Southern Entrepreneurship Research Incubator

The Southern Entrepreneurship Research Consortium will host the 2025 Entrepreneurship Research Incubator at Kennesaw State University. This developmental research incubator facilitates connections among entrepreneurship scholars to promote and enhance entrepreneurship research productivity and foster collaboration among colleagues throughout the South. 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 2025 conference will feature sessions with Jon Carr (NC State), Clay Dibrell (Ole Miss), and Theresa Welbourne (University of Alabama). The conference will also include a research design sprint, research incubation sessions, and opportunities to learn about innovative research methodologies and research contexts.

Southern Entrepreneurship Research Incubator
Feb. 20 - 22, 2025
Kennesaw State University

Book Your Room

Embassy Suites Town Center Kennesaw

Main Hotel

Embassy Suites Kennesaw Town Center
620 Chastain Rd.
Kennesaw, GA 30144

Guests can reserve a room by calling 770-420-2505 and pressing 1. Ask for SERI group rate or reserve via the personalized group page here.

The group cutoff date is Sunday February 2nd, 2025 at midnight.  After this date the group rate will no longer be available.

Guests will be give the complimentary parking using the code ESANP as they check-in.

Hampton Inn Atlanta Kennesaw

Overflow Hotel

Hampton Inn
3405 Busbee Drive
Kennesaw, GA  30144

Please click here to book your SERI Symposium Overnight Rooms.

After January 21st, the group rate may no longer apply.

Agenda (Draft)

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Thursday, February 20, 2025
 

Arrivals

  • Meet & Greet @ Tin Lizzy’s  | 3470 George Busbee Pkwy NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144
Friday, February 21, 2025
  Breakfast on own at hotel (complimentary)

8:30 a.m.

Check-In

9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

  • KSU Center | KC 400

9:30 a.m.

Keynote panel

10:15 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.

Session

  • KSU Center | KC 400

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.  

Lunch
 

Afternoon sessions and research pitches

  • KSU Center | KC 401 and KC 402
  • Panels & Breakout sessions

3:00 p.m.

Afternoon break

 

Afternoon sessions and research pitches

  • KSU Center | Room KC 400

4:00 p.m.

Wrap up

5:00 p.m.

Happy Hour at The Circuit in Woodstock

  • 1 Innovation Way, Woodstock

  • Heavy hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served.

  • Special Guests:

    • Michael Caldwell, Mayor of Woodstock

    • Lee Freeman-Smith, Program Manager, Cherokee Office of Economic Development

    • Dr. Sara E. Davis, Director of the Family Enterprise Center at KSU

7:00 p.m.

Dinner on own in Woodstock
Saturday, February 22, 2025
  Breakfast on own at hotel (complimentary)
9:00 a.m. Welcome
9:15 a.m. 

Morning session

  • KSU Center | KC 400

10:30 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.

Morning session

  • KSU Center | KC 400

Noon

Wrap Up

 

Afternoon 2026 planning meeting

  • Location TBD | Boxed lunches provided

 

Registration is Now Closed


For more information please email Lou Marino (lmarino1@kennesaw.edu), Jon Carr (jccarr@ncsu.edu), or Clay Dibrell (cdibrell@bus.olemiss.edu).