• Impact of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) on aggregate productivity dynamics
• Direct and indirect contributions of entrepreneurial firms to innovation
• Personality traits and motivation of entrepreneurs
• Human capital of founders and employees
• Entrepreneurial teams
• Socio-demographic aspects of entrepreneurship (e.g. ethnic entrepreneurship, migrant entrepreneurship and female entrepreneurship)
• Digital entrepreneurship
• Incubators, corporate and academic spin-offs
• Scale-ups, gazelles and unicorns
• Financing young firms: (corporate) venture capital, business angels, crowdfunding and banks
• Employment, wages and workplace quality in entrepreneurial firms
• Impact and efficiency of public entrepreneurship policies
• Entrepreneurship in aging societies

Submission Deadline: 8 April 2018

Interested researchers are invited to submit a paper (short papers/extended abstracts with a minimum of 4,000 words are also welcome) to entrepreneurship2018@zew.de.

Notifications of acceptance by 27 April 2018.

Registration Deadline: 31 May 2018

Online Registration for Attendants/Non-Presenters

The conference fee is €225, which covers the conference package, meals, refreshments, coffee breaks and the conference dinner. For participants presenting a paper, the conference fee is reduced to €195. A selected number of travel grants for junior researchers will be available upon request. Presenters will be asked to discuss another paper.