RESEARCH NETWORK DEBATE - Entreprenörskapsforum€¦ · 27/11/2017 · Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, Head of Philanthropy Advisory, UBS, Johanna Palmberg, Research Director Swedish

SWEDISH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM

ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY SE-701 82 ÖREBRO

GREVGATAN 34 SE-114 53 STOCKHOLM

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Since 1994 Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum provides policy relevant

high quality research to decision makers in the private, public and politi-

cal spheres.

Our focus is policy relevant research on entrepreneurship, innovation,

business dynamics and growth, that can contribute to better informed

and long-term policy decisions.

Our mission can be summarized i three words:

Research – Initiate, generate and communicate policy relevant research

Network – Unique network of Swedish and international researchers, decision

makers and practitioners

Debate

– Link between theory and practice in public debate

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Photos front: Hernando de Soto, founder Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru, Jan Eliasson, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Chief of health, Unicef, Margareta Norell Bergendahl, Professor KTH, Ingrid Pet-terson, Director-General Formas, Lena Pripp-Kovac, Head of Sustainability, IKEA of Sweden, Diana Amini, Global Manager H&M Foundation and Alexandra Silfverstolpe Tolstoy, founder Data Act Lab.

Photos back: Magdalena Andersson, Minister for Finance, Annie Lööf, Party leader Center Party, Magnus Billing, CEO Alecta, Alexandra Mörner, Chairman Axfoundation, Maria Anders-son Willner, MP Socialdemocratic Party, AnnaMaria Oltorp, Head of Research cooperation SIDA, Mats Persson, MP and Economic policy spokesperson Liberal Party.

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Johan EklundManaging Director, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor Blekinge Institute of Technology

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum has been active in the field of generating and trans-ferring policy relevant research in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation and SMEs for 25 years 2019. Today we are the leading network organization in this field in Sweden.

Every year we publish around 20 research based reports and organize approximately30 seminars and conferences. To contribu-te with knowledge and enrich the debate Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum has gathe-red networks of key policy actors, business leaders and decision makers. This serves to fulfil the organization’s ambition to be a motor of change and affect policy to create

good conditions for individuals to gene-rate ideas and embark on new businesses ventures.

Despite a broad consensus on the entrepre-neur as a key to economic developmentand creation of new and growing busines-ses, the need for continuous attention to the issue cannot be stressed enough. Sweden is in need of further reforms to strengthen the conditions for entrepreneurs in an increasingly tough global competition. By elevating the public debate with high quality research we believe better conditions for dynamic, growth-friendly economic policies are created.

Need for continued reforms to strengthen conditions for entrepreneurship

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Annual HighlightsSwedish Entrepreneurship Forum annually organizes a number of flagship events: Swedish Entrepreneurship Sum-mit, Swedish Philanthropy Summit, the Prize Ceremony of Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Schumpeter Lecture and Swedish Economic Forum. In addition, activities are arranged within Swedish Entrepre-neurship Forum’s various forums.

Swedish Entrepreneurship Summit is our annual conference that gathers a large number of stakeholders interested in strengthening and promoting entre-preneurship and favorable conditions for Swedish enterprise. In 2018 the conference was arranged in collaboration with Örebro University and attracted around 150 parti-cipants. Labor market issues and the supp-ly of skills – connected to entrepreneurship and possibilities to scale up – were among topics discussed.

Around 200 participants gather annu-ally to attend the conference Swedish Philanthropy Summit. Bringing together perspectives from the US, Europe and

Sweden, a large number of Swedish and international speakers from academia as well as politics discuss philanthropy with donors, receiving organizations and an interested public. The conference 2018 highlighted new forms of investment and an increased role for philanthropy as a way of solving societal challenges.

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research is the most prestigious international prize for research on entrepreneurship. The Pri-ze is awarded annually and consists of the statuette “The Hand of God”, created by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, and a Prize sum of 100,000 euros. The 2018 winner Professor Olav Sorenson was awarded for

showing how entrepreneurial activity and innovation are strongly embedded in soci-ally and spatially bounded relationships.

Since 2003 Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum have awarded young promising researchers the Young Researcher Award. The organization also participate in the international competition The Global Student Award.

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum is the Swedish partner of the Global Entrepre-neurship Monitor (GEM), the largest glo-bal research venture on entrepreneurial ac-tivity. Since 2010, an annual Swedish report based on survey and interview data has


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been published. The survey covers around 75 percent of the world population and 90 percent of global GDP. The national GEM report is presented in June every year. The 2018 edition has a special focus on social entrepreneurship.

