The
world's most prestigious award in entrepreneurship and small business
research, the International Award of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Research, has this year been presented to Dr. Zoltan J. Acs and Dr.
David B. Audretsch.
Dr. Zoltan J. Acs and Dr. David B.
Audretsch have been presented with the International Award for
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research 2001. The award consists of
the statuette, "The Hand of God", created by Carl Milles and $50,000.00
This is the sixth time the
International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research has
been presented. The award has been instituted by the Swedish Board for
Industrial and Technical Development, NUTEK, in collaboration with Telia
AB and the
Swedish Foundation
for Small Business Research (FSF).
The Award is presented annually to a
person who has made a scientific contribution to theory-building
concerning at least one of the following areas: entrepreneurship and
small business development, the role and importance of new firm
formation, and the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in economic development.
The Scientific Council of FSF states
the following motive for their choice:
Together as a research team as well as each in his own right, Dr. Zoltan
J. Acs and Dr. David B. Audretsch have made a number of significant
contributions to entrepreneurship and small business research. In their
research they have provided empirical analyses of an impressive number
of important questions concerning the role of small firms in the
economy, and from this body of research their collective seminal work on
the role of small firms in innovation deserves special recognition. Two
issues should be highlighted: the systematic analysis of how this role
varies depending on the characteristics of industries, and also how
conclusions concerning the role of small firms in innovation are
sensitive to the type of measure of innovative activity applied.
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See
David in Sweden
(in Swedish)
David visited Halmstad, Sweden on June 7, 2001 as part of his tour
of Sweden. |
Apart from their own empirical work,
Professors Acs and Audretsch have made an important contribution to an
open and critical assessment and discussion of the role of small firms
in the economy. While this involves organizing several prestigious
conferences and editing of book volumes, the single most important
contribution of this kind is their pioneering of the Small Business
Economics journal as a high quality outlet for small business economic
research. This achievement alone has significantly contributed to
advancing knowledge development in the last decade.
Dr. Zoltan J. Acs, Professor of
Entrepreneurship, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore,
USA and Dr. David B. Audretsch, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development
and Director, Institute for Development Strategies, School of Public and
Environmental Affairs,
in Swedish: prize
announcement
For further
information:
Anders Lundström,
FSF, telephone +46 -8- 618 16 36, e-mail lundstrom@fsf.se
Lotta
Stare, FSF, telephone +46-8-618 16 98, e-mail stare@fsf.se
PRESS Release 2001-01-23
