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Entrepreneurship Research Portal
Includes entrepreneurship-related data sets, a database of entrepreneurship research literature, events and deadlines related to entrepreneurship conferences, calls for papers, and other entrepreneurship research events.
Entrepreneurship Research at UI
Social Entrepreneurship Bibliography
Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research
This bibliography represents works that have strongly influenced scholarship in entrepreneurship.
Useful Journal Databases
Many disciplinary journal index databases include entrepreneurship research published in journals in their field. Some of the key databases available through the UI Library Gateway (and other university libraries) include:
- ABI/Inform (business)
- EBSCO Business Source
- CAB Abstracts (agriculture and entrepreneurship in developing nations)
- EconLit (economics)
- Geobase (includes geography)
- INSPEC/Engineering Village
- PAIS (public administration)
- Web of Science (multidisciplinary)

Working papers
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Submit working papers, conference papers, reports and other publications for which you hold the copyright to the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network at SSRN.

Conferences
Conferences in every discipline accept papers that bring the theoretical frameworks and methodologies of that field to bear on entrepreneurship topics. Among those annual research conferences in the US that focus primarily on entrepreneurship, or have entrepreneurship tracks:
- Academy of Management
- USASBE
  Tip: Because this conference may be less competitive, it can be a good opportunity for graduate students to present papers.
- Strategic Management Society
- Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
  Tip: Includes a doctoral student consortium.
- Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference
  Check the calls for papers sites for many other conferences, in the US and around the world.
Journals
This list includes entrepreneurship journals, and journals in other fields that regularly publish entrepreneurship research, broadly defined. Not comprehensive, this list provides a starting point. For additional publication opportunities, search for topics related to your research interests in the disciplinary journal indexes available through the UI Library.

Books
Among the more common publishers of entrepreneurship research monographs and edited works are:

Ashgate
Cambridge University Press
Edward Elgar
Publisher of entrepreneurship series, in addition to individual titles, including The International Library of Entrepreneurship
Elsevier (including JAI)
Publisher of two entrepreneurship series, in addition to individual titles:
- Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth
- Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth
Springer (including Kluwer Academic)
Publisher of two entrepreneurship series, in addition to individual titles:
- International Studies in Entrepreneurship
- International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship