ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ATIMEnt)
(THE GLOBAL ACADEMY OF TECHNOPRENEURSHIP)
...Achieving sustainable development goals with entrepreneurial technology
...Achieving sustainable development goals with entrepreneurial technology
Focus on Career Development
ATIMEnt offers plenty of activities and products to help developing the careers of its members. You can get familiar with our offers by clicking on the items below.
ATIMEnt offers young scholars an exclusive Doctoral Workshop which has a long successful tradition. Top scholars in our field offer unique insights for doctoral students into how your work can be improved and progressed as well as an opportunity for bouncing ideas off experienced faculty. The ATIMEnt Doctoral Workshop is truly a meeting place for both new and experienced researchers from all over the world and an ideal place to start networking. We particularly encourage students in the early stages of their research to participate as a way of launching themselves into the international research community.
The held during the ACCENT each year features a panel of distinguished faculty and provides a unique setting to network and to discuss professional challenges, problems, and opportunities facing faculty advancing into their associate and early full Prof. years. Members who have at least 5 years of academic experience and are wondering about the next steps in their career or are at a crossroads in your career are particularly welcome.
ATIMEnt offers its members an opportunity to apply for the ATIMEnt Event Fund. The fund provides financial support to organise or host a seminar, workshop, colloquium, policy forum or other relevant ATIMEnt supported event and to enable the advancement of research through workshops or conferences, or visits by or to partner scholars.
The ATIMEnt Post-Doctoral Paper Development Workshop is a unique opportunity for early-career researchers to effectively advance their research projects. There are two parts. First, a face-to-face event that takes place on the ACESB pre-conference day. It starts with a roundtable discussion on the challenges in getting published, in building up a research portfolio and in combining teaching and research. Participants then break out in small groups where their paper is discussed by senior researchers and peers in the group. The second part is an on-line follow-up that has some additional rounds of review (with peers and seniors) aimed at helping to develop a working paper into a submission ready for referred, high quality journals.
The ATIMEnt Webinar Series aims to support our members’ professional development by giving them an opportunity to virtually engage with top scholars in various areas of entrepreneurship research. Topics chosen for the webinars are diverse to reflect the research interests in our membership base but also their different career stages. As part of the Webinar Series, 4-6 webinars are organised every year. Participation is free for all our members but registration is required.
The ATIMEnt Career Mentoring is aimed at early and mid-career researchers. In the ATIMEnt Career Mentoring Programme, we help researchers navigate their career challenges by having experienced researchers and Professors advise you on your personal career development for six months. A mentor supports you by listening to you, discussing your personal goals with you, providing encouragement, information and contacts. Mentoring can assist you in assessing your experiences and achievements and considering your future options and choices.
Each year a collection of best papers from the annual Conferences are published in the AFRIJESB. ATIMEnt also tries to strengthen the cooperation with internationally recognised journals and to offer attendants of ATIMEnt conferences opportunities to publish in special issues.
Our Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) are innovative and interactive, and are developed by our members to share knowledge and expertise and foster your practical, professional and intellectual skills. PDWs have a focused theme and target group as well as deliver a high level of learning and give you some clear ‘take-aways’.
There is Entrepreneurship Case Study Resource Centre (ECSRC) in which members have access to the full ECSRC collection of teaching cases with teaching notes also available on request for a large number of cases.
The ATIMEnt Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are fora for ATIMEnt members who share an interest in the same topic. They offer an exclusive opportunity to exchange research topics, projects and results with like-minded scholars contributing to that area. The focused community invites to intense collaboration and feedback.
ATIMEnt aims to offer useful services to its members looking for job vacancies, collaborators to start a new project or any academic experts in entrepreneurship & small business. Institutions or individual members interested in participating send job information and the ATIMEnt Secretariat disseminates announcements through its communication channels.
The ATIMEnt Research Blog disseminates and demonstrates the impact of our members’ research. The Blog provides an outlet for short, interesting, current, and thought-provoking content on research outputs and findings. The Blog is intended to inform, educate and enlighten readers with evidence of how current research in entrepreneurship and small business is having an impact. The Blog is a free publishing forum for all ATIMEnt members. If you are interested in publishing in the Blog, please send your content to : info@glacent.org. All content will be reviewed before acceptance.
ATIMEnt Career Mentoring is aimed at early and mid-career researchers. Academic careers are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic and international. Demands on academics for publishing, raising funding and providing high quality teaching are increasing, and academics need to adjust by carefully contemplating and planning their careers, activities and work-life balance.
In the ATIMEnt Career Mentoring Programme, we help researchers navigate their career challenges by having experienced researchers and Professors advise you on your personal career development for six months. A mentor supports you by listening to you, discussing your personal goals with you, providing encouragement, information and contacts. Mentoring can assist you with assessing your experiences and achievements and considering your future options and choices.
ATIMEnt Career Mentoring is aimed at early and mid-career researchers. Academic careers are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic and international. Demands on academics for publishing, raising funding and providing high quality teaching are increasing, and academics need to adjust by carefully contemplating and planning their careers, activities and work-life balance.
FOR MENTEES
Why should I participate? Mentoring can assist you with assessing your experiences and achievements and considering your future options and choices. The key goal of mentoring is to support, guide and influence the professional development and direction of the mentee. Mentors are experienced people who go out of their way to assist you in clarifying your vision and personal goals.
How does ATIMEnt Career Mentoring work? Based on your expectations and interests, ATIMEnt will assign a mentor to you. The programme officially starts on 1 January, for a duration of six months. It is your responsibility, as a mentee, to initiate and maintain the mentoring assignment. That means that you and your mentor will agree on individual goals for the mentoring process as well as the frequency of (virtual, phone or face-to-face) meetings. Both mentees and mentors participate on a voluntary basis in this programme. ATIMEnt will organise a kick-off meeting for both mentors and mentees at its annual conference.
FOR MENTORS
Why should I become a mentor? You will receive personal satisfaction from contributing to the development of the mentee, and also be able to share your own experiences and knowledge. Additionally, you have a possibility to learn from your mentee and acquire new perspectives.
What are my responsibilities? You will be assigned a mentee for six months. You will agree with your mentee on the frequency of meetings which can take place face-to-face or in a virtual environment. Your responsibility is to listen to mentee issues, problems and challenges, be open to offer advice and share your successes and failures, your own solutions to your challenges, but let them make their own decisions. After the assignment, ATIMEnt will ask for some feedback, so that we can learn from your mentoring experiences.
Do you have a job vacancy at your institution or organisation and are looking for an academic or entrepreneurship & small business expert? Are you starting a new project and are looking for collaborators to enroll? Send us your job announcements and gain visibility in the large and most qualified global community of entrepreneurship experts in the ATIMEnt network!
ATIMEnt aims to offer useful services to its members; therefore, institutions/individual members interested in participating should send job information to our secretariat : Info@glacent.org , with no fee charged. The information should include a brief description of the positions including name of the Institution, website, department, position, application deadline, date of posting and email for further information, along with any key information relevant to the application.
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