The theme of the Conference for ECIE 2014 is "Societal-driven innovation and entrepreneurship". At this conference we would like to underline an important European innovation and entrepreneurship challenge of enhancing the development of the social economy sector.

Both innovation and entrepreneurship are generally under-researched and the advisory group for the conference invites submissions of both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing...