This conference seeks to bring together innovative research related to these challenges, aiming to provide guidance to policy. In particular, we are interested in research studies (not yet published) that focus on one or more of the following topics: - Public and private investments in shaping...

The 2021 Conference Main Theme is “Inclusive Entrepreneurship”. Inclusive entrepreneurship aims to contribute to social inclusion to give all people an equal opportunity to start up and operate businesses. However, there are many socio-economic and structural barriers for individuals into...

The central theme of the Workshop is ‘Family Firms between local and global challenges’, but we welcome all research papers contributing at expanding the frontiers of family business research. For example, we welcome paper exploring the intersection between family business and Innovation,...

Since 1996, DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change. DRUID21 invites paper submissions on innovation, entrepreneurship and other aspects of structural, institutional and geographic change,...

The goal of this conference is to enhance academic and policy discussion on the effects of Covid on productivity, and to provide a forum for new policy-oriented research. Of great interest is the impact of the pandemic on productivity growth through within-firm dynamics, factors reallocation...

The focus for this year’s event is placed on the interaction between organisational change factors which are internal and external to the organisation, we actively encourage a wide range of contributions which directly address issues relating to organisational change and development. In the...

Quantitative, qualitative and conceptual papers are welcome for the following theme tracks: CONFERENCE THEME: Entrepreneurship in the digital era; SPECIAL ISSUE THEME: How to develop entrepreneurial skills? The role of education; - Opportunity generation and early business development; - Business...

Due to the current international circumstances the main conference is postponed to 2021. The Emerging Scholar Programme will be held online on September 9th 2020, in the morning. Emerging scholars are invited to submit a research proposal (including a literature review, research questions and...

Topics: - Competitiveness policies in small open economies - Structural transformation and distributional consequences - Industrial policies facing inequality and political populism - Transition to low-carbon economies from firm-level perspective - The interaction between monetary and...

The global health crisis makes us unable to hold the DRUID20 conference as planned June 15-17. Given the current uncertainty as to the duration of the crisis, we are not planning any other DRUID events in 2020.