This conference welcomes unpublished papers, including research and case studies, as well as work-in-progress presentations from all research areas within the following topics of Entrepreneurship,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.
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
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- 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&I25).
Important Dates:
- Open Entrepreneurship and Innovation Student Competition (E&I25) – May 5th
- Call for Paper (CfP) – May 13th
- Registration opens – May 20th
- Early bird Registration will be open – May 20th
- Deadline for Student Competition – 1st Phase – July 15th. (Eastern Daylight Time – EDT)
- Deadline for full papers and work in progress submissions – July 15th. (Eastern Daylight Time – EDT)
- IV SIILMI
- LEIRD 2025
- Notification of acceptance of papers – September 4th
- Early bird registration closes – September 18th
- Registration at full cost – September 19th
- Submit final version of the accepted paper – September 25th
- Deadline to submit video – September 25th
- Deadline to pay all authors – October 1st
- Publish paper presentation schedule – October 1st
- LEIRD’25: December 1 & 2 (Monday & Tuesday)
- IV SIILMI: December 3 (Wednesday)
LEIRD 2025 accepts papers written in English, Spanish, Portuguese or French: Full Papers (6-10 pages), Work in progress (2-5 pages) with a limit of 3 papers per author (includes co-author, any affiliation) and 7 authors per paper. FPs must be indexed by Scopus in March.