On Thursday, 22nd February 2024, the ‘Learning to fly: Entrepreneurship Research as a Living Process of Inquiry’ workshop, hosted by the The University of Liverpool Management School’s Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship took place. This innovative event was supported by the European Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) event fund, and the British Academy of Management (BAM) Research Methods and Entrepreneurship Special Interest Groups Scholars from disciplines including education, sociology, organisational behaviour and anthropology shared ins ..read more

On the 18th of December 2023, De Montfort University hosted a pivotal research dissemination event facilitated by Leicester Castle Business School researchers. This gathering brought together founders and directors of social enterprises, fostering a rich exchange of insights and strategies in response to the cost-of-living crisis. The event was divided into two phases: The first phase revealed findings from the initial stage of research into social enterprises and their role in addressing the cost-of-living crisis. In the second phase, founders and directors participated in a focus group disc ..read more

With the generous help of the ECSB, the workshop “Ethnographic Methods for Entrepreneurship and Organization Research” took place on October 23rd -24th 2023. The workshop was given by Prof. Boukje Cnossen (Leuphana University) and Prof. Ari Kuismin (University of Jyväskylä) and organized and initiated by Lena Rieck (TU Dresden) and Alexa Böckel (Leuphana University Lüneburg). In the central building at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg campus, more than 25 junior researchers from all over Europe met to learn more about ethnographic methods. Ethnography is a specific approach to conducting q ..read more

The pedagogical and didactical aspects of teaching in entrepreneurship education prevail as a major challenge to the field – both in theory and practical application. A pedagogic device of this progression is the research and practice on teaching philosophies and how they may help educators at higher education institutions to develop as entrepreneurship educators. Birgitte Wraae (UCL University College Lillebælt) and Michael Breum Ramsgaard (VIA University College) As a pre-event for the 2023 edition of the 3E ECSB Entrepreneurship Education Conference, 35 scholars and practitioners gathered t ..read more

The Granada International Doctoral Summer School in Entrepreneurship Research (GIDSSER) took place in Granada (Spain), on June 14-17, 2022. The summer school was addressed to PhD students and early career researchers, with the aim to provide them with an opportunity to expand their knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon, by learning and receiving feedback for their projects from renowned scholars in the field of entrepreneurship. The summer school was organised by a group of professors and researchers of the Department of Business Administration I of the Unive ..read more

The Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology organized two events devoted to entrepreneurship. On April 20, 2022, the 4th Congress of the Departments of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and on April 21-22, the 9th international ENTIME Conference – Entrepreneurship in Modern Economy. The Congress gathered 40 people from various Polish universities. The guests shared their didactic experiences in the field of entrepreneurial education at the university level, assisted by prof. Alain Fayolle – undisputed authority on this topic. Both the speeches of the panelists ..read more

On April 25th-26th, 2022, the 5th Paper Development Seminar (5PDS) on Entrepreneurial Process Research was held at the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences (FCEyE) of the University of Seville (US). This 2022 edition brought together some of the most prestigious researchers and editors of international scientific journals in the field of entrepreneurship. Specifically, we were accompanied by: Robert Blackburn, Professor at the University of Liverpool, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Small Business Journal. Marco van Gelderen, from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and editorial ..read more

Two weeks ago (February 22-24, 2022), the University of Groningen Centre for Entrepreneurship hosted the ECSB co-branded event “Conducting Experiments in Entrepreneurship Research Workshop.” In this workshop for young scholars, we focused on the use of experimental designs to study entrepreneurship. We received submissions on a wide variety of theoretical topics, and all papers used an experimental design to test their hypotheses. This was already the third edition, and the second time we hosted it fully online! On the first day of the workshop, we started with a welcoming session, in which th ..read more

The co-branded event between ECSB and UCLM (University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain, specifically at UCLM we involved the UCLM-JCCM Chair on Circular Economy – this Chair has been fostered by JCCM which is the regional government of Castilla La Mancha) was titled “Conducting Research on Eco-innovation and Circular Economy in SMEs” and took place in Cuenca (SPAIN) during 9th and 10th of December 2021 in a hybrid format (some attendants were in person and others online through Teams). The organizers of the event within UCLM were Francisco Sáez Martínez (Professor of Management and Co-Chair of th ..read more

Today, we are launching the call for papers for the third edition of the ECSB co-branded event “Conducting Experiments in Entrepreneurship Research Workshop” organized by the University of Groningen Centre for Entrepreneurship, The Netherlands. In this workshop for young scholars, we focus on the use of experimental designs to study entrepreneurship. In this blogpost we would like to share our experiences during the previous editions of this workshop and highlight why we think it is important to create such a community of scholars. During last year’s edition, we received submissions on a wide ..read more