Going on its tenth year Swedish Econo-mic Forum Report is a yearly anthology highlighting policy relevant issues in the present. The ninth edition focused on Swedish competitiveness and analyzed factors important for long-term competiti-veness and the ability to generate growth. One of the chapters contained a competi-tive scorecard which ranks Sweden based on a number of national factors that affect

companies’ competitiveness. The ambition of the report is to lay foundation for a regular follow-up of Swedish competi-tiveness. The 2018 report puts focus on entrepreneurship, market experiments and experimental policy.

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Above from the left: Jan Eliasson, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director Global Indicators Group, Worldbank, Björn O Nilsson, Managing Director Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Johan Eklund, Managing Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor BTH, Leif Johansson, Chairman AstraZeneca, Ericsson and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Lena Sellgren, Chief economist Business Sweden. Mikael Damberg, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation. Kerstin Söderbaum Fletcher, Founder Söderbaumska school and community accomodation Tersen, Meiju Vartiainen, Founder Mowida, Margareta Jonsson, Polarbröd, Björn Rosengren, former Minister for Enterprise Social Democratic Party, Martin Ådahl, Chief economist Center Party, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Research Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor BTH and KTH and Carin Holmqvist, Professor Stockholm School of Business. Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, Head of Philanthropy Advisory, UBS, Johanna Palmberg, Research Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Associate Professor Södertörn University, Mikael Ahlström, Co-founder Procuritas, Chelha and Founder Charity Rating, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Research Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor BTH and KTH, Ro-bert af Jochnick, Founder and Board member Oriflame and Johan Andresen, Founder and Chairman Ferd. Cass Sunstein, Professor Harvard Law School, Anna Breman, Chief economist Swedbank, Johan Eklund, Managing Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor BTH, Niklas Johansson, State secretary for the Minister for Enterprise and Innovation and Mats Persson, MP and Economic policy spokesperson Liberal Party.


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Braunerhjelm cited 1000 times!One of the pioneers of a new theorem is Pontus Braunerhjelm, Research Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Profes-sor BTH and KTH. His research, published in the leading journal Small Business Economics, has now been scientifically cited 1000 times. In The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship he describes, along with his co-authors, how a new research field have emerged since the beginning of the 21st century.

A Swedish Competitiveness ScorecardIn Swedish Economic Forum Report 2017 one chapter authored by Dr. Christian Ketels, Harvard Business School and Stockholm School of Economics, The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard 2017, focuses on the current drivers of competitiveness in Sweden. Competitiveness is defined as the overall quality of all funda-mental factors that allow companies to achieve high productivity and thus support a high standard of living. The Competitiveness Scorecard organizes indicators around an impact logic connec-ting competitiveness fundamentals to economic activity to ulti-mate outcomes. The results shows that while Sweden continues to do well, the concern emerging from the analysis is that the country is currently not taking the steps necessary to ensure futu-re success. Sweden’s competitiveness is though high and under no imminent threat. But the country could do more for its future in a world that is getting less forgiving for missing opportunities

A unique networkThe network that Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

has built up in the research community, industry and

among leading decision makers is organized within

the organization’s three forums. Each forum is chaired

by a steering committee that develops report ideas

within each subject area and plans outward activities in

connection with the launch of reports.

Economic Policy Forum gathers important stakeholders

in economic policy for policy discussions with particular

relevance for long-term, sustainable development of Swedish

business.

Through research Philanthropy Forum aims to highlight

the importance of philanthropy for economic growth and

prosperity. The Forum has hosted a number of public

seminars including the international event Swedish

Philanthropy Summit.

Regional Policy Forum focuses on regional opportunities

for Swedish business dynamics and long-term sustainable

growth. Based on the latest research the forum aims to point

to the economic policy measures that can help strengthen

entrepreneurship and competitiveness regionally.

ECONOMIC POLICY FORUM

PHILANTHROPY FORUM

REGIONAL POLICYFORUM

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Swedish Schumpeter LectureSwedish Schumpeter Lecture is an annual lecture series where world renowned scholars belonging to the Schumpeterian strand of economics present their research. The three latest have been Mark Skousen, presidential fellow at Chapman University in California, Saras D Sarasvathy, Professor Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and Mirjam van Praag, Copenhagen Business School.

Go Beyond GDP!Since 2014, the US is publishing GO - Gross Output - as a comple-mentary measure of GDP. GO is a broader measure of economic activity and serves as a complement to GDP. According to Mark Skousen, one of the world’s most influential economists, who introduced the new measure in the United States, the business sector (entrepreneurship, capital invest-ment, saving and investment) is considered far more impor-tant than consumer spending and government stimulus with GO. Swedish Entrepreneurship Summit published a policy summary on GO in conjunction with Swedish Schumpeter Lectures 2017.

