Rencontres de St-Gall | 01–02 September 2026, St.Gallen
Sustainable entrepreneurship 2.0: How can we re-invigorate the debate (and practice) about the social and environmental responsibility of entrepreneurial ventures? Or do we need to go back to “the business of business is business”?
Participants Rencontres de St-Gall 2026
Rencontres de St-Gall
Every two years, SME researchers from all over the world meet for a week at the Rencontres de St-Gall in order to debate SME, entrepreneurship and family business issues.
A research conference with a long tradition
According to the records of the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Rencontres de St-Gall is the oldest conference of this kind world-wide (it first took place in 1948). It is a unique characteristic of the conference that the papers are not presented by the authors but summasized by chairs and then discussed in plenary sessions.
Rencontres 2026 in St.Gallen
The Rencontres de St-Gall take place in St.Gallen from 01–02 September 2026.
This year's conference topic is:
Sustainable entrepreneurship 2.0: How can we re-invigorate the debate (and practice) about the social and environmental responsibility of entrepreneurial ventures? Or do we need to go back to “the business of business is business”?
Participation in the conference is exclusively by personal invitation.
Every two years, SME researchers from all over the world meet for a week at the Rencontres de St-Gall in order to debate SME, entrepreneurship and family business issues.
A research conference with a long tradition
According to the records of the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Rencontres de St-Gall is the oldest conference of this kind world-wide (it first took place in 1948). It is a unique characteristic of the conference that the papers are not presented by the authors but summasized by chairs and then discussed in plenary sessions.
Rencontres 2026 in St.Gallen
The Rencontres de St-Gall take place in St.Gallen from 01–02 September 2026.
This year's conference topic is:
Sustainable entrepreneurship 2.0: How can we re-invigorate the debate (and practice) about the social and environmental responsibility of entrepreneurial ventures? Or do we need to go back to “the business of business is business”?
Participation in the conference is exclusively by personal invitation.
Looking forward seeing you in St.Gallen
Heiko Bergmann / Isabella Hatak / Henrik Lekkas / Vangelis Souitaris / Thomas Zellweger / Walter Weber
2026 | University of St.Gallen – Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | KMU-HSG