NEW STUDY | Newly minted intrapreneurs ready for employment
Confident problem-solving team players. That’s how intrapreneurial students can be succinctly described after graduation – and companies are happy to hire them. Many graduates of entrepreneurship programs choose to work for established companies rather than start their own business. Employees with entrepreneurial skills, such as problem-solving and business acumen, are known as intrapreneurs. This is […]
Researcher critical of innovation fluff in municipalities – “Put yourself in the driver’s seat”
Municipalities are keen to innovate to keep up with and influence societal developments. But often the process is abstract and without clear direction. Erica Eneqvist’s thesis provides concrete suggestions on how the work can be organized. A local technology company has received external funding to test a sustainable technological solution in the field of mobility. […]
NEW DOCTORAL THESIS | How Stenbeck managed to deregulate the telecom market
In the 1980s, Jan Stenbeck and his Comvik broke up Televerket’s monopoly on the Swedish telecoms market. How did he succeed? A new thesis explores the role of entrepreneurship in institutional change. Veteran Televerket had enjoyed a monopoly since the 19th century. It was an authority and an established player with sole access to the […]
Economic financing in transition
Professor Amar Bhidé from Tufts University, USA, gave an Estrad lecture entitled “Financing the Venturesome Economy” on November 10, 2010. Bhidé believes that those interested in entrepreneurship should also be interested in our financial system. When the financial system collapses as it has done, it hurts not only financiers but the whole society. No one is spared.