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
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
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
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
Pontus Braunerhjelm
Managing Director, 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 Foreign Institute, i.a.
www.entreprenorskapsforum.se/eng