We are pleased to inform  you that Balkan Economic Forum signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD ) a research lab based in Cambridge, (USA) that spun-out of Harvard’s IQSS in 2018. The Lab has the aim to generate and share knowledge about entrepreneurship, development, and sustainability across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. The following general forms of cooperation will be pursued through conducting joint research, joint publication, joint conferences,
exchange of research database, colloquia, lectures, seminars, and other
activities mutually agreed upon by both organizations.

LEAD’s chairperson and co-directors are Prof. Bruno S. Sergi (BEF Advisory Board
member) and Cole Canlon (LEAD’s co-director and co-editor of the LEAD book
series).