This conference welcomes unpublished papers, including research and case studies, as well as work-in-progress presentations from all research areas within the following topics of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Regional Development.

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Tracks:

1. Support Programs: Business model, financing, impact, and contribution to economic development. Cases of innovative entrepreneurship.

• Incubators, accelerators, and other support programs
• Venture formation processes, funding, and strategies
• Intrapreneurship and business model innovation
• Entrepreneurship and innovation to overcome economic and financial crisis
• Communication strategies and social networks in entrepreneurship and innovation
• International innovation and entrepreneurship
• Circular economy innovation and frugal innovation
• Social innovation and entrepreneurship

2. Policies and managerial practices to stimulate research and innovative entrepreneurship, regional development and innovative cities.

• Strategies, policies and management practices in R&D, innovation, and entrepreneurship
• Digital transformation
• Innovative technologies, cities, and regions
• Market and financial impacts of entrepreneurship and innovation
• Enabling regional initiatives in entrepreneurship and innovation 

3. Education and innovative entrepreneurship: Models and strategies.

• Entrepreneurship and innovation in education
• Design thinking driven innovation

4. Commercialization, intellectual property, open innovation and sustainable innovation.

• Intellectual property and open innovation
• University/Industry technology transfer and knowledge exchange
• Sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship

5. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Student Competition (E&I23).

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Important Dates:

• Call for Paper (CfP) – June 23^th 
• Registration opens – July 1^st 
• Early bird Registration will be open – July 1^st 
• Deadline for full papers and work in progress submissions – August 7^th. (Eastern Daylight Time – EDT)
• Deadline for full papers and work in progress submissions – August 21^st. (Eastern Daylight Time – EDT)
• Deadline for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Student Competition (E&I23) submissions – September 11^th 
• Notification of acceptance of papers – September 25^th 
• Early bird registration closes – October 2^nd
• Registration at full cost – October 3^th
• Deadline to pay all authors – October 10^th
• Submit final version of the accepted paper – October 13^th
• Deadline to submit video – October 13^th
• LEIRD’23 – December 4 – 6

LEIRD 2023 accepts papers written in English, Spanish, Portuguese or French: Fullpapers (6-10 pages), Work in progress (2-5 pages) with a limit of 7 authors per submission.