When big innovation promises crash, both the technology and the promise to customers must change
Radical innovations are often associated with great promises to customers and investors. But what happens after a public and deadly failure that shatters both technology and trust? A new study examines the Virgin Galactic spacecraft crash. The researchers show that the company needed to both make the technology safer and reframe what they promised the market.
A historical retrospective: The King inaugurated Esbri
29 years ago, Esbri was inaugurated by King Carl XVI Gustaf. Since then, its mission has remained the same: to disseminate research-based knowledge about entrepreneurship, innovation and small business to a wider audience.
How to make entrepreneurship education more gender equal
Women are still heavily underrepresented in entrepreneurship education worldwide – despite efforts to promote diversity. A new international study reveals the hidden barriers in current programs and presents concrete steps for more inclusive education.
Don’t protect everything: how start-ups should think about IP
All start-ups have intangible assets: technology, data, designs, customer knowledge, contracts and brands. In her thesis, Sarah van Santen shows that the question is not only what to protect. Equally important is knowing what can be shared, with whom, when and how.
Hello there, Hans Landström – new honorary doctor with focus on financing and history of entrepreneurship
Hans Landström has recently been awarded an honorary doctorate in innovation science at Halmstad University, a university with which he has had close ties since the late 1980s. His research has mainly focused on how new and small businesses are financed, and on how the field of entrepreneurship has developed.
Handelsbanken research foundations award record grants for economic research
Handelsbanken’s research foundations recently distributed SEK 155 million to economic research, the largest distribution to date in the program category. Of the support, SEK 16.2 million went to eleven projects in entrepreneurship and innovation, corresponding to just over ten percent of the total award.
Family values follow entrepreneurs as they move to Europe
What happens to our values when we move across continents and start over? A new study shows that migrant entrepreneurs carry more than just their entrepreneurial experience. Family patterns and social obligations from their home countries continue to shape the way businesses are built and run in Europe – often in surprising ways.
Hallo there, Vinit Parida – top Swedish scientist on global list
Entrepreneurship and innovation researchers dominate the Swedish part of a global ranking of top researchers in business administration. In second place and first in Sweden among entrepreneurship researchers is Vinit Parida, professor at Luleå University of Technology.
When entrepreneurship benefits some – but excludes others
Entrepreneurship is often portrayed as open to anyone with a good idea and great drive. But new research shows that the industry that has emerged to support entrepreneurs also risks reinforcing inequalities.
Future innovators are inspired by nature
The ability to observe, identify and understand nature is a source of innovation. According to Professor Seirian Sumner at University College London, fostering the innovators of the future requires children to become more knowledgeable about nature.