The conference provides an international opportunity for scientific discussion and collaboration on a broad range of relevant fertile areas associated to recent trends in innovation. Over the last years, there is a growing recognition in business environments of the key role played by innovation...

The theme of the Conference for ECIE 2014 is "Societal-driven innovation and entrepreneurship". At this conference we would like to underline an important European innovation and entrepreneurship challenge of enhancing the development of the social economy sector.