Newswise — Entrepreneurship educators and researchers from around the world will gather to study vital issues now facing entrepreneurs during the Third Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Research Conference in Washington, D.C., October 1-3, 2007.
The Conference was organized by GEM U.S. -- GEM conducts the largest study of entrepreneurial activity in the world -- Babson College, the top-ranked school for Entrepreneurship Education; and George Mason University School of Public Policy.
"Entrepreneurial actions fuel innovation and economic development around the world," says Candida Brush, Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College, "GEM's Research Conference is the premier forum for leading scholars worldwide to consider timely issues and dig deeper into the factors facilitating and constraining all aspects of entrepreneurship."
"This year's GEM Conference is a milestone!" says Professor Zoltan Acs, George Mason University, "It examines some of the most important issues confronting entrepreneurs worldwide; it brings together some of the best minds in entrepreneurship research; and engages the Washington policy community in a meaningful dialogue with entrepreneurship researchers." Conference Presentations on Topics in Entrepreneurship include:
Formal and Informal Finance for Entrepreneurship--Entrepreneurial Aspirations, Motivations, and their Drivers--Financing Entrepreneurial Activity in Chile--Family Businesses vs. Non-Family Businesses--The Connection Between Informal Venture Capital and Business Growth
High-Technology Firms and Growth--Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and National-Level Entrepreneurial Activity: Seven-Year Panel Study--The Entrepreneurial Profile Viewed from an Innovation Perspective: A Comparative Analysis Between Latin-American and Iberian Countries--Emergence of Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship in Ireland and Wales--The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment--Knowledge Spillovers and Entrepreneurs' Export Orientation
Necessity vs. Opportunity Entrepreneurship--Parallel Early Entrepreneurship in Russia: Evidence of the GEM 2006 and 2007 Adult Population Surveys--Environmental Factors that Influence the Entrepreneurial Capacity--Need or Opportunity Entrepreneurship--Entrepreneurship Policy as Institutionalized and Powerful Myths
Regional Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Activity--Understanding Regional Variation in Entrepreneurial Activity and Entrepreneurial Activity and Entrepreneurial Attitude in Europe--The Entrepreneurial Advantage of Global Cities--Individual and Country-Level Determinants of Growth Aspiration in New Ventures--The Entrepreneurial Startup Process in GEM Countries: Turning Potential into Entrepreneurial Activity--Entrepreneurship and Competitive Dynamics in Latin America
The Entrepreneur--The Influence of Social Network Structure on Entrepreneurial Participation: Gender Differences Studies Across 47 Countries--Cultural Factors as Explanatory Variables of Existing Differences Between Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship in Spain: A GEM Data Based Analysis--Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Birth Stages of Immigrant and Native Individuals from Spain--Social Interactions, Family Antecedents and Entrepreneurial Performance
Social Policy and Entrepreneurship--Exploring the Relationships Between Conventional Business Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in Brazil--The Coupling Between Entrepreneurship and Public Policy--Entrepreneurship in the Emirates—an Expatriate national Comparison--Institutional Logics: Gender and Business Creation Across 13 GEM CountriesSpecial Event Panels:--Entrepreneurship in South America--Entrepreneurship and the Practice of Economic Development
Co-sponsors: matt.org; Mercatus Center, George Mason University; Springer Science-business Media; Center for Women's Business Research; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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