The annual report from Global Entreprenurship Monitor (GEM), the world’s foremost study of entrepreneurship, is launched today in Santiago, Chile. The entrepreneurial behaviour and attitudes of individuals, now in 49 countries, is measured and evaluated for the twentieth consecutive year.

The Swedish Economic Forum Report 2018 “Navigating through uncertainty – entrepreneurship, innovations and experimental policy” highlights continuous adaptability as a critical factor in maintaining high prosperity. Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 7 are written in English covering aspects of experimental policy and governance in Sweden, UK, Finland, USA and China.  

October 31, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum hosted Swedish Schumpeter lecture. This year, David Audretsch, Professor at the Department of Public Environment and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, lecured. His topic was “Creative Destruction or Destructive Creation?”.

Johan Eklund and Emma Lappi, both Swedish Entreprenurship Forum,  find that product market regulations negatively influence competition and increase permanent rents, resulting in misallocation of resources in the article ”Product regulations and persistence of profits: OECD evidence” recently published in Journal of Regulatory Economics.

On 11 September, Max Nathan, Deputy Director What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth (WWG) visited Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum to share some lessons and experiences from working with policy impact evaluation in the UK. What should be measured and what constitutes an efficient policy? A conversation the invited panelists enthusiastically joined.  

Journal of Economic Geography highlights and grants free access to a few of their most cited articles. Among these are an article about entrepreneurship clusters written by Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum researchers Martin Andersson and Johan P Larsson.

23 representatives from different districts in Beijing, China, interested in learning more about circular economy visited Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. Almas Heshmati, Professor at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, and Jönköping International Business School, presented the report “A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation in China, Sweden and Europe”.

In a recent published article in the scientific journal International Business Review, Pontus Braunerhjelm and Torbjörn Halldin analyze the occurrence and performance of so-called born globals over time. The authors show that contrary to expectations, born globals is a rare phenomenon.

During the last decade, ’Scale-Ups’ have increasingly become an established feature of the business policy landscape. However, research in entrepreneurship and management provides limited insight into the factors that enable successful transitions from start-ups to scale-ups. To fill in the gaps Henley Business School, Indiana University and Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum will organize a workshop Oktober 29-30 […]