The McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Rice University’s Baker Institute seeks submissions of empirical and/or theoretical papers concerning the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth.
The center will consider papers that use a broad range of definitions of either term. Topics on which paper submissions would be welcome include, but are not limited to:
• High-tech, high-growth ventures • Small business and/or self-employment • Company formation • Entrepreneurs themselves • Welfare analysis • Contributions toward gross domestic product • Firm and/or industry growth • Economic diversification • Urban entrepreneurship ecosystem development • Increasing rates of success, returns to capital and/or productivity • Value creation • Technological improvements • Effects on social mobility, opportunity and/or inequality • Increased competition and specialization • Novel measures
Submissions or abstracts must be sent by Oct. 20, 2017. Click here for application information.
