1. Open Access Policy
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Review is a fully open-access journal, meaning that all articles are made freely and permanently available to the public immediately upon publication.
Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without financial, legal, or technical barriers, other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet.
No subscription or pay-per-view fees are charged for accessing journal content.
2. Copyright Ownership
Authors who publish in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Review retain the copyright to their work.
Copyright is held by the author(s), and no exclusive transfer of copyright is required. By submitting and publishing their work, authors grant Entrepreneurship and Innovation Review a non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, and archive the article as the version of record.
3. Licensing Terms
All articles published in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Review are licensed under the:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Under this license:
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Users are permitted to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format)
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Users are permitted to adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially)
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Appropriate credit must be given to the author(s) and the journal
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Any adaptations must be distributed under the same license (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The full license text is available at the Creative Commons website.
4. Author Rights
Authors retain the right to:
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Reuse their articles in future works (e.g., books, lectures, or compilations)
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Share the published version with colleagues
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Deposit all versions of their article in repositories or personal websites
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Authorize others to reuse their work in accordance with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license
These rights apply without embargo.
5. Self-Archiving and Repositories
Authors are permitted to deposit the following versions of their articles:
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Preprint
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Accepted Manuscript
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Published Version (final PDF)
Deposits may be made in:
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Institutional repositories
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Subject repositories
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Personal or institutional websites
All self-archived versions must:
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Clearly acknowledge Entrepreneurship and Innovation Review as the original publisher
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Include a citation and link to the official published version or DOI
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Comply with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license
6. Third-Party Material
If an article contains third-party material not covered by the Creative Commons license, authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions and clearly indicating any licensing restrictions within the article.
7. Policy Scope and Consistency
This Open Access and Copyright Policy applies to all articles published in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Review and is aligned with the journal’s:
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Archiving and Self-Archiving Policy
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Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
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Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
