Babson faculty members are leading providers of global entrepreneurship intellectual capital. Their pathbreaking entrepreneurship research defines, shapes, and advances the field.

Babson, in partnership with the London School of Business, conducts the world’s largest and longest standing, globally focused entrepreneurship research, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). In 2005, we launched the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) project. The STEP Project explores the entrepreneurial process within family businesses and practices for building legacies of social and economic wealth across generations.

Link: Babson College

Die Bedeutung der Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KMU) für die schweizerische Wirtschaft ist heute unbestritten; die weitaus meisten Unternehmen sind KMU, sie stellen, wie in nahezu allen Volkswirtschaften der Welt, zwei Drittel der Arbeitsplätze. An der HSG wurde die Bedeutung der KMU früh erkannt. Vor mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten (1946) entstand deshalb das "Schweizerische Institut für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen" (KMU-HSG).
Das Institut widmet sich als einziges Institut auf dieser Ebene in der Schweiz - ausschliesslich - der Förderung von Klein- und Mittelunternehmen und forscht auf den Gebieten KMU, Family Business und Entrepreneurship.

Link: KMU-HSG

ESADE is a modern, outward-looking academic institution, which contributes to the development of competent, critically minded individuals from its two educational areas: the ESADE Business School and the ESADE Law School. Through its historical links with the corporate world and society, it has become a lively platform for debate and social involvement.

Link: ESADE

Throughout its 125 years of history, HEC School of Management has continually attracted a special kind of individual highly capable and talented, innovative, entrepreneurial, ambitious and open minded. HEC ‘s aim is to train the world leaders of tomorrow.

Located in the heart of the thriving, diverse Paris business community, the school has earned international acclaim for its superior programs, groundbreaking research, and outstanding student body.

Link: Haute École de Commerce Paris

 

Università Bocconi, founded in 1902, was the first Italian university to grant a degree in economics.

For a century, Bocconi has played a leading role in Italy\’s social and economic modernization. It has remained true to its founding values of being a major research university, with democratic values and open to the world, as well as financially and politically independent.

At the outset of the 21st century, Bocconi is contributing to the advancement of European higher education by teaching business and economic knowledge to prospective managers and researchers from all over the world.

Link: Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

 

Jönköping University is characterised by focused profiles, an international dimension in all activities, an entrepreneurial spirit and collaboration with surrounding society.

Jönköping University Foundation is one of three independent institutions of higher education (not state-owned) in Sweden offering postgraduate programmes. Jönköping University operates on the basis of an agreement with the Government and are obliged to follow the statutes, ordinances and regulations relevant to the higher education sector.

 

Link: Jönköping International Business School

Bilkent University - the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey - was founded on October 20, 1984, by Professor İhsan Doğramacı, M.D., with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. The name "Bilkent" exemplifies this aim, since it is an acronym of "bilim kenti": Turkish for "city of learning and science." The University campus is located off the main highway to Eskişehir about 12 km. (10 miles) west of the center of Ankara, and covers an area of more than 500 hectares (1200 acres).

Link: Bilkent University

The University of Edinburgh\’s Academic structure is based on 3 Colleges containing a total of 22 Schools.

 

Link: University of Edingburgh

The University of Antwerp (UA) is characterised by its high standards in education, internationally competitive research and entrepreneurial approach. It was founded in 2003 after the merger of the three universities that were previously known as RUCA, UFSIA and UIA, the university's roots go back to 1852. The University of Antwerp has approximately 11.000 students, which makes it the third largest university in Flanders. Over 1.000 of these students - exchange students not included - are from foreign countries, with a majority of EU countries. In order to face the challenges posed by the internationalization of European education and research, the University is part of the Antwerp University Association (AUHA).

Link: Universiteit Antwerpen

University College Dublin (UCD) is a dynamic, modern university where cutting-edge research and scholarship provide a stimulating intellectual environment - the ideal surroundings for learning and discovery.

For over 150 years, UCD has produced graduates of remarkable distinction including famous surgeons, architects, entrepreneurs and five of Ireland’s Taoisigh (Prime Ministers). Perhaps the best known of all its graduates is the writer James Joyce, who completed his Bachelor of Arts at the university in 1902.

Established in 1854, the university played a key role in the history of the modern Irish State and today it plays a leading part in shaping Ireland’s future. As Ireland forges a new identity through relationships with international partners, the university will adopt an increasingly international outlook.

Link: University of Dublin

Family business research, theory and practice are advancing rapidly. The field has
reached a stage where there is a need for further quality improvement through
enhanced collaboration and accelerated learning from best practices. ifera, the
International Family Enterprise Research Academy facilitates this process. Its vision is to be the driving force of an international network ensuring that family business, as a multi-disciplinary field, becomes a leading field in business research.

Link: IFERA