11th BAMDE International Conference on the Entrepreneurship in a Challenged World: The Role of Universities in the Development of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

The 11th BAMDE International Conference on the Entrepreneurship in a Challenged World: The Role of Universities in the Development of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems will take place on 11 – 14 September 2023 in Flamingo Grand Hotel and SPA, Albena, Bulgaria.

The Conference is organized jointly by the Bulgarian Association for Management Development and Entrepreneurship, Institute of Entrepreneurship of the University of the National and World Economy and Economic Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in partnership with the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB).

The Conference’s mission is to bring together professionals in the field, from research, teaching, practice and policy-making to exchange opinions, problems and good practice in entrepreneurship to respond to the challenges of our changing world.

The objectives of the conference are:

• To discuss recent trends and problems in the development of national and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems;
• To discuss and understand better the role of universities in the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems;
• To discuss the challenges for entrepreneurs as key business players today and tomorrow;
• To exchange research, training and consulting experiences (problems, findings and solutions) in different geographic, economic, and socio-cultural contexts;
• To discuss and understand better the role of intrapreneurship  in  large-scale enterprises and their role in entrepreneurial ecosystems;
• To strengthen and develop further established networks among professionals from Europe and other regions of the world.

A round table on SMEs’ competitive behaviour in a global business environment will be organised during the conference.

Like previous conferences the best papers will be published by renowned publishing houses (as a book, or papers in journals). 

Five selected high-quality papers will be published in a special issue of Entrepreneurship Education journal of Springer (http://www.springer.com/journal/41959).

The rest of the papers presented at the Conference will be published in Conference Proceedings book.

For more information, please, visit the Conference website or contact Assoc. Prof. Kostadin Kolarov, PhD - [email protected].