A RENT XX – Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, para muitos considerada a mais prestigiada conferência europeia de empreendedorismo tem já o seu programa disponível. Trata-se duma conferência organizada pelo European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management e pelo European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
A conferência recebeu a submissão de 255 artigos. No processo de selecção, de entre estes 255 artigos foram seleccionados 139 artigos para serem apresentados na conferência que terá lugar entre 23 e 24 de Novembro próximo. Finalmente, de entre estes 139 artigos, a "short list" com os artigos finalistas ao prémio Annual Best Paper Award of the Gate2Growth Academic Network on Entrepreneurship, Finance and Innovation, inclui os seguintes oito artigos, um dos quais tem o patrocínio de Empreender:
- Determinants of innovation in new firms: linking absorptive capacity to the performance of start-ups (Delmar Frédéric, Erik Wetter)
- Early formalization : a study of entrepreneurial organizing at early stages of high technology venturing (Sölvell Ingela)
- An assessment of the efficiency of government funding of business angel networks: a regional study (Collewaert Veroniek)
- Venture capital and the investments of new technology based firms (Bertoni Fabio, Massimo G. Colombo)
- When do university-based knowledge spillovers influence the growth of NTBFs? (Piva Evila, Massimo G. Colombo)
- Student and/or entrepreneur? Managing multiple identities among emerging university student entrepreneurs (Sørensen Suna, William B. Gartner)
- The role of inward foreign direct investment on domestic entrepreneurship (Barbosa Natalia, Vasco Eiriz)
- Financing and growth behavior of family firms: differences between first- and next-generation-managed firms (Molly Vincent, Eddy Laveren).
