Aims and themes

The Danube Cup 2025 Conference aims to attract submissions that demonstrate the complexity and relevance of small and medium-sized businesses in modern economies and their interfaces with entrepreneurship research. Beside this focus topic, innovative research results from the broader field of entrepreneurship research are encouraged and welcomed. 

 

The scope of the conference includes but is not limited to the following areas:

  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Support Infrastructure
  • Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship
  • Regional / Territorial dimensions of Entrepreneurship 
  • New Venture Creation
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial Process / “Journey”
  • Entrepreneurial Finance and Investment
  • Entrepreneurial Marketing and Sales 
  • Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset and Behaviour
  • Teaching Entrepreneurship 
  • Research Methods in Entrepreneurship

Important dates

► 1 February 2025 – Announcement of Call for Papers (with short description of sections)

► 1 June 2025 – Submission Deadline (i. Full papers, ii. Work-in-progress papers and iii. Good practice cases)

► 15 July 2025 – Notification of acceptance

► 15 September 2025 – Registration deadline 

► 10-11 October 2025 – Danube Cup 2025 Conference

Fees

The Danube Cup 2025 is a free of charge conference for all authors and invited speakers.

Participation includes conference attendance, networking events, and optional programmes. Participants will have the opportunity to publish the selected papers in one of the following:

Book of Abstracts

Special issues of partner journals

WoS/Scopus indexed partner journals