You are kindly invited to submit papers for presentation at the International Conference on University-
Based Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Theory, Empirics and Practical
Implementation (ICUBERD) to be held at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics,
Pécs, Hungary, between the 1st and 2nd of December 2016.

Entrepreneurial activities either commercial or non-commercial ones are crucial drivers of both the
economic and the social development of a region. Universities, as the sources of innovative ideas and
new discoveries should take a leading role in initializing, catalyzing, and coordinating such activities to
strengthen the regional innovation system and to integrate the stakeholders of the region into a wider
international innovation system. By taking the lead in this process universities should solve socioeconomic
problems that have the potential of helping communities in the region and also around the
world. Those institutions that choose to be initiators, catalysts and coordinators of their regional
innovation system should make changes on multiple domains, most importantly in the mindset of the
stakeholders of the innovation system. How it can be pursued and what are the pitfalls of such a process
is still to be discovered, debated and resolved. The conference aims to address two important domains:
how to drive and manage a process of institutional transformation towards a more entrepreneurial
model, and how university-based ecosystems can be nurtured in cultural, economic and socio-political
environments that may not be naturally conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation.

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