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Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference

The Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference (GEIRC) will be hosted by National Taiwan University College of Management from 26-27 June 2025.

The 2025 GEIRC, a collaboration between the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business, and National Taiwan University College of Management will be the 12th gathering of the conference which rotates between North America (Virginia, Colorado), Europe (Cambridge), and Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan). This global conference aims to promote worldwide scholarly collaborations across regions, continents and academic communities.

For more information, visit the 2025 GEIRC website.

  • 2019 Conference Archive

    The University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) co-hosted the 2019 conference in Darden’s new Rosslyn Facility on 7-8 May 2019. This was the tenth annual gathering of the conference which rotates between North America (Virginia), Europe (Cambridge), and Asia (Hong Kong). This global conference aims to promote worldwide scholarly collaborations across regions, continents and academic communities. 

    The conference is interdisciplinary and brings together a diverse set of presenters and discussants for two days of scholarly conversation on innovation and entrepreneurship. The conference promises to provide a vigorous and lively discussion about current research in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation from a global perspective.

    2019 Conference Photos


    2019 Conference Committee

    Michael Lenox (Darden School of Business, University of Virginia)– co-chair

    Stelios Kavadias (Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) – co-chair

    Po-Hsuan Hsu (Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong) – co-chair