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 […]

The 2025 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to Professor Dean A. Shepherd, Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University. He is recognized for his profound influence on research on several central but traditionally overlooked aspects of the entrepreneurial process, including entrepreneurial failure and emotions and entrepreneurship under challenging environmental conditions and adversity. The Global […]

The 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to Saras D. Sarasvathy, Professor Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Sarasvathy is awarded for her pathbreaking research on entrepreneurial decision-making and the entrepreneurial process. The Global Award is the foremost international award in entrepreneurship research with a prize sum of € 100,000.

Who are the pioneers of entreprenurship research? In a new article published in Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship, Professors Pontus Braunerhjelm, Martin Andersson and Johan Eklund, provide an overview of pioneers in entrepreneurship research who have been instrumental in defining, re-introducing and establishing entrepreneurship as a core research discipline.    

Many economies are facing considerable structural reform due to global mega trends. Previously, a “standard” reform package was used for countries in need of structural reform. What is needed today? Is industrial policy a way forward? Swedish Perspectives on Industrial Policy, the Washington Consensus and Beyond will be launched on 17 November.

Tuesday November 9 renowned researcher, Maria Minniti, professor Syracuse University, held Swedish Schumpeter Lecture 2021.  During a webinar, she described the impact entrepreneurial companies have on the emergence of new regulation. See the whole webinar today.

For the past decade, the sharing economy has grown significantly. However, there is still no agreement on how to define and measure the sharing economy. In a newly published article, Joakim Wernberg and co-authors presents a framework for classification of firms and services in the sharing economy.

The Jean Monnet Network: Trade & Investment in Services Associates (TIISA)invites submissions for the 2021 Conference. In line with the Network’s interdisciplinary character, this includes papers in the fields of law, political science, business & economics.

How innovation diffusion can help regions more actively and successfully learn in order to increase their productivity and competitiveness was the focus of a webinar arranged by OECD and Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum September 8. Watch the webinar.