Apologies for the cross posting: We invite you to the workshop on Social Capital and Entrepreneurship at CSCW 2013 (ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work). The workshop will be held on Sunday 24/2/2012 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. There is a strong relationship between social capital and entrepreneurship. Yet we know little of how groups across cultures and socio-technical configurations interact and collaborate online to transform innovation into commercial and social ventures. This one day workshop will explore, through different perspectives, thechallenges for CSCW in supporting the development of social capital for entrepreneurship, highlighting the gaps and opportunities for designers. A key part of the agenda for this workshop is to form understandings of the formation of social capital and entrepreneurship activities in contrasting cultures and socio-technical configurations. We hope to foster dialogue between academics in different disciplines interested in interdisciplinary research in social capital, entrepreneurship and CSCW. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/socialcapitalentrepreneurship/ Workshop Application: *Position paper submissions should be PDF documents of 2 - 4 pages in the SIGCHI Papers format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-papers-word-template/vi... ) *All papers must be written and presented in English and will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. *Submissions will be managed through a content management system. Please submit your position paper in PDF describing one of the following: * your experience in this area, * your findings, * your views or interest relevant to the workshop themes, * methodologies you have used in research or practice that you feel might be relevant in this area, * some other appropriate question you might want to discuss at the workshop. All papers will be reviewed and 10-20 will be selected according to their potential contributions to the discussion and with the goal of creating a diverse group. Note: At least one author of accepted papers is required to register for the workshop. Participants who wish to attend the workshop will have to register for the main conference as wel. E-mail position papers to Jose.abdelnour-nocera@uwl.ac.uk Deadline for submissions is November, 29, 2012. Notification of acceptance is on December 11, 2012. Registration and venue information can be found at the CSCW 2013 conference website: http://cscw.acm.org/index.html -- Dr. José Abdelnour Nocera Reader in Sociotechnical Design Head of Sociotechnical Centre for Internationalisation and User Experience University of West London St Mary¹s Road, Ealing ­ London W5 5RF http://soc.uwl.ac.uk/~jabdelno