March 26-28, 2026
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
The Southern Entrepreneurship Research Consortium will host the 2026 Entrepreneurship Research Incubator Conference at the University of Mississippi (i.e., Ole Miss) in Oxford, MS. This developmental research incubator facilitates connections among entrepreneurship scholars and scholars from other disciplines to promote and enhance entrepreneurship research productivity and foster collaboration among colleagues throughout the Southern region of the United States. Past incubators have produced research projects that resulted in publications in the leading entrepreneurship journals and grants funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation.
The conference is targeted to any tenure-track faculty and doctoral students who would like to focus on starting new research projects in entrepreneurship with a dynamic group of scholars. Scholars outside of entrepreneurship who are interested in conducting research in entrepreneurship are most welcome. The conference will also include a research design sprint, research incubation sessions, and opportunities to learn about innovative research methodologies and research contexts.
The 2026 conference will feature sessions with Erik Monsen (University of Vermont), Keith Hmieleski (Texas Christian University) Lou Marino (Kennesaw State), Jon Carr (NC State), Clay Dibrell (Ole Miss), Theresa Welbourne (University of Alabama), Sharon Simmons (Jackson State University), Kristin Cullen-Lester (University of Mississippi), Brady Shanklin (University of Mississippi), and Jorge Arteaga Fonseca (Mississippi State University).
For registration, there is a $100 registration fee, except for doctorate students. Doctorate students do not need to pay. Additionally, there are two approaches for registration.
First, if you are attending to learn more about new approaches and projects, while discovering new co-authors, then please just register, and you do not need to submit a one-pager.
Second, if you are coming because you would like to build off of a research idea that you are considering, then please submit a one-page proposal that is either:
- Launching your Paper - an early-stage concept or idea for which you would like comments/model/suggestions or
- Scaling your Paper - a current work in progress that is more fleshed out/has data/etc.
- Please email Latrell Hudson (lhudson2@go.olemiss.edu) this information when registering.
- The deadline for the one-page proposal is March 20, 2026.
Registration and Hotel Links can be found here: https://olemisscie.com/seri-2026/
If you have any questions, please email your institution's representative: Clay Dibrell (cdibrell@olemiss.edu), Lou Marino (lmarino1@kennesaw.edu), Eric Linguori (eliguori@jmc.fsu.edu), Theresa Welbourne (tmwelbourne@ua.edu), or Jon Carr (jccarr@ncsu.edu).
Thank you and look forward to seeing you in Oxford.
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Clay Dibrell
Full Professor
University of Mississippi
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