27th Annual RENT conference 2013 - RENT XXVII - Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Competitiveness

The 27th RENT conference will explore the interaction between entrepreneurship, institutions and competitiveness. We will highlight how formal and informal institutions, evolving over time, impact entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurial behaviour and, ultimately, contribute to sectorial, national and regional competitiveness. In addition, we will explore the opposite effect i.e. how business, social, policy and academic entrepreneurs by way of novel ideas and persistence influence and change institutions, which in turn enhance competitiveness at different levels. We believe these issues are relevant not only to countries with less experience in the entrepreneurship policy, education and practice, but also to a vast majority of them across continents.