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Pontus Braunerhjelm , Managing Director Professor, Royal Institute of Technology

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum is the leading network organization for generating and transferring policy relevant research in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation and SME development. Pontus Braunerhjelm , Managing Director Professor, Royal Institute of Technology

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Pontus Braunerhjelm , Managing Director Professor, Royal Institute of Technology

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  1. Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum is the leading network organization for generating and transferring policy relevant research in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation and SME development. Pontus Braunerhjelm, Managing Director Professor, Royal Institute of Technology Ulrika Stuart Hamilton, Deputy Managing Director

  2. Arrange meeting places, make research accessible • Started operations in 1994 as Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research • Financed by Vinnova, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, and a number of public and private research financers • 40 conferences/seminars annually in Sweden and abroad • Reports, anthologies, short summaries, documentations, newsletters

  3. Brings together researchers in networks and programmes • Initiate, conduct and communicate research • Four research programmes since 2009: • - Entrepreneurship and SMEs in the globalized economy • - Entrepreneurship and SMEs in the knowledge driven growth economy • - Entrepreneurship, SMEs, technology shifts and deregulation • Entrepreneurship in SMEs and in the growing service sectors • Altogether 178 researchers in the network in 2009

  4. International networking – make Sweden visible internationally Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, annual research prize since 1996. Prize sum of €100 000.In cooperation with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth International Council, mainly the Awardees of the Global Award plus some additional experts and representatives from the EU-Commission, meets twice a year Arranging the ICSB, International Congress for Small Business conference 2011 in Stockholm

  5. Pontus Braunerhjelm ManagingDirector, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum Former Principal Secretary, Globalisation Council of the Swedish Government Professor, Economics, Royal Institute of technology Member of Independent Economists Advisory Group, Board of Swedish ForeignInstitute, i.a. www.entreprenorskapsforum.se/eng

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