A scientific forum becomes the best venue for doctoral students to disseminate their research results and to get suggestions and reviews from international academics, thus improving the quality of their publications and building collaboration networks. The Doctoral Program in Economics (PDIE), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), organizes the International Colloquium on Business and Economics (ICBE) as an annual event.

At this year’s ICBE, the study program invited 4 (four) speakers from three universities, namely Universiti Malaya, UNS, and Universitas Prima Graha. The four keynote speakers are Dr. Farzana Parveen Tajudeen and Prof. Dr. Noor Ismawati Binti Jaafar, from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Prof. Doddy Setiawan, Ph.D., from Universitas Sebelas Maret, and Prof. Dr. Endang Dwi Amperawati, MM., from Universitas Prima Graha.

Taking on the theme of Inclusive Innovation: “Co-creating digital entrepreneurship with the disabled community and its ecosystem-insight from Indonesia,” ICBE 2024 is organized in collaboration with 6 (six) publication outlets, three of which are Scopus-indexed reputable international journals.

“PDIE FEB UNS has launched a roadmap for an international reputation acceleration program, including increasing research outputs achieved by doctoral students. We hope that this forum can be useful for all of you and contribute to the development of the PDIE program in the future,” said Prof. Rahmawati in her remarks marking the opening of the event.

Regarding innovation, the first keynote speaker, Dr. Farzana Parveen, delivered material on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is currently being implemented in various fields, including business and education. Furthermore, related to inclusive innovation, AI plays a role in increasing accessibility for disability community and providing a more personalized learning interaction experience.

Prof. Dr. Noor Ismawati Jaafar in her presentation as the second keynote speaker highlighted the role of digital entrepreneurship in the scope of inclusive innovation, through material entitled ‘Promoting Digital Entrepreneurship with Inclusive Innovation for a Sustainable Society,’ followed by speech from Prof. Dr. Endang Dwi Amperawati entitled Co-creation, Digital Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Its Role in Disabilities Community.

The last speaker, Prof. Doddy Setiawan, Ph.D., delivered a material entitled ‘The Role of Accounting in Climate Change Mitigation,’ which focuses on the role of the accounting sector in handling climate change. Further, Prof. Doddy also discussed two of the most recent publications carried out by FEB UNS faculty members related to climate reporting by companies in Indonesia.

The annual event, which was conducted seamlessly for two days on Thursday-Friday, 27-28 June 2024, was attended by representatives from the selected 64 articles, where they were given the opportunity to disseminate and discuss their research in the parallel session.

ICBE 2024 also awarded the Best Paper Award to three participants with the best article, they are Lilik Nurcholidah with an article entitled “Investigating The Impact of Work Family Conflict, Job Stress On Innovative Work Behavior With Job Satisfaction As a Mediator On University Women Teacher In Indonesia” as the 1st Best Paper. Meanwhile, Lukman Hakim with an article entitled “Disability and Poverty: Study In Central Java Indonesia At Village Level,” and Afif Yoga Perdana with an article entitled “Research Trends And Networks In Sustainability Reporting: A Bibliometric Approach” were awarded the 2nd Best Paper Award and the 3rd Best Paper Award, respectively.