22ndAnnual Conference, September 22-24, 2010, Chicago, Illinois
Academy's HistoryAcademy of Entrepreneurial Finance's history goes back to 1989- the first year in which AEF started offering annual Small Firm Financial Research Symposia to a targeted audience of academics and practitioners worldwide. Until then, the field had been almost totally ignored by the mainstream finance academics and researchers. Soon after the first few conferences, the academy started publication of its own journal- Journal of Small Business Finance. JSBF later changed its name to The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and in early 2000 to The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures. However, given AEF’s renewed commitment in serving its original niche carved back in 1989, The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance name is back and will remain so for foreseeable future.