LEIRD is the LACCEI International Multiconference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development. LEIRD was conceived as a physical event to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico with the option for participants to join virtually through our new AGORA MEETINGS platform. At LEIRD 2024, we urge you to continue presenting your papers according to the published dates.

This conference accepts unpublished papers, including research and case studies, as well as work in progress presentations, written in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. Full papers undergo double-blind review, and if accepted and presented, are published with free open access in the proceedings of LACCEI International Multi-conferences. There is a limit of 3 papers per author (includes co-author) and 7 authors per paper. All accepted and presented Full Papers (FP) will be published in the proceedings with ISSN and ISBN with DOI and processed for evaluation by Scopus and other indexes. Work in Progress (WP) papers will undergo single-blind review and are published in the conference proceedings with ISSN and ISBN.

Presentations to the Student International Entrepreneurship and Innovation Projects Competition undergo a double-blind review. The top 10 finalists compete in a technical presentation before a jury that will select the top four projects to be awarded.

Important Dates:

• Call for Paper (CfP) – June 3^rd
• Registration opens – June 3^rd 
• Early bird Registration will be open – June 3^rd 
• Deadline for full papers and work in progress submissions – August 1^st. (Eastern Daylight Time – EDT)
  • III SIILMI
  • LEIRD 2024
• Deadline for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Student Competition (E&I24) submissions – August 30^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 10^th
• Deadline to submit video – October 10^th
• Publish paper presentation schedule – October 17^th
• III SIILMI: December 2 (Monday)
• LEIRD’24: December 3 & 4 (Tuesday & Wednesday)

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Tracks:

1. General in entrepreneurship and innovation:

• Design thinking-driven innovation
• Incubators, accelerators, and other support programs
• Intrapreneurship and business model innovation
• Social innovation and entrepreneurship
• Venture formation processes, funding, and strategies

2. Global and regional in entrepreneurship and innovation:

• Enabling regional initiatives in entrepreneurship and innovation
• Intellectual property and open innovation
• International innovation and entrepreneurship
• Open innovation systems
• Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

3. Financial in entrepreneurship and innovation:

• Circular economy innovation and frugal innovation
• Entrepreneurship and innovation to overcome the economic and financial crisis
• Market and financial impacts of entrepreneurship and innovation

4. Technological in entrepreneurship and innovation:

• Communication strategies and Social Networks in entrepreneurship and innovation
• Digital transformation and artificial intelligence
• Innovative technologies, cities, and regions

5. Educational in entrepreneurship and innovation:

• Entrepreneurship and innovation in education
• Strategies, policies, and management practices in R&D, innovation, and entrepreneurship
• University-Industry technology transfer and knowledge exchange

6. Tercer Simposio de Investigación e Innovación Latinoamericano “Mujeres en Ingeniería” – III SIILMI: Click here

• Igualdad de derechos, oportunidades y espacios para las mujeres en Latinoamérica y el Caribe en el ámbito académico
• Igualdad de derechos, oportunidades y espacios para las mujeres en Latinoamérica y el Caribe en el ámbito profesional
• Fomento de las vocaciones por la ingeniería en niñas y jóvenes, en Latinoamérica y el Caribe
• Todas las formas de discriminación y violencia a niñas, jóvenes y mujeres en el ámbito de las ingenierías y afines en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

7. Work in Progress (WP)

8. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Student Competition (E&I24).

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Click here to visit ConfTool, the LEIRD 2024 Submissions platform.

Organizing committee:

The LACCEI Standing International Committee on Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the organizer of this event with an ample backing from the Board of Directors of the Consortium. This endeavor is purposed to fulfill the aims of the Committee consisting of the development of strategies to promote entrepreneurship and innovation as well as contribute to the creation of opportunities for the exchange of experiences, good practices and research results in the field, between academicians, entrepreneurs, institutional leaders and scientists from different disciplines.

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Benefits for participants

The purpose of the conference is to provide a comfortable, safe, sustainable, and accessible way to gather academic faculty, researchers, policy makers, practitioners in different disciplines and entrepreneurs who are interested in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation around the world and to interact as a large information and research network to foster regional development.

We face this challenge with 22 years of experience organizing international events that combine different types of sessions and post-conference services designed to make the most of the processes of socializing knowledge online and in person.

Connect with a global network

We pride ourselves on the breadth and global diversity of participants in our network. LEIRD participants will be able to add their voice by submitting their articles. During the conference they will be able to receive the opinions of their colleagues from different latitudes.

All participants, being authors or simply participants, will be able to formulate questions and express their own opinions to keynote speakers, panelists and authors of papers in their areas of interest, as well as exchange views with colleagues using the diversity of opportunities and meeting rooms available.

Publishing opportunities

LEIRD multiconference accepts unpublished papers, including research and case studies, as well as work in progress presentations, written in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. Full papers undergo double-blind review, and if accepted and presented, are published with free open access in the Proceedings of LACCEI International Multi-conferences.

All accepted and presented papers will be published in the Proceedings with ISSN, ISBN and DOI and processed for evaluation by Scopus, Google Scholar, and other indexes. Work in Progress papers will undergo single-blind review and are published in the conference proceedings with ISSN and ISBN.

The best platform for a virtual experience

AGORA Meetings provides the platform that allows LEIRD to offer remote participants an experience similar to that of a face-to-face event. Through graphical immersion using a dynamic and accessible web interface, you have access to social interaction, synchronous communication services.

The level of usability of this platform is exceptional, allowing users to intuitively navigate the virtual spaces like those of a real convention center, select concurrent technical sessions, workshops, combine services by integrating information about sessions, agenda, abstracts, papers, speakers, authors, lists of participants, etc.

Contacts

• LEIRD 2024 General Information: leird@laccei.org
• Account creation or problems in Agora Meetings: registration@laccei.org
• Members or memberships:
  • info@laccei.org
  • https://laccei.org/participating-institutions/