multinational Financial Management

Peter G. Szilagyi is Associate Professor, Head of MS in Finance, and Head of FinTech Section at the CEU InnovationsLab startup incubator.

Peter was Assistant Professor at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, in 2007-14 and was Director of the MPhil in Finance. He earned his PhD from Tilburg and held a research fellowship at Oxford Saïd Business School. He has been an external consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and before entering academia worked for the BBC World Service. He held one of the first research grants awarded by the SWIFT Institute.

Peter is Managing Editor of Elsevier's Journal of Multinational Financial Management, and Subject Editor of Emerging Markets Review and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money.