“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 … the mission of IECER is to advance interdisciplinary entrepreneurship research in Europe.”
October 2021 IECER
Theme: Turbulence, Resilience, and Transition
- Academic Entrepreneurship
- Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial and Alternative Finance
- Entrepreneurial, Innovative, and Sustainable Ecosystems
- Entrepreneurial Dimension and Cross-sectoral Considerations of the Wine Industry
- Entrepreneurial Wellbeing
- Open Innovation & Startups-incumbents Cooperations
- Entrepreneurship and Resilience
- Technopreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Behavior in Entrepreneurial Teams & Families, and Family Firms
Given its mandate, the Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research has, in the past, explored topics at the intersection of entrepreneurship and other academic disciplines. Examples include:
- Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age – Towards a New Way of Venturing?
- Everyday Entrepreneurship- A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity
IECER has been organized annually, at locations across Europe, for nearly two decades. The best IECER papers and presentations are published in a special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business. After completing five years in 2003, the organizers took stock of the progress and published their findings in a research paper. They noted that IECER was unique in “its ‘openness’ as an interdisciplinary research discussion forum, its deliberately small size (emphasising quality and interaction) and its focus on environment-related issues”.