Creating impact through philanthropy ”Creating impact through philanthropy – a Nordic perspective” is based on in-depth interviews with over 40 philanthropists across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden focusing on issues such as donor motivations and influences, philanthropic practices and operations, challenges and obstacles to giving, the forms of support philanthropy can facilitate, and how its impacts might be strengthened. The report demonstrates the very specific flavor of Nordic philanthropy. Authors: Pontus Braunerhjelm, Research Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Profes-sor BTH and KTH, and Johanna Palmberg, Research Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and associate professor Södertörn University. UBS Philanthropy Advisory sponsored the study.

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All the Way to the Top: Innovation, Growth, and the Role of the StateEntreprenörskapsforum och Stockholm Institute of Transition Econo-mics arrangerade ett seminarium med två seniorekonomer från Inter-national Monetary Fund, IMF: Dr. Reda Cherif och Dr. Fuad Hasanov.

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Swedish Economic Forum 2017 – Svensk konkurrenskraftÅrets Swedish Economic Forum Report lanserades på Berns i Stockholm. I rapporten lyftes faktorer av betydelse för långsiktig konkurrenskraft och förmågan att generera tillväxt och upprätthålla förädlingsvärden i den svenska ekonomin.

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Företrädaransvaret - Kan det avskaffas?Lanering av rapporten Företrädaransvar – kan det avskaffas, av Roger Persson Österman, professor Stockholms universitet. Vad får egentligen företrädaransvaret för ekonomiska konsekvenser för individen och för samhället?

2017-10-19

Filantropi, förändringskraft och forskning – så nås FNs globala mål!Entreprenörskapsforums Filantropiska forum arrangerade ett semi-narium kring FNs 17 globala hållbarhetsmål. Jan Eliasson, tidigare vice generalsekreterare FN, talade om hur vi i Sverige kan samverka för att nå de högt ställda målen för den globala utvecklingen.

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Swedish Schumpeter Lecture 2017 Årets föreläsare var Dr Mark Skousen, framförallt känd för att kom-

Focus on property rights for Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2017On Monday May 15 the 2017 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research was awarded to Hernando de Soto, founder of the think-tank Institute of Liberty and Democracy (ILD), in Lima, Peru. He received the award from the Minister for Fi-nance Magdalena Andersson. De Soto received the award for developing a new understanding of the institutions that underpin the informal economy as well as the role of property rights and entrepreneurship in converting the informal economy into the formal sector.

Hernando de Soto, founder of Institute of Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, is one ofthe world’s most influential thin-kers – Time Magazine ranks him as one of Latin America’s five most distinguished innovators throughout the 20th century. De Soto has conducted academic research and contributed to public political discus-sions on global development over the last 30 years. His analyzes has prepared way for new approaches to alleviate poverty and underdevelopment by reforming ownership systems, company rules and legislation. Hernando de Soto’s analy-zes have had huge influence on politics

around the world and is the main source of inspiration for the World Bank’s Doing Business reports.

His contribution has led to a new and bet-ter understanding of the role of institutions for entrepreneurship, especially in deve-loping countries. De Soto’s work has paved way for new ways to judge and measure how difficult it is for people to enter the formal sector. He has also shown that shor-tage of capital is not the biggest problem in many developing countries. Instead, the lack of documented ownership is. De Soto claims that poorly defined ownership

rights hinder people from pro-ductive use of assets that they control. In his prize lecture, he referred to a large parallel world of five billion people without property rights or evidence of who they are. These five billion are not part of social networks of trust, said de Soto.

Johan Eklund, Managing Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor BTH, Magdalena Andersson, Minister for Finance and Hernando de Soto, founder Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru.


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Established in 1996 as the foremost global

award for research on entrepreneurship.

The Award honors significant contributions

to theory-building on entrepreneurship and

small business development.

Founder of the Award: Swedish Entrepre-

neurship Forum. Co-founder: The Research

Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Spon-

sor: VINNOVA - Sweden’s Innovation Agency.

Donor: Stockholms Köpmansklubb.

Award winners:2018 Olav Sorenson2017 Hernando de Soto2016 Philippe Aghion2015 Sidney G. Winter2014 Shaker A. Zahra2013 Maryann P. Feldman2012 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt2011 Steven Klepper2010 Josh Lerner2009 Scott A. Shane2008 Bengt Johannisson2007 The Diana Group

Johan Eklund, Managing Director Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor BTH, Hernando de Soto, Founder Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru, Magnus Henrekson, Managing Director and Professor IFN, Magdalena Andersson, Minister for Finance, Mikaela Backman, PhD Jönköping International Business School, Joakim Appelquist, Head of International Cooperation Vinnova - Sweden’s innovation agency and Lars Backsell, Founder Recipharm and Chairman Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. To the right: Johan Eklund and Hernando de Soto.

