Emotional intelligence – one of the most important assets as an entrepreneur
During an ESBRI-organized webinar last week, Professor Dean Shepherd presented some key practical advice you should follow to become a successful entrepreneur.
Cultivating your emotional intelligence, for example, seems to be crucial for entrepreneurial success.
BANKRUPTCY: Professor’s 6 tips for small business owners in tough times
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
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
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.
NEW RESEARCH | Government crisis support during the pandemic a fiasco for small businesses – “Too complicated”
Government support for short-time work during the pandemic was meant to save businesses from bankruptcy.
However, the cumbersome application process was more of a nail in the coffin for the smallest companies.
NEW RESEARCH | Software development drives innovation – 3 things to consider
Many companies complement physical products with digital services, for example through apps.
Some choose to develop the software in-house, others outsource the work to suppliers.
But which option is best?
Social innovation | How the “Mentormamma” program fared in Sweden
How can social innovations be transferred between contexts?
Researchers at Uppsala University have studied a method for working with maternal and child health in socially vulnerable situations.
WINNERS | Grand Slam for Sweden at the world’s largest management research conference
More than 10,000 researchers from around the world recently gathered in Chicago, USA, at the world’s largest and foremost conference in management – the Academy of Management (AoM) annual conference. In the field of entrepreneurship, ENT Division, several Swedish-linked researchers received awards.