ACTIVITY REPORT

Contents

1. ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute: some key data

2. A round-up of the 2014-15 Academic Year

3. Activities in the 2014-15 Academic Year

3.1 Training 3.2 Research 3.3 Dissemination

4. EEI in the social networks

5. Our Team

6. Appendices

1. ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute: some key data

World ranking in Entrepreneurship

According to the first Financial Times ranking of the world's best MBA programmes, ESADE came 10th worldwide and 3rd in Europe (5th worldwide in support for entrepreneurs), together with universities such as Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and Babson.

Training

Core and elective courses in all key programmes for the BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration), MSc (Bologna Master of Science Degrees), MBA, EMBA (Executive MBA), and GEMBA (Global MBA)

4th Edition

Research

EGarage

ESADE BAN Investment Forums (Business Angels Network)

2. A round-up of the 2014-15 academic year

Director of the EEI

By Luisa Alemany, Director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute and lecturer

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The EEI team wish to thank:

3. Activities in the 2014-15 Academic Year

3.1. Training

Profile of students taking this course

Academic background

The 5th edition of the event in Spain during the 2014-15 Academic Year. The following 15 social enterprises were chosen:

It provides training and mentoring for university-trained entrepreneurs with disabilities who wish to start a business or boost entrepreneurial activity in a recent start-up

3.2. Research

3.3. Dissemination

A wide range of activities has been carried out at E-Garage during the 2014-15 Academic Year. enterprises were chosen:

Some key facts:

We should like to thank the following companies for sponsoring our activities:

Team dynamics Business model Investment

http://www.esade.edu/research-webs/esp/eei/formacion/programas-a-medida

During the 2014/15 Academic Year, the figures for Investment Forums were:

4. EEI in the social networks

4.1. Web

4.2. Newsletter

4.3. Twitter

5. Our team

Direction Management Case writter

Faculty

Collaborators

Researchers

6. Appendices

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Profile

DESCRIPTION

1. ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute is an interdisciplinary group compri-sing different profiles of researchers and academics from different fields such as Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Finance, Family Business, Social en-trepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs and others.

2. The ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute is becoming an internationalreference point in the field of entrepreneurship, family businesses, ven-ture capital, entrepreneurial creativity, as well as innovation and growth through an active educational model, a rigorous research program and an active presence in the social debate.

MAIN PARTICIPANTS gROUP

1. Luisa Alemany2. Eugenia Bieto3. Jan Brinckmann4. Xavier Busquets5. Alberto Gimeno6. Lotta Hassi8. Pedro Parada9. Marcel Planellas10. Dimo Ringov11. Javier Santiso12. Lourdes Urriolagoitia13. Alfred Vernis14. Jaume Villanueva

15. Luis Vives16. Sondos Abdelgawad17. Javier Capapé18. Myrto Chliova19. Francesco Di Lorenzo20. Jan Hohberger21. Heidi Kruger22. Ricardo Paiz23. Maria José Parada24. Silviya Svejenova25. Maika Valencia26. José Ernesto Amorós

MAIN RESEARCh QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

The main areas we investigate are:

1. Company creation2. High growth companies3. Financing: venture capital, F&F, private equity, business angels, etc.4. Entrepreneurial spirit in family firms5. Success factors for new entrepreneurs6. Creativity and innovation7. Internationalization processes,

strategic alliances and born global enterprises8. Corporate entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship9. Educating young people to become entrepreneurs10. Women entrepreneurs

Research Academic Year 2014-15

Academic Output

REfEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS PUBLIShED/ACCEPTED

1. Alemany, M. L. & Bultó, I. (2014). “‘Crowdfunding’: nueva forma de fi-nanciación para los emprendedores”. Harvard Deusto Business Review, (237), pp. 6-18.

2. Chliova, M., Brinckmann, J. & Rosenbusch , N. (2015). Is microcredita blessing for the poor? A meta-analysis examining development outco-mes and contextual considerations. Journal of Business Venturing, 30 (3), pp. 467-487 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.10.003.

3. gruber , M., kim , S. M. & Brinckmann, J. (2015). What is an attrac-tive business opportunity? An empirical study of opportunity evaluation decisions by technologists, managers, and entrepreneurs. Strategic En-trepreneurship Journal, DOI: 10.1002/sej.1196.

4. Dew, N., grichnik, D., Mayer-haug, k., Read, S. & Brinckmann, J.(2015). Situated entrepreneurial cognition. International Journal of Ma-nagement Reviews, 17 (2), pp. 143-164 DOI: 10.1111/ijmr.12051.

