This year's theme highlights the dual responsibility of entrepreneurship: to navigate fast-changing worlds with resilience and foresight while contributing to the creation of fairer, more sustainable and hopeful futures. We seek to critically examine how entrepreneurial action can (re)produce these dynamic contexts, the ethical and societal implications of such actions, and how entrepreneurs can embrace their potential as agents of positive impact.

TOPICS

Through this lens, we aim to foster discussions on topics such as:

  • The interplay between entrepreneurial resilience and systemic fragility.
  • The role of entrepreneurship in enabling or mitigating global challenges.
  • Strategies for embedding fairness and sustainability into entrepreneurial ventures for a just transition, in a world where the war economy is gaining traction.
  • New theoretical and practical approaches to making the future through entrepreneurship.

RENT 2026 aspires to inspire cutting-edge research, encourage inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue, and nurture a shared commitment to addressing the complexities of entrepreneurship in our fast-changing world.

 

TRACKS

Quantitative, qualitative and conceptual papers are welcome for the following theme tracks:

  1. Opportunity generation and early business development
  2. Business models (innovation, growth, performance), international entrepreneurship
  3. Entrepreneurial finance for new, growing or scaling businesses
  4. Human capital, social capital, and networks
  5. Entrepreneurship education and learning
  6. Policy, support systems and ecosystems
  7. Critical perspectives on entrepreneurship
  8. New perspectives in methodological approaches
  9. Minority entrepreneurship
  10. Entrepreneurship and Gender (ECSB SIG)
  11. Technology and knowledge-based entrepreneurship
  12. Family business, succession and business transfer
  13. Entrepreneurship and Social change  (ECSB SIG)
  14. Corporate entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship
  15. Entrepreneurship in creative economies
  16. Conducting experiments in entrepreneurship research (ECSB SIG)
  17. Institutions and entrepreneurship (ECSB SIG)
  18. Mental health, interdisciplinary perspectives and Psychological dynamics in Entrepreneurship (ECSB SIG)
  19. AI and entrepreneurship
  20. Conference theme: Entrepreneurship in and for Fast-changing Worlds
  21. Open track for entrepreneurship and small business research