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Entrepreneurship in Sweden is falling and the country now occupies a bottom position internationally. Despite measures and support packages initiated by the government, entrepreneurship fell from 8.3 percent in 2019 to 7.3 percent in 2020. Read more in this year’s report of the world’s largest entrepreneurship survey Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM.

The Digital Markets Act: What is the Right Way to Regulate the Tech Industry to Empower SMEs? was the topic of a webinar arranged by SME Europe. Joakim Wernberg, Research Director at Swedish Entreprenuership Forum was one of the speakers and gave his view on how the EU digital compass should be designed to achieve […]

How can today’s market economy deliver better results and solve our problems? It is about understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction, claims one of the world’s leading economists, Philippe Aghion, professor at Harvard University and former winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, who recently launched a new book on what drives […]

The world-leading economist John Haltiwanger was awarded the 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research and held a lecture titled “Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century” at a prize ceremony broadcasted from Stockholm. Take part of the replay!

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum have started a new policy paper series on technology, economics and structural change. The first paper address innovation, competition and digital platforms. The article sheds light on the friction between competition laws and digital platform companies that are significantly different from the type of business the legal structure was developed for.

Innovation policy for a sustainable future is the theme for a series of webinars arranged by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Johan Eklund, Managing Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, was one of the speakers on 21 October. This webinar explored innovation policies for the platform economy and sustainable production and consumption.  

A webinar organised by the OECD Trento Centre in collaboration with Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum offered different perspectives on the effectiveness of business incentives a popular tool of supporting regional and local economic development. Check out the webinar, summary and slides.

What does entrepreneurship among migrants look like in the United States and in other countries? Are migrants more entrepreneurial? These issues where discussed at this year’s Swedish Schumpeter Lecture, held by Harvard professor William Kerr and arranged as a webinar on 28 October.