The inaugural Darden Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference will bring together leading scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. This event will advance research in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation and explore the implications of these fields' evolution. The conference is being sponsored by Darden's Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. For more information on the conference or to submit a paper, click here.

The Batten Institute seeks to foster entrepreneurship in emerging regions through various means, including entrepreneurship curriculum development, sponsorship of entrepreneurial forums locally and abroad, regional collaborations and research partnerships, conferences, and educational materials created for educators and practitioners. Through the work of Darden Professor S. Venkataraman, the Institute has extended the international reach of Darden's work in entrepreneurship. In partnership with the Journal of Business Venturing and the Indian Business School, the Institute co-sponsored a December 2006 conference on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions in Hyderabad, India. The Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) published a special edition based on the materials generated at this event.

The Institute partnered with the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), Financial Management Association, the Emerging Markets Review, and State Street Corporation to organize the following conferences on emerging markets: Valuation in Emerging Markets (2002), Investing in Emerging Markets (2003), Innovations in Portfolio Management (2004), Emerging Markets Finance (2005). Intellectual capital generated by these conferences include CD-ROM sets of the highlights of the conferences, special editions of Emerging Markets Review, and monographs that summarized the practical issues in the areas of valuation, investing and finance in emerging markets.