The RENT XXII took place in Covilhã, Portugal, on November 20-21 and was hosted by University of Beira Interior. The main theme for the RENT XXII was "Entrepreneurship as an Engine for Regional Development". Read more about the conference on ECSB website .

Again, a successful Doctoral Workshop was organised in conjunction with the RENT Conference. There were 17 participants in the workshop and it was chaired by professors Friederike Welter (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) and Poul Rind Christensen (Aarhus Business School, Denmark).

ECSB thanks all participants and the organisers for an excellent conference!

NOTICE TO ALL NEWLY JOINED MEMBERS! ECSB Secretariat will receive the RENT XXII participation data soon and will process it after the holidays. After that we will contact all our new members and send you your username and password for the Members area at http://www.ecsb.org/. We apologise for the delay and hope that you understand the situation. The next issue of JSBM will be sent to all members in January.

Next year, the RENT Conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary. For further information, visit the official conference website.

The Launch of Inter-RENT Publication

The 5th Inter-RENT Online Publication “TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WAY ENTREPRENEURS START AND RUN THEIR BUSINESSES” was officially launched at the RENT XXII Conference, and will be up on the ECSB site on shortly. The publication was put together and edited by Luca Iandoli.

There are four papers included in the book, which are: 

The next Inter-RENT will be chaired by Tõnis Mets.

ECSB Case Study Competition

The results of the 3rd ECSB Case Studies Competition were announced at the RENT XXII Conference. The competition was open exclusively to members of ECSB and ICSB, and it was sponsored by the Research Strategy Unit (Faculty of Business) at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).

The winners of the Case Study Competition are:

The results of the ECSB Board Member Election were announced at the RENT XXII Conference in Covilhã. There was one vacancy in the ECSB Board for a next three year term (1.7.2009-30.6.2012).

João Leitão (Portugal) was elected into the ECSB Board. His term of office will start in the beginning of July 2009. Congratulations!

Professor Roy Thurik was announced as the third Fellow of ECSB. See his website at: http://www.thurik.com/. The other two ECSB Fellows are professor José Veciana and professor Zoltán Román. See more about ECSB Fellows at the ECSB website .

 

With the introduction of a new website, ECSB is taking a hands-on approach to the latest in information technology as we continue to improve communication among our membership. The new website offers the latest documents related to events, conferences and publications, as well as the new ECSB Wiki. The network of ECSB's members covers nearly 350 members from over 30 countries, so the new website will aim to promote active involvement in ECSB throughout Europe.

New Feature on ECSB Website: ECSB Wiki!

ECSB announces the activation of a new Wiki dedicated to entrepreneurship and small business scholars and practitioners. This is a first step to exploit the potential of internet enabled collaboration to foster interaction among ECSB members and build the world richest on-line community on entrepreneurship and small business studies. The wiki is accessible on at: http://www.icsb.org/wiki

A wiki appears like a web site, but the difference is that it is made entirely by its users. Anyone can edit and re-edit almost anything in a peer-to-peer, unsupervised, open-source fashion. So you can add or improve definitions in the encyclopedia, start new collaborative activities, add links, promote events and also create new pages. Also upon registration you will have a personal page you can use as your personal blog. The wiki is empty now. It will be contents rich and useful only to the extent members will use it in an active way. The wiki is easy to use also for people who are not confident with this kind of tool. It takes a few minutes to learn the basics through the help page.

We are also looking for a group of volunteer who are willing to be community moderators. Moderators will have more rights than registered users, like the possibility to cancel a page. Their task will be to help with content management and supervision. If you are interested send an email to Luca Iandoli (luca.iandoli@unina.it).

Read more about the Wiki.

 

THIS IS A NEW, UPGRADED VERSION OF ECSB NEWSLETTER. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL ENJOY ITS CONTENT FOUR TIMES A YEAR.

Are you the organizer or RENT Conference in 2010 or 2011?

EIASM and ECSB are looking for candidate-organisers for the RENT "Research in Entrepreneurship" conferences in 2010 and 2011.

The bid should include information regarding the applicant's organisation and the proposed workshop location as well as the key person involved in the organisation of the conference. Also a preliminary conference theme and schedule should be included in the bid.

The bids should be addressed to michelante@eiasm.be before March 1st, 2009.

ICSB 2009, the 54th World Conference
The ICSB 2009 World Conference will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in June 21-24, 2009. The conference is co-hosted by Korea Small Business Institute (KOSBI), the ICSB Affiliate for Korea. The theme of the conference is "The Dynamism of Small Business".
Read more about the conference.

ICSB News
See latest news.
ICSB Bulletin, November 2008.

ECSB WISHES ALL ITS MEMBERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

 

 

 

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