Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a featured speaker on Nov. 19 and chaired the plenary panel session launching the RENT XXIII Conference in Budapest, Hungary.
The conference was hosted by Corvinus University, Budapest, and co-organized by European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
The plenary panel topic addressed ‘Entrepreneurial Growth of the Firm.’ Members of the panel were Gábor Baranyi, CEO – Qualypan; Robert Blackburn, Professor – Kingston University; Cristina Boari, Professor – University of Bologna; Zoltán Bruckner, CEO – Primus Capital Partners; Tom Elfring, Professor – Vrije University.
The RENT conference is the premier European research conference on entrepreneurship. More than 260 registered delegates participated and more than 150 papers were presented at the conference. Organizers welcomed theoretical as well as empirical research papers addressing growth and the current gap in scientific literature in the field.
Researchers and practitioners also had the opportunity to share their ideas on the general topics of entrepreneurship focusing on a variety of questions and current issues pertinent to growth of entrepreneurial firms.
Palin also presented at the pre-conference Doctoral Seminar, chaired the paper presentation session on social entrepreneurship and was a panelist on the closing panel discussing ‘New Ventures in Established Firms.’
The European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to advance the understanding of entrepreneurship and to improve the competitiveness of SMEs in Europe. The ECSB is an affiliation to the International Council for Small Business (ICSB).
The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) has dedicated itself to raising the profile of European Management Research with respect to other established scientific disciplines as well as the business world.