These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2023), hosted by Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal on 21-22 September 2023. The Conference Co-Chairs are Fernando Moreira and Shital Jayantilal both from Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal. ECIE is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 18th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Prof Doutor Eurico Brilhante Dias, ISCTE Business School, University of Lisbon, Portugal speaking on "The Importance of an Innovation Ecosystem as a Driver for Exports and Economic Growth". The second day of the conference will open with an address from Giuseppe Sofo, McKinsey Fintech, UK and Germany, on the topic of "Fintech and the new Generation of Entrepreneurs Changing the way Business is done". With an initial submission of 260 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 112 Academic research papers, 6 PhD research papers, 4 Masters Research papers, and 6 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia; Austria; Brazil; China; Colombia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; India; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Lebanon; Lithuania; Malaysia; Malta; Netherlands; New Zealand; Nigeria; Norway; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Republic of Korea; Romania; Singapore; Slovakia; South Africa; Spain; Switzerland; Thailand; Tunisia; UK; United Arab Emirates; UK and the USA.

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2023), hosted by Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal on 21-22 September 2023. The Conference Co-Chairs are Fernando Moreira and Shital Jayantilal both from Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal. ECIE is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 18th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Prof Doutor Eurico Brilhante Dias, ISCTE Business School, University of Lisbon, Portugal speaking on "The Importance of an Innovation Ecosystem as a Driver for Exports and Economic Growth". The second day of the conference will open with an address from Giuseppe Sofo, McKinsey Fintech, UK and Germany, on the topic of "Fintech and the new Generation of Entrepreneurs Changing the way Business is done". With an initial submission of 260 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 112 Academic research papers, 6 PhD research papers, 4 Masters Research papers, and 6 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia; Austria; Brazil; China; Colombia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; India; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Lebanon; Lithuania; Malaysia; Malta; Netherlands; New Zealand; Nigeria; Norway; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Republic of Korea; Romania; Singapore; Slovakia; South Africa; Spain; Switzerland; Thailand; Tunisia; UK; United Arab Emirates; UK and the USA.

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 10th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2015), hosted this year by The University of Genoa, Italy on the 17-18 September 2015. The Conference Chair is Prof Luca Beltrametti and the Programme Co-chairs are Prof Renata Paola Dameri, Prof. Roberto Garelli and Prof. Marina Resta, all from the University of Genoa. ECIE continues to develop and evolve. Now in its 10th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Marco Doria – Mayor of Genoa on the topic of Innovation and entrepreneurship in Genoa: past, present and future. A second keynote will be given by Flavia Marzano from the National board for innovation and Italian digital agenda on the topic of Innovation: New visions not just new technologies. The second day Keynote will be given by Roberto Santoro, President of the European Society of Concurrent Engineering Network (ESoCE Net) on the topic of People Olympics for healthy and active living: A people driven social innovation platform. In addition to the main themes of the conference there are a number of specialist mini tracks on topics including Innovation and strategy, Entrepreneurship education in action, The theory and practice of collaboration in entrepreneurship and Challenges for entrepreneurship and innovation n the 21st Century. With an initial submission of 275 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 88 Academic research papers, 6 PhD research papers, 1 Masters Research paper, 4 work-in-progress papers and 1 Non-academic paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, , France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, , Kuwait, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Romania, Russia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Thailand, UK and USA

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2021), hosted by ISCTE Business School, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal on 16-17 September 2021. The Conference Chair is Dr. Florinda Matos and the Programme Co-Chairs are Prof Maria de Fátima Ferreiro, Prof Álvaro Rosoi and Prof Isabel Salavisa all from Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. ECIE is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 16th year, the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The conference was due to be held at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal, but due to the global Covid-19 pandemic it was moved online to be held as a virtual event. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The keynote presentation is given by Soumodip Sarkar, Vice-Rector, from University of Évora, Portugal on the topic of Social Intelligence. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Professor Vittorio Loreto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, who will talk about Exploring the adjacent possible: play, anticipation, surprise.

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 14th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2019), hosted by University of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece on 19-20 September 2019. The Conference Chair is Professor Panagiotis Liargovas and the Programme Chair is Dr Alexandros Kakouris, both from University of Peloponnese, Greece. ECIE is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 14th year, the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Professor Paul Jones, from Swansea University, UK on the topic of Exploring the impact of Entrepreneurship Education. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Professor Aggelos Kotios, University of Piraeus, Greece, on the subject Innovation and entrepreneurship during and after the Greek crisis. With an initial submission of 277 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 138 Academic research papers, 8 PhD research papers, 2 Masters Research papers, 1 non-academic case study and 5 work-in-progress papers published in the Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Bahrain, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Solvenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The Netherlands, UAE, UK and USA. The conference chair and the Programme chair are grateful to "The George and Victoria Karelias Foundation" and to "Costa Navarino" for generous donations which contributed in the conference activities and the overall hospitality.