Ameritech
Research Scholar
A. (Sander) R.M. Wennekers was born in Voorburg, the
Netherlands in 1947.
After completing gymnasium in 1965 he spent a year in
Whittier, California as an AFS-student. He has studied quantitative economics at
the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and has now been active as a professional
economist for about 25 years.
After working at CPB, the main economic adviser to the
Dutch government, he since 1988 holds a management position with EIM Small
Business Research and Consultancy. In 1992-1994 he was responsible for the
scientific supervision of the first two annual reports of the European
Observatory for SMEs. Since 1996 he is in charge of the national research
program of the Netherlands in the field of SMEs and entrepreneurship.
In his own research Sander is presently active at the
crossroads of entrepreneurship and macro-economics. Two of his recent
publications are:
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Sander Wennekers,
1999, The revival of entrepreneurship
in the Netherlands, in: P.J.J. Welfens and C. Graack (Hrsg.),
Technologieorientierte Unternehmensgründungen und Mittelstandspolitik in
Europa, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag |
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Sander Wennekers and
Roy Thurik, 1999, Linking
Entrepreneurship and Economic
Growth, Small Business Economics, Vol. 13, pp 27-55. |
Little Known Facts About Sander:
| As a real Dutchman, Sander likes to ride his bicycle and to go ice skating.
What he likes even more is to go hiking in the mountains (for which he has to travel abroad). |
| Sander is an avid reader of history books, and he particularly likes to
visit medieval towns and excavations of ancient cities. |
| Sander tries to be an active member of the royal male voice choir "Die Haghe Sanghers", where he sings with the (second) tenors. |
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