the J.M. Veciana Best Paper Award for a junior researcher 

Vivek Kumar Sundriyal for the paper “Good stock from the iron cage: mobility, entry size and returns to entrepreneurship in scientists & engineers”

Nominees: Florian Koehne, Vivek Kumar Sundriyal, Torgeir Aadland – Dag Håkon Haneberg

the ISBJ Best Paper Award challenging the conventional wisdom in Entrepreneurship

Ulla Hytti and Päivi Karhunen for the paper “It’s all about family! Male technology entrepreneurs constructing their identities between family and business”

Nominees: Ulla Hytti – Päivi Karhunen, Caren Crowley – Maura McAdam – Richard Harrison, Silva Costa – Joris Veldt – Arjan Frederiks

the ECSB Best Doctoral Proposal Award for the best doctoral thesis proposal submitted to the RENT doctoral consortium

Anna Müller for the paper “Self-presentation and external media representation of female role model entrepreneurs as part of entrepreneurial identity”

Runner ups: Johannes Kleinhempel, Emma O’Brien, Gundula Glowka, Catherine Brentnall

the ECSB Post-Doctoral Paper Development Workshop Award for an early career researcher whose paper has passed all the rounds of review.

Inga Haase for the paper “Open Innovation – Challenges of Implementing New Forms of Innovation in SMEs”

the Best Poster Award

Ernesto Knein, David Bending and Malte Brettel for the poster “The influence of oranizational and national culture on internal cooperation and competition”

Best Reviewer Nominees RENT 2018

 Renata Osowska – John Kitching – Pekka Stenholm