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2009 Conference Keynote Speaker

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PROFESSOR SARA CARTER, University of Strathclyde, Business School

Professor Carter's research focuses on entrepreneurship and the small firms sector. A core theme of her work examines the issues facing different entrepreneurial groups, particularly women, rural business owners, portfolio entrepreneurs and the strategic performance barriers affecting small firms. This work has been supported by grants from a range of funding organisations, including the Association of Chartered Certified accountants (ACCA), DTi Small Business Service, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Federation of Small Businesses, Scottish Enterprise and the Centre for Women's Business Research in Washington DC. More

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PROFESSOR EMERITUS BILL BYGRAVE, Babson College, Centre for Entrpreneurial studies

Dr. Bygrave joined The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College in 1985 and directed it from 1993 to 1999. He was also the director of the annual Babson College-Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference in 1994-1995 and 2001-2003. He teaches and researches entrepreneurship, specifically financing of startup and growing ventures. Dr. Bygrave spent the 1992-1993 academic year at INSEAD where he introduced an MBA course in Entrepreneurial Finance and led a pan-European team from eight nations that studied entrepreneurs' attitudes toward realizing value and harvesting their companies. One of the outcomes of that research was the initiative that led to the founding of EASDAQ (the European equivalent of NASDAQ). In 1997, he and Michael Hay at the London Business School started the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which examines the entrepreneurial competitiveness of nations. More


 



 

 

 
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