5. Brinckmann, J. & kim, S. M. (2015). Why we plan: The impact ofnascent entrepreneurs’ cognitive characteristics and human capital on business planning. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9 (9), pp. 153-166 DOI: 10.1002/sej.1197.

6. hohberger, J., Almeida, P. & Parada Balderrama, P. (2015). The di-rection of firm innovation: The contrasting roles of strategic alliances and individual scientific collaborations. Research Policy, 44 (2015), pp. 1473-1483 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.04.009.

7. Busquets Carretero, X. (forthcoming). Cisco: The Global Urbaniza-tion Initiative. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases.

8. Busquets Carretero, X. (forthcoming). Banco Sabadell acquires Ban-co CAM: leveraging a cloud computing strategy. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases.

9. Busquets Carretero, X. (2015). Discovery paths: exploring emergen-ce and IT evolutionary design in cross-border M&As. Analysing grupo Santander’s acquisition of abbey (2004-2009). European Journal of In-formation Systems, 24 (2), pp. 1-24.

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REfEREED CONfERENCE PAPERS PUBLIShED/ACCEPTED

1. Scarlata, M., Zackarakis, A. & Alemany, M. L. (2015, June). En-trepreneurial orientation in social investing: The influence of founders and board members human capital diversity. In 2015 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Babson Park: Babson College.

2. Iñesta Codina, A. & valencia Silva, M. (2015, July). The global integrative module: A space in the curriculum of undergraduate, MSc and MBA pro-grams to develop future managers’ intercultural competence. In 31st EGOS Colloquium. Berlin: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).

3. Busquets Carretero, X. “Multiasistencia: digitally enabled business model innovations”. In NACRA 2014 Annual Meeting (2014, octr+ober).

Other Academic Outputs

BOOkS, MONOgRAPhS, STUDIES

1. Planellas Arán, M. & Muni, A. (2015). Las decisiones estrategicas. Barcelona; Buenos Aires; Santiago: Penguin Random House.

2. Sharma, P., Yusof, M., Parada Balderrama, M., DeWitt, R. & Auletta, N. (Eds.), (2014). The Global Booklet, Volume II. [S.I.]: STEP Project.

BOOk ChAPTERS

1. Auletta, N., DeWitt, R., Parada Balderrama, M., Sharma, P. & Yusof, M. (2014). “How are entrepreneurial family businesses sustained over time?”. In Sustaining entrepreneurial family businesses: Developing the core, ex-panding the boundaries by Sharma, P., Yusof, M., Parada Balderrama, M. & DeWitt, R. (Eds.),Auletta, N., (pp. 3-12). [S.I.]: STEP Project.

CASES

1. Planellas, M. & Svejenova, S. (2014) Ferran Adrià y la transformación de elBulli (Harvard Business Publishing –HBP-).

2. vernis, A. & Urriolagoitia, L. (2015) La Fageda (B) (Harvard Business Publishing –HBP-).

3. Planellas, M. & Urriolagoitia, L. (forthcoming) Privalia Harvard Busi-ness Publishing –HBP-).

Developing:1. vernis, A. & Urrialagoitia, L. Roba amiga

2. vinaixa, J. & Urrialagoitia, L. Biocentury (A)

3. vinaixa, J. & Urrialagoitia, L. Biocentury (B)

4. vinaixa, J. & Urrialagoitia, L. Biocentury (C)

5. vinaixa, J. & Urrialagoitia, L. Biocentury (Epilogue)

6. villanueva, J. & Urrialagoitia, L. Fluent systems

7. Planellas, M. & Urrialagoitia, L. elBulli Foundation

8. Bieto, E. & & Urrialagoitia, L. Scytl

PUBLICATIONS IN OThER JOURNALS

1. Alemany, M.L. & Urriolagoitia Doria Medina, L. (2014) Iniciativa Em-prendedora y Jóvenes en España. ICE, Revista del Ministerio de Econo-mía y Competitividad n. 881, pp- 101-120

2. Alemany, M. L. & vernis Domènech, A. (2015). Momentum Project: buscando el equilibrio entre la creación de valor económico y valor so-cial. ICADE: Revista de las Facultades de Derecho y Ciencias Económi-cas y Empresariales, (94), pp. 89-117.

3. Planellas Arán, M. & Urriolagoitia Doria Medina, L. (2015). Privalia, rompiendo mitos en el “e-commerce”. Harvard Deusto Márketing y Ven-tas, (129), pp. 48-54.

4. Busquets Carretero, X. (2014). La agenda digital del CEO . ESADE Alumni, (126), pp. 11-15.

PARTICIPATION IN OThER CONfERENCES

1. Capape Aguilar, J., Aguilera vaqués, R. & Santiso guimaras, J. (2014, September). Sovereign wealth funds: The perfect strangers. In XLIX Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2014. Lima: Consejo Latinoamericano de Es-cuelas de Administración (CLADEA)., Barcelona: ESADE.

