Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to share the call for applications for participating in the third edition of the Summer School in Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Finance that will take place from 4 to 6 May 2026 at Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Fondazione Alessandro Volta, Villa del Grumello, in Como, Italy. The school is organised by the University of Milan-Bicocca, Bocconi University, Politecnico di Milano and the University of Milan.
The Summer School aims to address factors of emerging importance that affect the creation, success, survival and effective development of new businesses and ventures, such as: the internal and external decision-making processes, the social and environmental concerns, the entrepreneurial ecosystems, the availability of financial instruments and the changing financial environment. The broadest purpose is to develop an ongoing and constructive dialogue among senior, young and aspiring entrepreneurship, innovation, and finance scholars to conduct research relevant to entrepreneurship theory and practice in the contemporary world.
The school is addressed to doctoral students and early-stage researchers with a research proposal in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation or finance, with a maximum of 15 participants.
The application deadline is the 5th of March, 2026.
To learn more about the school, please visit the website https://seif3.lakecomoschool.org/
For the online application, please visit https://seif3.lakecomoschool.org/application/ and read the call for applications included here carefully.
For enquiries regarding the application procedure and accommodation, please contact info@lakecomoschool.org; for enquiries about the scientific aspects of the school, please contact musasummerschool@unimib.it.
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Valentina Toscano
Department of Business and Law
University of Milano-Bicocca
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