Gathering of Swedish scholars in entrepreneurship - 18 June 2019

This “campfire” event welcomed distinguished entrepreneurship scholars with a connection to Sweden, to come together and celebrate Sweden’s success in entrepreneurship scholarship while looking at how we can continue to contribute to entrepreneurship research in the future.

The theme of the gathering was Building the future: Sweden's role in building global sustainable entrepreneurship scholarship. The Gathering was held in the Stockholm Archipelago on the 18^th and 19^th of June and welcomed international scholars with connection to Sweden as well as Swedish researchers active in Sweden and abroad. Through roundtables, open discussions and conversations ideas were shared on how to jointly develop and strengthen the community of entrepreneurship scholars.

The Gathering was jointly hosted by the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Center for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development at the SSE House of Innovation with Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES). Also part of the planning committee were Professor Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University, and Professor Per Davidson, Queensland University of Technology.

Entrepreneurship scholars from the following institutions attended the gathering: Lund U., Halmstad U., Linnaeus U., Chalmers U. of Technology, Jönköping International Business School, Linköping U., Uppsala U., Luleå U. of Technology, Gothenburg U., Blekinge Institute of Technology, Swedish U. of Agricultural Sciences, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Örebro U., Stockholm U, Royal Institute of Technology, Umeå U., Queensland U. of Technology and Syracuse U.