2. Iñesta Codina, A., valencia Silva, M., Rovira Llobera, R., Mària Serrano, J., Sayeras Maspera, J., Serlavós Serra, R. & et al. (2014, September). The Global Integrative Module: Training future managers¿ knowledge in-tegration, multicultural and social responsibility competences. In XLIX Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2014. Lima: Consejo Latinoamericano de Es-cuelas de Administración (CLADEA)., Barcelona: ESADE.

3. Amorós Espinosa, J. & Poblete, C. (2014, September). Contexto regio-nal del emprendimiento: lecciones de España y Chile. In XLIX Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2014. Lima: Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración (CLADEA)., Barcelona: ESADE.

4. Amorós Espinosa, J., Cristi, O. & Naudé, W. (2014, September). Entre-preneurship and well-being: A cross-country analysis. In XLIX Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2014. Lima: Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración (CLADEA)., Barcelona: ESADE.

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5. Mancilla, C. & Amorós Espinosa, J. (2014, September). En la etapa del proceso de creación de una iniciativa empresarial, ¿qué tan iguales son los emprendedores?. In XLIX Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2014. Lima: Consejo La-tinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración (CLADEA)., Barcelona: ESADE.

6. Busquets Carretero, X. (2015, July). A theory of teleological attraction: exploting sources of energy in corporate entrepreneurship.

7. “From Charity to sustainable social Enterprise: The transformation process

of Roba Amiga” ABIS Annual Coloquium 2015 en Octubre en Milán.

WORkINg PAPERS

1. Alemany, M. L. & Urriolagoitia Doria Medina, L. (Forthcoming). INICIATI-VA EMPRENDEDORA Y JÓVENES EN ESPAÑA. (N/A), pp. N/A-N/A

Economic Sustainability

ADDITIONAL SOURCES Of fUNDINg

1. Endowment Banco Santander

2. Endowment Agrolimen

Institutional Contribution

PhD STUDENTS SUPERvISED

1. Myrto Chliova – PhD student (JB) researching the effectiveness of microfinance as a tool for poverty alleviation, the multiple non-financial motivations of entrepreneurs, and finally the creation of the field of so-cial entrepreneurship and the institutional entrepreneurship exercised by pioneers in this area.

2. heidi kruger – PhD student (PP).

3. fernando Paiz Mendoza - PhD student (JB). Thesis: Antecedents to Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition.

4. Parada Balderrama, M. (2015). Developing governance structures in family firms: From adoption to institutionalization (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Jönköping: Jönköping International Business School.

5. felizitas Eichinger in Cooperation with Dietmar Grichnik from WHU Vallendar. PhD thesis defended successfully (JB).

6. Diana kapsa in Cooperation with Dietmar Grichnik from WHU Vallen-dar. PhD thesis defended successfully (JB).

7. Luv Singh in Cooperation with Dietmar Grichnik from WHU Vallendar. PhD thesis defended successfully (JB).

8. Maria fantetti – PhD student (JB) in Cooperation with Dietmar Grich-nik from WHU Vallendar.OThER RELEvANT ACTIvITIES

1. Jan Brinckmann: Member of the Review Board of the Journal of Busi-ness Venturing and the Board of the Entrepreneurship Theory and Prac-tice: the best entrepreneurship specialty journals. Jan Brinckmann is an Advisory Board Member of the European Commission’s FACE Entrepre-neurship (Failure Aversion Change in Europe) project.

2. Marcel Planellas miembro del Editorial Advisory Board de Academia, Revista Latinoamericana de Administración (ARLA), editada por Emerald y que es el journal académico internacional de CLADEA.

3. Jan Brinckmann: Director of ESADE’s MBA Entrepreneurship Lab and Director of ESADE support of KIC InnoEnergy Iberia Accelerator.

4. Jan Brinckmann: visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship Elective in MBA program at University of St. Gallen.

5. Maika valencia: Associate director of The Global Integrative Module. An online learning experience awarded by the GMAC MET Fund.

6. Maika valencia: Coordinator and co-author of the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students‘Survey (GUESSS)-Spain 2013. An inter-national research project lead by the St. Gallen University.

Dissemination & Diffusion

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCh NETWORkS

1. EgOS2. EvPA (European Venture Philanthropy Association)3. ffI (Family Firm Institute)4. IfERA5. STEP Project6. CEMS Faculty Group7. EfER (European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research)

OThER MEDIA PRESENCE

Constant interaction with the media in different domains.

The ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute wants to thank Banco Santander

and Agrolimen for its support to the research activities of the Institute.

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