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Research on technology transfer and innovative entrepreneurship wins foremost global entrepreneurship award and € 100,000

The 2026 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to Professor Albert N. Link and Professor Donald S. Siegel. They are recognized for pioneering research on technology transfer and innovative entrepreneurship, which has paved the way for a new generation of scholars and research on previously neglected sources and processes of entrepreneurship.

Professor Link’s and Professor Siegel’s contributions include:

  • Showing and explaining how entrepreneurs relate to the institutions, organizations, and geographies around them, thus inspiring new, increasingly nuanced, and research-based approaches to public policy, aimed at fostering innovative entrepreneurship.
  • Pioneering research and promotion of technology transfer in different contexts, which has unlocked the entrepreneurial potential of universities and government bodies, and in the process contributed to science-based innovation and entrepreneurial new venturing.– Their scholarly leadership is an exemplary case of how scientific rigor and world-class research can go hand in hand with societal impact and the promotion of real-world entrepreneurship, says Ivo Zander, Professor Uppsala University and Chair of the Prize Committee.

Albert N. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG); Donald S. Siegel is Regents Professor and Co-Executive Director, Global Center for Technology Transfer at Arizona State University.

The Award ceremony will take place in Stockholm on 1 June 2026. For further information, please visit our website, www.e-award.org.

For information and contact:
Pernilla Heed, for the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, +46 70 372 74 76. Ivo Zander, Professor of Entrepreneurship Uppsala University and Chair of the Prize Committee +46 18 471 13 55.

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research is the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship. The Award honors significant contributions to theory-building on entrepreneurship and small business development. The Award consists of the statuette ”The Hand of God” by the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles and a prize amount of 100 000 Euros.

Founder of the Award: Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. Sponsor:  Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)