ECIE 2024-Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 19th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2024), hosted by CESI, Paris-Nanterre, France on 26-27 September 2024. The Conference and Programme Chairs were Stephanie Buisine and Muriel Davies both from CESI Paris, France

ECIE is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 19th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants from around the world to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. ECIE is recognised for its rigorous peer-reviewed conference proceedings, which ensures that the research presented is of high academic quality and practical relevance. The conference serves as a key venue for the dissemination of cutting-edge research, the exchange of best practices, and the development of new ideas that can drive innovation and entrepreneurship in a rapidly changing global economy.

The opening keynote presentation was given by Stephanie Buisine, CESI, Paris-Nanterre, France who spoke on "Meaningful Innovation". The second day of the conference opened with an address from Olivier Hamant, INRAE, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France on the topic of "Suboptimality: The Inefficient Truth".

With an initial submission of 245 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 122 Academic research papers, 8 PhD research papers, 3 Masters Research papers, and 6 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, greece, INDIA, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Perú, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, UK, USA, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.