The 9th ENTFIN Conference Annual Meeting will be hosted by the Rotterdam School of Management,
Erasmus University
Main conference: July 3 to 4, 2025.
Pre-conference Doctoral and Early Career Colloquium: July 2, 2025.
We are pleased to announce that the 9th edition of the ENTFIN conference is organized by the Rotterdam School of Management on July 3-4, 2025 and preceded by a PhD Workshop on July 2, 2025. The conference chairs wish to emphasize the disciplinary-spanning character of entrepreneurial finance research and welcome submissions from economics, finance, strategy, and entrepreneurship angles. The conference brings together researchers to facilitate the discussion and development of new ideas in entrepreneurial finance in a stimulating environment. The conference is an initiative of the ENTFIN Association.
Conference chairs
• Thomas Lambert (RSM) and Peter Roosenboom (RSM)
Program
Venue
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Conference and PhD Workshop are in-person.
Registration
If you are not an author or a discussant and still plan to attend the conference, you can send an email to entfin2025@rsm.nl and specify your last name, your first name and affiliation.
Best paper awards
• The 2025 ENTFIN Best Paper Award
• The 2025 ENTFIN Best Doctoral Paper Award
• The 2025 European Investment Fund Best Paper Award on Policy Impact Assessment
Each category (except the Policy Impact Assessment) will have a winner and a runner-up and incudes a prize money.
Topics
We invite all papers that are related to entrepreneurial finance. Topics of interests include everything related to entrepreneurial finance, from the evaluation of venture opportunities, deal valuation, contract and structure, corporate governance, sources of financing (bootstrapping, personal wealth, 3Fs, bank lending, crowdfunding, token offerings, angel investors, corporate investors, venture capital, venture debt, private equity, government funding, etc.), exit strategies, entrepreneur-investor relationships, capital market and regulatory environment facing entrepreneurial ventures, to policy evaluation of publicly supported financial instruments (e.g., PE/VC, credit guarantee schemes, securitization), and their societal outcomes/real effects (entrepreneurship, innovation, growth dynamics, sustainability).For this edition we are particularly interested on entrepreneurial ecosystem and public policy:
• The structure and geography of entrepreneurial ecosystems
• How entrepreneurs, investors, and supporting parties (such as universities, large established companies, consultants) interact within an ecosystem
• What public policies foster the entrepreneurial environment (e.g., government funding of entrepreneurial ventures, tax credits, regulation of capital markets)
• How publicly supported financial instruments affect target beneficiary firms and the broader ecosystem
• The importance of global movements of capital and talent across ecosystems
Conference fees
• Registration fee for Conference: EUR 390 (include EUR 50 annual membership to ENTFIN association)*
• Registration fee for PhD Workshop: EUR 190 (include also access to the Conference and Gala Dinner)
• The registration fee for registrations after June 15, 2025: EUR 450
• The registration fee will cover lunches, coffee breaks, and the Gala Dinner.
* There is 10% reduction for papers accepted for the CASCAD session
Hotel accomodation
Located near the campus (3 min walk)
If you book via Business travel : book hotels online with Accor you will be offered a special rate.
Bilderberg Parkhotel Rotterdam
Located in city center (close to the Gala dinner)
Located in city center
Unique historical location
Scientific committee
Yan Alperovych (EMLYON Business School), Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University), Laurent Bach (ESSEC Business School), Cristiano Bellavitis (Syracuse University), Fabio Bertoni (SKEMA Business School), Magdalena Cholakova (Erasmus University), Veroniek Collewaert (Vlerick Business School), Fabrizio Core (LUISS), Marco Da Rin (Tilburg University), Marc Deloof (University of Antwerp), Supradeep Dutta (Rutgers University), Mircea Epure (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Sapnoti Eswar (University of St. Andrews), Christian Fisch (Université du Luxembourg), Daniel Forbes (Carlson School of Management), Hadar Gafni (King’s College London), Caroline Genc (Michigan State University), Camille Hebert (University of Toronto), David Heller (Politecnico di Milano), Lars Hornuf (Dresden University of Technology), Hans K. Hvide (University of Bergen), Sofia Johan (Florida Atlantic University), Daniel Karpati (Erasmus University), Benjamin Le Pendeven (Audencia Business School), Sophie Manigart (Vlerick Business School), Paul Momtaz (TUM), Clemens Mueller (Erasmus University), Klaas Mulier (Ghent University), Jeroen Neckebrouck (IESE), Mikael Paaso (Erasmus University), Ine Paeleman (University of Antwerp), Sophie Pommet (Université Côte d’Azur), Anita Quas (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale), Daniel Rabetti (NUS Business School), Laura Rosendahl Huber (Erasmus University), Tom Vanacker (Ghent University), Katarina Warg (Copenhagen Business School), Silvio Vismara (Università di Bergamo), Stefan Weik (University of St. Gallen).
More information
Website: https://entfin.org
Email: entfin2025@rsm.nl
We look forward to meeting you
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