BEAGLE project was proudly featured at the International Scientific Conference on BUSINESS TRENDS 2024, hosted by the Faculty of Economics, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, on November 21–22, 2024.
About the conference
Faculty of Economics, University of West Bohemia, organised under the auspices of doc. Ing. Michaela Krechovská, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Economics on 21st – 22nd November 2024 International Scientific Conference on BUSINESS TRENDS 2024. The conference was held in the following sections:
- Trends in marketing, business and tourism
- Innovative and sustainable approaches in business and management
- Financial management, accounting and using of quantitative methods in business environment
- Sustainability in the public sector
- Entrepreneurship and cooperation with the private sector as part of the life of municipalities
- Applications of AI in organisational settings and in higher education
- Digitisation in project management
In relation to the sections above, especially section two, the conference presented an ongoing project “Project BEAGLE – BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY FOR VALUE CREATION”.
Strong Attendance and Engagement
The Faculty of Economics UWB successfully organised the ninth year of this international conference. As in previous years, the conference was met with great approval by the participants and generated a high level of interest in the discussion. The conference saw the attendance of over 100 experts, primarily economists, who engaged in discussions on contemporary trends in both the business and public sectors.
Keynote Topics
The keynote speakers provided insights on the current state of cyber security within corporate supply chains, exploring the underlying causes and potential business approaches. Additionally, they addressed sustainability indicators at the public sector level, with a particular focus on California. The other invited talks included the following: ‘Economic and social networks: applications to innovation and marketing’, ‘ESG reporting in corporate practice’ and ‘Ethics in business and entrepreneurship’.
BEAGLE Project Contribution
The discussions in the sessions were very diverse, but innovation was the main theme in many of the contributions. The researchers of the BEAGLE project presented a paper entitled: “DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION CONCEPT IN SELECTED EU COUNTRIES” that explored the concept of disruptive innovation and the factors that influence the adoption of disruptive innovations in selected countries. The paper indicates the growing interest in implementing disruptive innovations. Disruptive innovations are mostly created through collaboration with partners operating in the innovation ecosystem. In addition, networking is another significant driver of disruptive innovations that facilitates and accelerates the emergence of disruptive innovations. The results also showed that there was no significant difference in the approach to disruptive innovations between highly innovative Western countries and former Eastern European countries.
The contributions and expert discussions at the conference demonstrated the significant role of the innovations explored in the Beagle project in various sectors and economic disciplines, including management, business economics, marketing, finance, public sector economics, agricultural economics and more.
Project Visibility
BEAGLE project was presented during the conference, focusing on the project’s objectives, content and individual phases, and open call. The conference was attended by over 100 participants.
Conference Publication
The conference paper “Disruptive Innovation Concept in Selected EU Countries” of authors M. Krechovská, K. Mičudová, M. Špaček a E. Vacík was published in the Conference Proceedings Business Trends 2024.
