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Winning papers are in bold.
Best ISBE 2017 Conference Paper
Spatial Patterns of Entrepreneurship in the UK: Opportunity, Resources and Spill-over Effects
Andrew Henley
Best Research & Knowledge Exchange Paper
Supporting Enterprise Educators: A Decade of Best Practice
Nicolette Michels | Richard Beresford | Kate Beresford
President’s Award for Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher
Understanding the role of relational competency in copreneurial business through a gender perspective
Angela Carradus
Business Creation
Career Paths of Serial Founder Entrepreneurs: Towards a distinct theory of Serial Entrepreneurship?
Stephen O’Regan
Exploring entrepreneurial well-being during the venture creation process: The start-up community’s voice
Shivani Mehta | Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd | Alec Morton
Founders and their brands
Hanna Astner, Johan Gaddefors
Business Support
An Investigation on the evolution of the Entrepreneurship Policy Agenda in the EU: Relevant milestones, key areas and the way forward
Alberto Arenal Cabello, Cristina Armuña González, Sergio Ramos Villaverde, Ana Moreno Romero, Claudio Feijoo
Creative Entrepreneurship
Facing Uncertainty: An entrepreneurial view of the future?
Simon Bridge
Shaping the selection practices of Edinburgh’s creative entrepreneurial networks
Marta Bernal, Sarah Cooper
The Creative Business: Development Practice in the Arts-based Creative Industries
Jacob Salder
Enterprise Education
Entrepreneurship Education as Human Capital: Implications for Youth Self-employment and Conflict Mitigation
Paschal Anosike
Longitudinal impacts of Entrepreneurship Education: a quantitative investigation
Paul Jones | David Pickernell | Rebecca Fisher | Vera Ndrecaj
Supporting Enterprise Educators: A Decade of Best Practice
Nicolette Michels | Richard Beresford | Kate Beresford
Entrepreneurial Finance
A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Business Angels Networks in Chile and Colombia: An Institutional Approach
Gianni RomanÌ | Miguel Atienza | Izaias Martins
Do Business Accelerators invest in ‘lemons’? A comparison of the founders’ characteristics of Business Accelerator and Business Angels backed companies
Yannis Pierrakis
Transcending Traditional Funding Borders- A Systematic Multidisciplinary Review of Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs
Emer Gallagher | Andrew Kincaid | Elaine Ramsey | Sharon Loane
Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
Developing cognitive versatility: Thinking it through
Marian Evans
Rethinking the Firm and its Environment: A Problem Solving Approach
Colin Jones | Gimme Walter
The Impact of Social Capital and Cultural Knowledge on Setting-Up and Operating a Transnational Business in Australia
Simon Best
Entrepreneurship in Minority Groups
Approximating Entrepreneurial Superdiversity: Evidence from ethnic minority entrepreneurship in Glasgow
Paul Lassalle | Sakura Yamamura
Ethnic Entrepreneurship And The Concept of Mixed-Embeddedness To Opportunity Formation Process
Kingsley C Njoku
Home Country Effects on Opportunity Recognition by Migrants in the UK
Jonathan Levie | Daphne Hering
Family and Community Business
The Influence of Family Firms on the Sustainability of Start-up/Nascent Enterprises
Louise Scholes | You Yi | Xiaoti Hu | Mat Hughes | Paul Hughes
Understanding the role of relational competency in copreneurial business through a gender perspective
Angela Carradus
Gender and Enterprise
Gendering Entrepreneurship: have the sisters done for themselves?
Susan Marlow | Helene Ahl
Neoliberal Feminism’s Impact on Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Outcomes
Lorna Treanor | Susan Marlow
Pride or Process: Exploring women microbusiness owners’ attitudes to financing their own business
Celia Netana
International Entrepreneurship
Local formal interpersonal networks and SMEs internationalisation: Empirical evidence from UK
Bochra Idris | George Saridakis
Proactiveness as a Catalyst for International Development: An Analysis of Italian USOs
Lisa Messina | Nola Hewitt-Dundas
The role of networks in the internationalisation of small knowledge-intensive businesses service firms
Martina Battisti, David Deakins
Networks and Innovation
Design thinking and innovation in SMEs: an effectual innovation model
David Roach, Joel Ryman
Home Alone: Innovation and sales growth intentions among the solo self-employed
Stephen Roper, Areti Gkypalia
UK Return to Borders: The Value of Networks and Innovation for Outward looking SMEs
Zita Stone | Fragkiskos Filippaios | Georgie Kemsley
Public Sector Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Safeguarding in Public Services
Alexandra James, Jan Myers, Sarah Lonbay
Rural Enterprise
Contextualized entrepreneurship – A logic of space and place in rural biogas production
Richard Ferguson | Cecilia Waldenström
Exploring territorial anchoring in rural entrepreneurship
Marcello De Rosa, Luca Bartoli, Maria Pia
The rural as an entrepreneurial context; concept and engagement
Johan Gaddefors | Alistair Anderson
SME Growth
Spatial Patterns of Entrepreneurship in the UK: Opportunity, Resources and Spill-over Effects
Andrew Henley
The UK’s High-Growth Firms and their resilience over the Great Recession
Michael Anyadike-Danes | Mark Hart
Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
A Theoretical Framework to Investigate Impact Investor-Fund Manager-SME Investee Governance for Social Impact and Financial Returns
Richmond O. Lamptey
Open Social Innovation to Tackle Third Sector Social Challenges
Lauren Tuckerman | Julie Thomson | Geoffrey Whittam
The Legitimacy of Grassroots Necessity-Driven Practices as Forms of Social Entrepreneurship in the Context of a Developing Economy
Maria Margarida Durão De Avillez
Technology Entrepreneurship
Just How Much Does Social Media Contribute to the Business SMEs Win
William James Wilson
New Venture Teams without networks: Successful navigations during the establishment of two New Technology-based Firms
Elizabeth Kim
Towards Building a Framework to Understand Internet Marketing Adoption in Iran: The Case of Iranian Distribution Industry
Sepideh Zahiri | Hatem El-Gohary | Javed Hussain