- Ole Miss School of Business
- Innovate.ms
- Mississippi Angel Network
- Miss. Small Business Development Center
- Transactional Law Clinic
- UM Foundation
- Insight Park
- Division of Technology Management
- Haley Barbour Center for Mfg. Excellence
- Mississippi Development Authority
- Mississippi Small Business Development Center
- Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce
- North Mississippi Enterprise Initiative (NMEI)

March 26-28, 2026 | University of Mississippi
The Southern Entrepreneurship Research Consortium will host the 2026 Entrepreneurship Research Incubator at the University of Mississippi. 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 2026 conference will feature sessions with Lou Marino (Kennesaw State Univ.), Jon Carr (NC State), Clay Dibrell (Ole Miss), Theresa Welbourne (University of Alabama), and Eric Liguori (Florida State Univ.). The conference will also include a research design sprint, research incubation sessions, and opportunities to learn about innovative research methodologies and research contexts.


The Inn at Ole Miss
120 Alumni Drive | Oxford, MS 38677
Last Day to Book under the Group Rate is February 24, 2026

Tru by Hilton Oxford
97 Ed Perry Blvd. | Oxford, MS 38677
Group Rate Details TBA

Agenda and Registration Details: To be Announced
For more information please email Lou Marino (lmarino1@kennesaw.edu), Clay Dibrell (cdibrell@olemiss.edu), Theresa Welboune (tmwelbourne@ua.edu), Eric Liguori (eliguori@jmc.fsu.edu) or Jon Carr (jccarr@ncsu.edu).

