On 27 May the Kauffman Foundation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum for Entrepreneurial Recovery joined forces to present the forum Covid-19: A Comparative Forum. The forum focused on the impact of the pandemic on entrepreneurship, and considerations and opportunities for the path forward in Europe and the United […]

The annual report from Global Entreprenurship Monitor (GEM), the world’s foremost study of entrepreneurship, was launched today in Miami. Learn everything about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Sweden and 50 other economies around the world  in the report.

The 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to John Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, USA. Haltiwanger is awarded for his pioneering research advancing our understanding of job creation and destruction, productivity growth, and the role of small business and entrepreneurial firms in economic development. The Global Award is the foremost international […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) – is boosting its expertise and knowledge through the addition of 12 new members, including Professor Johan Eklund, Managing Director of Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Cristina Stenbeck, Kinnevik, Jan-Olof Jacke, CEO Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and Deputy President of Lund University, Sylvia Schwaag Serger. Johan Eklund is inducted […]

Tuesday 19 November Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum hosted the recurring event Swedish Economic Forum. The authors and knowledgeable commentators discussed, among other things: Is it possible to learn entrepreneurship? How can entrepreneurship education provide the keys to facing the future? Is entrepreneurship education profitable?

Johan E. Eklund and Lars Petterson are contributing with a chapter in a forthcoming tribute to David Audretsch. In the article, the authors use Audretch’s research as a point of departure to examine the link between education, human capital spillovers and productivity in Swedish firms. They find an economically significant decline in the spillover effect […]

On Saturday the 19th of October Johan Eklund and Martin Andersson were invited as representatives on behalf of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum to be two of the key speakers at the Regional Sustainable Development Conference in Zhaoqing, China. The event was hosted by Tsinghua University, among others. Eklund addressed Sustainable Migration and the Welfare State: […]

On Monday the 14th of October the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum hosted Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, to talk about his well-cited article “The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)”. Commentators included Bo Rothstein, Professor in Political Science at the University of […]

On Friday 4 October Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum hosted the 8th edition of Swedish Schumpeter Lecture. This time with the reputed researcher John Haltiwanger, Professor at University of Maryland-College Park, renowned for his influential work that explore the dynamics behind job creation and job destruction as well as its impact on economic growth.