The European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to advance the understanding of entrepreneurship and to improve the competitiveness of SMEs in Europe. The ECSB is an affiliation to the ICSB (International Council for Small Business).
The main theme for the 26th Annual RENT conference is: "ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CREATION OF WEALTH FOR ECONOMIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE"
ECSB organises number of interesting pre-conference events:
ECSB Doctoral Seminar for doctoral students : submission deadline 15th June
ECSB Post-Doctoral Writing Workshop: application deadline 1st June
Case Study Competition & Workshop: submission deadline 1st September
Conference paper submission deadline is
15th May 2012. A selection of best papers will be considered for inclusion in the ECSB's RENT anthology
Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research and selected papers can be invited for submission to special issues published by top journals in the field.
The conference is hosted by EM Lyon in beautiful Lyon, France, 21-23 November 2012.
ECSB Members area includes several features which are only available for the members of ECSB. For example you can you use
ECSB Database to search researchers wordwide, edit
your profile and personal data. Also included are
News and Newsletters for members and
discussion forums to exchange your ideas.
Please see the material of the previous RENT XXV Conference in Bodø.
European Entrepreneurship Case Study Research Centre
Get to know European Entrepreneurship Case Study Research Centre at
http://www.eecsrc.eu/.
ECSB announces the activation of a new
wiki dedicated to entrepreneurship and small business scholars and practitioners. This is a first step to exploit the potential of internet enabled collaboration to foster interaction among ECSB members and build the world's richest online community on entrepreneurship and small business studies.
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