The Annual ICSB World Conference is held in June of each year, and hosted jointly with one of the ICSB affiliates. Past conferences have been held in cities such as Vienna, Washington, D.C., Strasbourg, Toronto, Sydney, Stockholm, San Francisco, Singapore, Naples and Johannesburg. The conference draws 400 to 800 delegates from 40 to 50 countries.
ECSB has hosted the ICSB World Conference in 2007 (In Turku, Finland) and in 2003 (in Belfast, Northern Ireland).
The University of Cincinnati and the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) welcome you to attend the 55th Anniversary ICSB World Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio USA from June 24-27, 2010.
Under the theme of
Entrepreneurship: Bridging Global Boundaries the 2010 World Conference will bring together educators, researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world to share in the exchange of ideas and experiences related to the development of small, entrepreneurial, and family-owned businesses.
In 2009 the ICSB World Conference was held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in June 21-24. The conference was co-hosted by Korea Small Business Institute (KOSBI), the ICSB Affiliate for Korea.
The theme of the conference is
"The Dynamism of Small Business". A key aim of the conference was to discuss dynamism of small business in terms of knowledge, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship and globalization.
The 53rd ICSB World Conference was organised in Halifax, Canada in June 22-25, 2008. Again, the conference had many interesting topics, such as advancing entrepreneurship; types of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs; training and development of entrepreneurs; SME management and growth, and many more.
The 52nd ICSB World Conference took place in June 2007, in Turku, Finland. The conference was co-organised by ECSB. Around 400 papers were presented at the conference under several topics, such as enterprise education, franchising, incubators and science parks, management in SMEs and entrepreneurship policy. There were nearly 700 participants, of which around 400 from European countries.