2006 Israel M. Kirzner2005 William B. Gartner2004 Paul D. Reynolds2003 William J. Baumol2002 Giacomo Becattini & Charles F. Sabel2001 Zoltan J. Acs & David B. Audretsch2000 Howard E. Aldrich1999 Ian C. MacMillan1998 David J. Storey1997 Arnold C. Cooper1996 David L. Birch

Young Researcher Award

The Young Researcher Award has been awarded annually

since 2003. It goes to a scholar, under the age of 35, who

through research has distinguished him- or herself in the area

of entrepreneurship and small business. The 2018 winner David

R Sjödin, Luleå University of Technology, LTU, is focused on

entrepreneurship within established companies.

The prize, which consists of 150 000 SEK, was founded by

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum to encourage young resear-

chers to invest their time and effort in research about entre-

preneurship. Triton Advisers (Sweden) AB is the sponsor of the

prize since 2015.

Global Student Entrepreneur Award, GSEA

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum also participate in the

international competition Global Student Entrepreneur

Award, through the annually nominations of one undergra-

duate student who at the same time is an owner, founder or

controlling shareholder of a company.

The winner receives SEK 150,000 and a place in the

international GSEA finals. The competition is arranged

by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and the Swedish

Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. Triton Advisers

(Sweden) AB is the sponsor.

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VINNOVAOTHER STATE/PUBLIC SECTORRESEARCH FOUNDATIONSBUSINESS ORGANIZATIONSENTERPRISE/BUSINESSCONFERENCE REVENUES

Publications

Carl Bennet The Kamprad Family FoundationMarianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation Rune AnderssonConfederation of Swedish Enterprise Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth Triton Advisers Sweden AB Vinnova - Sweden’s innovation agencyÖrebro University

Principal financiers 2017: Financial distribution 2017:

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum initiates, conducts and comminicates policy relevant research in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, business dynamics and growth and our publications consequently cover these areas.


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COPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INVESTMENTBoth in Sweden and EU attention is set upon the relatively low economic growth, productivity drops and loss of market share. An explanation might be the quality of the decisions of management.

GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONITORSwedish Entrepreneurship Forum is the Swedish partner of the Global Entrepre neurship Monitor (GEM), the largest global re-search venture on entrepreneurial acti vity. Since 2010, an annual Swedish report based on survey and interview data has been published. The Swedish survey has extended the survey and explores regional variations in entrepreneurship and analyses if previous experience of entrepreneurship creates serial entre-preneurs. The global survey covers around 70 percent of the world population and 85 percent of global GDP. The national GEM report is presented in June every year.

ENTREPRENEURIAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE Focus lies on the importance of policy measures to promote inn-ovation and entrepreneurship that can counteract the potentially large negative effects of global warming.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SPATIAL INEQUALITIES AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH A key objective of the project is to investigate the particular charac-teristics of rural locality and conditions for successful rural entrepre-neurship as well as its potential to drive industrial renewal.

PHILANTHROPY IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMY A research project that is aiming to increase knowledge of philanthropy and its role in an entrepreneurial economy from a Swedish perspective.

FAMILY COMPANY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP ANDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT In the project, corporate governance is studied, e.g. ownership structure, board and management with a special focus on the family as owner.

GLOBAL MEGATRENDS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT About exploring the role of and conditions for entrepreneurship and innovation in relation to global megatrends and the fra-mework of SDGs, building on current bodies of knowledge and state of the art research.

INNOVATION WITHOUT ENTREPRENEURS? – a research project that is expected to identify the origin of inno-vations and examine the entrepreneurs’ work to improve organi-zations, for example by seeking out new markets and gradually improving the efficiency of existing production.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, REGULATIONS AND DYNAMIC MARKETS The project focuses on socioeconomic effects of regulations regarding entrepreneurship, company and market dynamics, innovations, public sector and well-being.

Research ProjectsSWEDISH ECONOMIC FORUMSwedish Entrepreneurship Forum annually publishes Swedish Econo-mic Forum Report, in conjunction with the conference Swedish Econo-mic Forum. The aim is to contribute to an informed debate on current issues and to present viable policy recommendations based on entrepreneurship, small business and innovation research.

In the Swedish Economic Forum Report series:2018: Navigate under uncertainty - entrepreneurship, market experiments and experimental policy.2017: Swedish competitiveness - do we have problems with economic renewal capacity?2016: Immigration, Economic Integration and Entrepreneurship2015: Profits, Welfare and Entrepreneurship2014: A Functioning Labor Market – Key to Innovation and Knowledge-driven Growth2013: Institutions and Incentives for Innovation2012: Entrepreneurship Norms and the Business Cycle2011: An Innovation Policy Framework – One Step Further2010: An Innovation Strategy for Sweden2009: Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainable Development

Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum’s research is conducted in

such a way that the independence and quality of the research

cannot be questioned.

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RESEARCH NETWORK DEBATE - Entreprenörskapsforum€¦ · 27/11/2017 · Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, Head of Philanthropy Advisory, UBS, Johanna Palmberg, Research Director Swedish