Disseminates research on innovation, entrepreneurship and small business.

Disseminating research on innovation, entrepreneurship and small businesses

BANKRUPTCY: Professor’s 6 tips for small business owners in tough times

Many small businesses have gone bankrupt this year.
Professor gives tips to small business owners on how to think.

In the first half of 2024, around 6,000 Swedish companies went bankrupt – an increase of almost 40% compared to the previous year.
Professor Marie Karlsson-Tuula believes that many of these bankruptcies could have been avoided.
Here, she offers her top tips for small business owners to get through difficult times.

NEW RESEARCH | How student entrepreneurs learn from each other

Students learn from each other in front of a computer.

Social interactions are good for learning entrepreneurship.
This is shown by former Norsi doctoral student Ragnhild Nordeng Fauchald in her doctoral thesis where she has studied the learning that takes place when experienced student entrepreneurs supervise less experienced student entrepreneurs.

HELLO THERE! Emma Lappi – recipient of the Young Researcher Award 2024

Among other things, she has conducted research on how the experience of owning a business affects the subsequent career of the individual. Emma Lappi, PhD in Economics at Aarhus University, is the recipient of the Entrepreneurship Forum’s Young Researcher Award 2024 with a prize sum of SEK 150,000.

BOOK TIP | Super rich and equal

creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, teams, guidance

The idea that someone’s success is the cause of someone else’s problems is harmful to society and not based on facts.
This is according to Daniel Waldenström, professor of economics, who recently published the book Superrika och Jämlika.
In it, he reviews economic inequality and its historical development in Sweden and the rest of the Western world.

HELLO THERE! Henric Johnson – new rector at Blekinge Institute of Technology

He is a professor of computer science and has spent part of his working life in the United States.
Among other things, as a diplomat and head of research, innovation and higher education at the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. But after longing to return to Sweden and the archipelago of Karlskrona, he landed once again at Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH.
On September 1, Henric Johnson took over the helm as rector.

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