ACE Director Per Davidsson was one of the invitees to the “2012 Summer Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars” held in Oxford, UK, on July 8 –14. Green Templeton College hosted the event, while the delegates had their accommodation at Harris Manchester College. The residence week is a “different” type of academic gathering, where a group of some 25 accomplished scholars with backgrounds in business and economics work individually or in spontaneous/self-organised collaboration for most of the days, while the late afternoon hours are used for seminars organised “on the spot”. Thus, the meeting can become pretty much what each participant makes it: a writing retreat, a networking arena, and a forum for dissemination and feedback. The very academic environment certainly helped fuel scholarly creativity, and in its own way, the four-seasons-in-a-day UK weather also helped making the event memorable. A broad range of entrepreneurship topics were covered, from genetics to formal economic modelling. Apart from more specific topics, much of the discussions centred on scholarly standards of publication and research and evaluation, and how to improve them. Many new connections were made, and the delegates and organisers alike seemed very pleased with the experience. Hence, the possibility of making the residence week an annual event will now be explored.