NEW RESEARCH PROJECT | The role of small businesses in the green transition
For the coming two years, researchers at Norrlandsnavet, Luleå University of Technology, will study the role of small businesses in the green transition in northern Sweden. Debadrita Panda and Johan Frishammar take on the project.
Three years of Kamprad’s 100 million (SEK) investment in companies located in northern Sweden
In the fall of 2020, in the midst of Covid, Norrlandsnavet was launched. Now, after just over three years, the Kamprad Family Foundation has done a review of Norlandsnavet and its activities to increase the competitiveness of small businesses in Norrland – and the Foundation is very pleased with the results.
INTERVIEW | 5 questions to Ebba Busch on gender inequality in entrepreneurship
During the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth’s (Tillväxtverkets) event in Stockholm on International Women’s Day, earlier today, Minister for Energy, Business and Industry Ebba Busch presented the assignments that the government is giving to the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth to overcome unequal entrepreneurship. Esbri had a chat with the Minister.
EXPERT PANEL | Unequal entrepreneurship
Twice as many men as women run businesses in Sweden. What are the reasons for unequal entrepreneurship? What concerns and bright spots do researchers see in terms of gender equality in entrepreneurship and small business? And what needs to be done to make it more equal? We ask an expert panel of three professors and one associate professor.
EXPERT PANEL | Women’s entrepreneurship – Lucia Naldi
Twice as many men as women run businesses in Sweden. What are the reasons for this? And what are the bright spots for more equal entrepreneurship, according to the researchers? This week we ask an expert panel of three professors and one associate professor. Lucia Naldi, Professor of Business Administration at Jönköping University, is the fourth in line. She has conducted research on entrepreneurial mothers and fathers.
EXPERT PANEL | Women’s entrepreneurship – Malin Malmström
Twice as many men as women run businesses in Sweden. What are the reasons for this? And what are the bright spots for more equal entrepreneurship, according to the researchers? This week we ask an expert panel of three professors and one associate professor. Third out is Malin Malmström, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology. She argues that public funding needs to be redirected to women entrepreneurs in women-dominated sectors.
EXPERT PANEL | Women’s entrepreneurship – Magdalena Markowska
Twice as many men as women run businesses in Sweden. What are the reasons for this? And what are the bright spots for more equal entrepreneurship, according to the researchers? This week we ask an expert panel of three professors and one associate professor. Today it is the turn of Magdalena Markowska, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Umeå University. According to her, the key to equal entrepreneurship is an equal society in general.
EXPERT PANEL | Women’s entrepreneurship – Carin Holmquist
Twice as many men as women run businesses in Sweden. What are the reasons for this? And what are the bright spots for more equal entrepreneurship, according to the researchers? This week we ask an expert panel of three professors and one associate professor. First up is Carin Holmquist, Professor Emerita of Entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Economics. According to her, entrepreneurship is not a gender issue.
WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 4 strategies women use to tackle inequality
The white man is the norm in entrepreneurship in Sweden. This creates major challenges for many women entrepreneurs, according to new research at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – which also found four strategies women use to deal with inequality.
HELLO THERE! Magnus Mähring – expert on artificial intelligence
AI is here to stay and no one knows where the new technology will be in 10 years. But it is clear that it will change the daily lives of many small businesses and start-ups. So how will entrepreneurs benefit from AI? And what are the risks? Esbri asked AI expert Magnus Mähring, Professor of […]
