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2024 – June 1–3 / ESBRI; Stockholm, Sweden
2025 – July 2–4 / University of Auckland; Auckland, New Zealand

2024 Diana International Research Conference

Women’s Entrepreneurship: Implications for Policy

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Diana International Research Conference and take place in Stockholm, Sweden from June 1–3, 2024 with the theme of “Women’s Entrepreneurship: Implications for Policy.” The conference will be co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute (ESBRI).

Better connecting academic research to policy is a means to enhance and improve success of women entrepreneurs. Building on this reality, the 2024 Conference seeks conceptual and empirical papers that consider women’s entrepreneurship with regards to policy formation, implementation, impact and measurement. More specifically, research examining policy formation, implementation, and impact across all aspects of women’s entrepreneurship is welcome for the Diana Conference 2024. More specifically, invited topics on policy implications include:

• Women’s entrepreneurship in and across contexts: global, multi-cultural, geographic, community, family, industrial, sectoral, cultural and institutional
• Women-led businesses: characteristics (e.g., size, technology, innovation, form, growth trajectory)
• Women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial processes: organizing, launching, developing, financing, managing, growing and exiting
• Intersections of individual and social differences for women entrepreneurs: skills, competencies, race, class, ethnicity, socio-cultural, experiences, education
• Women entrepreneurs as employers and employees, e.g., where and how women entrepreneurs fit into the labor force
• Women entrepreneurship policies: Requirements and lessons for successful policy transfer

The Abstract Submission portal is open!  Deadline for submission is 3 December, 2023.

Key Dates for 2024 DIRC

About the Diana International Research ​​Conference

The Diana International Research ​​Conference is the premier research conference for an international community of scholars to convene and share research that directly impacts theory, practice, education, and policy for women entrepreneurs worldwide.

Since 2003, Diana International Research Conferences have brought together scholars from more than 47 countries worldwide, providing a platform to share a global research agenda dedicated to asking and answering questions about women entrepreneurs. The 14th Diana International Research Conference was held at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland in 2022, and the 15th annual conference will be held in 2023 at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass., USA.

The research conferences are sponsored by the Diana International Research Institute, the permanent home of the Diana Project™, a global consortium of researchers who engage in scholarship, forums, and education focusing on gendered ecosystems, women entrepreneurs and their business growth. Established in 1999 by Professors Brush, Carter, Gatewood, Greene, and Hart—in partnership with ESBRI, Stockholm, the Diana Project has led the research agenda in women’s entrepreneurship across continents, cultures, and contexts.

The Conference is typically two days, beginning with an evening reception on the first day that attendees arrive. In addition to organizing the plenary and parallel paper sessions, the co-sponsoring institution is responsible for organizing one reception, one gala dinner, one breakfast, and one lunch. However, the conference schedule, number of days and presentations, and day of gala dinner can be flexible depending on the number of attendees, and program design of co-sponsor.