Keyword: Entrepreneurship

Many of the paper presentations and discussions in the research streams in the second WORK2021 conference revolved around the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to working lives, personal lives and overall development of future work during and after pandemic. The questions of post-pandemic global working life were also present in the two plenaries as well as in the several papers presented in different research streams.

In the first part of WORK2021 conference series, WORK I, discussions revolved around the major challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to people’s lives, working lives and personal living. These discussions revolved closely also to the future work life in the post-pandemic arena: how will it look like.

The winner of the Intoa! Entrepreneurial Act of the Year award for the academic year 2020–2021 was announced at this spring’s Entrepreneurship Day in collaboration with LähiTapiola Varsinais-Suomi. The winner is the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) Programme at Turku School of Economics. The award was handed out for the first time in 2016. Together with external partners, the University of Turku has supported entrepreneurial acts with almost a quarter of a million with the Entrepreneurial Act of the Year competition.

European entrepreneurship research conference RENT will be organized in Turku on 18-19th November 2021.
Pre-conference day will be held on 17th November 2021.
The call for abstracts ends on 15th May 2021.
Conference co-operates with different journals and publishers opening up several publication outlets for developing the conference papers into publications.