Welcome to the website of the Summer School on New Venture Legitimacy!

The Summer School on New Venture Legitimacy offers a unique format for a meeting between researchers and decision-makers form the socio-economic world around the concept of legitimacy.

Join us to discover the latest international research on legitimacy in the field of entrepreneurship. 

Come and participate in the advancement of legitimacy with CEOs, entrepreneurs, incubator managers, investors, managers, public decision-makers and researchers.

Contribute to discussions, presentations, round tables and the writing of a white book on new venture legitimacy.

For its first edition, the Summer School on New Venture Legitimacy will take place on July 12^th and 13^th, 2021 on line

The plenary sessions will be filmed at the Cité de l'Innovation et des Savoirs of Aix Marseille University, and broadcast live on the Internet.

The keynote speakers are : 

Alex Bitektine,

assistant professor of management at Concordia University and expert on new venture legitimacy 

Alain Madelin,

former french minister, investor and co-founder of the Latour Capital fund.

Important dates to remember for this conference:

• May 10^th, 2021 : end of the call for papers and regsitration opening at early-bird rate
• June 14^th, 2021: notification of acceptance, opening of the poster and video submission
• June 21^th, 2021: end of the early-bird rate and start of the normal rate
• July 7^th, 2021: end of the poster deposit and video submission
• July 12^th and 13^th, 2021 : Online Summer School on New Venture Legitimacy