RENT Conference
Research on entrepreneurship and on small and medium-sized enterprises has to respond to a challenge of practice and seek answers to the most urgent problems, as well as follow the trend of the most important developments in the contemporary world economy.
Development of the theory of entrepreneurship and studies of small business behavior and economics should focus on satisfying these new needs of the European science and economy.
The RENT Conference is now firmly established as the premier entrepreneurship research conference in Europe and annually brings together approximately 250 leading academics in this field who present and debate cutting edge research in a wide variety of entrepreneurship related topics.
RENT Awards
- J.M. Veciana Best Paper Award for a junior researcher
- ECSB Best Doctoral Proposal Award for the best doctoral thesis proposal submitted to the RENT doctoral consortium
- ISBJ Best Paper Award
- ERD Best Paper Award in honour of Alistair Anderson
- Best Reviewer Nominees
RENT XXXIX
in Enschede, the Netherlands
on 19-21 November 2025
“Responsible Entrepreneurship & Technology: Combining the Local and the Global”
Abstract submission deadline:
15 May 2025
ECSB Pre-Conference Events
ECSB Doctoral Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
ECSB Post-Doctoral Paper Development Workshop (online)
David Smallbone Mid-Career Faculty Consortium (online)
Professional Development Workshops (PDWs)