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

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

Arrange meeting places, make research accessible

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

Brings together researchers in networks and programmes

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

International networking – make Sweden visible internationally

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.

Pontus Braunerhjelm

www.entreprenorskapsforum.se/eng