2023: "From Creative to Circular Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Stairway to Heaven"
25-27 October 2023 at Universidade Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Keynote Speaker: Susan Marlow, Nottingham Business School
2022: "Entrepreneurship for a Responsible, Resilient and Sustainable Future"
26 - 28 October 2022, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Keynote Speaker: Ute Stephan, King's College London
2021: "Turbulence, Resilience and Transition"
A Virtual Community Conversation (Vol. I)
from August to October 2021: Sessions, Pitches, Presentations and the unCONVENTIONal Live Event October 14.
2020: "Entrepreneurship in Times of Technological, Economic and Societal Change"
A Virtual Community Conversation (Vol. I)
from August to October 2020: Sessions, Pitches, Presentations and the unCONVENTIONal Live Event October 16.
Keynote Speaker: Günter Faltin, Stiftung Entrepreneurship
2019: "Entrepreneurship for a better future"
16 - 18 October 2019, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Keynote Speaker: Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2018: "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the future – the future of entrepreneurship and innovation"26 – 28 September 2018, Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
Keynote Speaker: Toke Reichstein, Copenhagen Business School
2017: "Everyday Entrepreneurship- A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity"20-22 September, University of Siegen, Germany.
Keynote Speakers: Robert Blackburn, University of Cambridge, & Friederike Welter, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung
2016: "Change. The New Face of Entrepreneurship." 7-9 September, HTW Chur, Switzerland
Keynote Speaker: Peter Gloor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , US.
2015: "Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age – Towards a New Way of Venturing?February 25-27, Montpellier Business School
Keynote speaker: David Audretsch from Indiana University, US.
2014: "Europe and the Crisis – Country Perspectives on Entrepreneurship"March 12-14, HTW Chur University, Switzerland.
Keynote speaker: Simon Parker from Ivey Business School, Canada
Best paper award: Tonoyan V. & Bruton G.: The impact of corruption on firm innovativeness. A multi-level analysis.
2013: "Entrepreneurial Challenges in the 21st Century - Current Research and Future Avenues"
March 13-15, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy.
Keynote speaker: Roy Thurik from Erasmus University Rotterdam & Montpellier Business School
Best paper award: Hundt C. & Sternberg R. : Explaining new firm creation in Europe - A multi-level analysis based upon data of
individuals, regions and countries
2012: "Entrepreneurship and Innovation"
March 15-17, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Keynote speaker: Michael Dowling from the University of Regensburg (Reflections on 10 years of IECER).
Best paper award: Pereira D. & Leitao. J. (Does the academic spin-off condition play a role in patent valuation?).
2011: "Financing of New Ventures after the Crisis"February 16-18, University of Munich, Germany.
Keynote speakers: Ann-Kristin Achleitner from the Technical University of Munich and Gordon Murray from Exeter University
Best paper award: Bessler W. & Seim M.: Venture capital financing and exit strategies in Europe: Long-run performance and firm and deal characteristics.
2010: "Academic Entrepreneurship"
March 10-12, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Keynote speaker: Hans Georg Gemünden from the Technical University of Berlin.
Best paper award: Tommy C. & Rasmussen E. : Parallel path strategies and technology transfer within academic spin-offs.
2009: "Human Capital and Entrepreneurship"
March 4-6, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Keynote speaker: Maryann P. Feldman, University of North Carolina.
Best paper award: Timmermans B.: The effect of previous co-worker experience on firm survival.