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IECER 2020 - A Virtual Community Conversation
Dear IECER friends,
dear researchers
Due to the current situation regarding Covid-19 and the unpredictability for what the second half of the year will bring, the IECER board has decided that the conference will not take place physically in Portugal in October 2020. However, we would like to pursue our common goal with you, the research community, and work together on the development of papers.
IECER 2020 - not a virtual conference, but a virtual community conversation
The IECER 2020 will not be a virtual conference that takes place at a set date in October. Instead, we will use the opportunities of digital technologies to work together – independent from time and space - to foster a virtual community conversation surrounding Entrepreneurship in Times of Technological, Economic and Societal Change. That way, we hope to encourage a lively discussion and exchange of ideas by using digital technologies as best as possible for our purposes and in smaller groups than usual.
How will that look like?
- You submit your full paper or your research-in-progress paper in your chosen track on the IECER webpage –
deadline extended to 15 July, 2020
- The acceptance notification will be sent out by the track chairs by 01 August, 2020
- After receiving the acceptance notification, you register on the IECER webpage and check in onto the peer-to-peer
evaluation platform by 15 August, 2020
- Guided review process: The track chairs will assign and distribute papers to the participants of the track.
All authors are part of the reviewer team and will give feedback and/or answer specific questions relating to the
respective paper according to predefined review-guidelines. Each paper will be reviewed by two fellow authors and
the track chair by 15 September, 2020.
- During mid-September and mid-October virtual conversations within the tracks will take place: authors are requested
to prepare a short pitch of their paper
- IECER 2020: the “unCONVENTIONal" live event: On Thursday, 15 October, 2020 we will come together and conclude the
deadline extended to 15 July, 2020
- The acceptance notification will be sent out by the track chairs by 01 August, 2020
- After receiving the acceptance notification, you register on the IECER webpage and check in onto the peer-to-peer
evaluation platform by 15 August, 2020
- Guided review process: The track chairs will assign and distribute papers to the participants of the track.
All authors are part of the reviewer team and will give feedback and/or answer specific questions relating to the
respective paper according to predefined review-guidelines. Each paper will be reviewed by two fellow authors and
the track chair by 15 September, 2020.
- During mid-September and mid-October virtual conversations within the tracks will take place: authors are requested
to prepare a short pitch of their paper
- IECER 2020: the “unCONVENTIONal" live event: On Thursday, 15 October, 2020 we will come together and conclude the
experiment with a virtual live event, and prizes for the best paper, best pitch and best review will be awarded
Please share in your network!
We are looking forward to receiving many submissions and starting this new journey with you!
PS: The next "real" IECER conference will take place in 2021 at the University da Beira Interior in Covilhã/Fundão, Portugal. The specific date will be communicated soon.
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ABOUT THE IECER CONFERENCE
The Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research IECER is an annual international conference on entrepreneurship topics attracting scholars and delegates from academia, business and government officials from around the world. Founded in 2003 by Jürgen Schmude (University of Munich) and Michael Dowling (University of Regensburg), the mission of IECER is to advance interdisciplinary entrepreneurship research in Europe. In ten years, Michael Dowling and Jürgen Schmude have established the conference as one of the leading conferences on interdisciplinary entrepreneurship research in Europe, providing researchers from a variety of disciplines the opportunity to discuss their latest research advancements. Conceived as a high quality forum of entrepreneurship debate, the conference is held every year at different locations across Europe (Amsterdam, Brescia, Chur, Innsbruck, Montpellier, Munich, Lisbon, Siegen, Utrecht) in the past years. After the 10th anniversary of the IECER, the academic coordination was handed over to Frank Lasch (Montpellier Business School) and Kerstin Wagner (FH Graubünden). The IECER today has a Conference Board, consisting of a group of Entrepreneurship professors around Europe.
