Entrepreneurship: as a process of identifying opportunities and putting useful ideas into practice

• Corporate entrepreneurship / intrapreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
• Entrepreneurial Process: From Creation to Growth
• Entrepreneurial university and the role of universities
• International Entrepreneurship
• Linking Intellectual Capital, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
• Models of Entrepreneurial learning at all levels of education
• Technological entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, green entrepreneurship
• Young and Female entrepreneurship
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) related experiences

Innovation: as the driver of national, regional and global economy

• Develop the enabling environment for innovative entrepreneurship
• National and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation
• Green Innovation
• Human Resource Practices for promoting innovation for SMEs
• Innovation training & education
• Innovative processes and models (SCM, ERP, BPR, e-business models, …)
• Intellectual Property Management in Higher Education and Research Institutions
• Intellectual property rights
• International cooperation and national innovation policies to face global challenges
• Methods and tools for innovation
• Open innovation strategies and models from universities and research centres
• The conditions for developing sustainable systems of innovation
• European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) related experiences

Regional development: and the possibilities and barriers for closer cooperation between South East European economies, EU and beyond

• Cross-border cooperation – best practices towards regional development
• Entrepreneurship and Regional Open Innovation Systems
• ICT and Regional competitiveness
• Intelligent regions
• Networks and clusters of innovation
• Regional competitiveness and development
• Support infrastructure for entrepreneurial ventures and business incubation
• Territorial cooperation as a driver of regional growth
• The benefit of knowledge zones, business start-up centers and incubators in the region