Policy Forum Day

Welcome and Opening

• Professor David Smallbone, President , International Council for Small Business

Opening Session - Global challenges, current trends and starting points for policy making.

• Moderator: Deputy Managing Director, Ulrika Stuart Hamilton, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum
• Professor Pontus Braunerhjelm, Managing Director of Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, on Global trends and challenges
• Dr Göran Marklund, VINNOVA, on Challenges and innovation - Global trends and strategies in policy implementation
• Dr Martin Lyes, Enterprise Ireland, on Views on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SME policies.

Session A.1. - IPREG
Presentations of the costs of SME and entrepreneurship policy as well as the context for different economies. Presentations of country reports of Sweden, Poland, Belgium (Flanders), Austria and Spain.

• Moderator: Professor Anders Lundström, Project Manager, Growth Analysis

Speakers: Dr Peter Vikström, Growth Analysis, Ms Els Vermander, Department of Economy, Science and Innovation, Flanders, Belgium, dr Pavel Glodek, The Foundation for Promotion of Entrepreneurship and dr Matthias Fink, Vienna University of Economic and Business, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Session A.2. - GEM
Results of 2010 study. Special topic: innovation measures built in GEM, and why they differ across countries.

• Moderator: Dr Kristie Seawright.
• Participants: Jonathan Levie on special GEM innovations survey, Strathclyde University, UK, Donna Kelly, Babson College, USA, José Ernesto Amoros, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
• Lars Jagrén,

Session B.1. - World Bank Report  "Doing Business".

• Dr Svetlana Bagaudinova, World Bank
• Economic Effects of Regulatory Burden, Dr Johan Eklund, Jönköping International Business School
• Comments and discussion: Professors Paul Reynolds and David Storey

Session B 2. - SME policies in developing countries.
Cases from Egypt, Singapore, China and Argentina.

• Moderator: Professor Lois Stevenson
• Policy Framework for fostering entrepreneurship development in Egypt. Mr Amr Gohar, President Middle East Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (MCSBE)
• Policy Challenges for Tunisian Entrepreneurship and the Implecations of the GEM-Tunisia Findings, Professor Faysal Mansouri, University of Sousse and GEM-Tunisia Team Leader
• SME and Entrepreneurship Policy: The Latin American Perspective, Professor Rodrigo Varela, Columbia
• Ruben Ascua, ICB-affiliate, Argentina

Session C.1.- SME policy in Japan and South Korea.
Responding to a crisis: Japanese SME:s after the earthquake. Innovation in a mature economy.

• Moderator: Dr Jenni Nordborg, Vinnova
• Mr Maeda, Chairman and CEO, Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan
• Elettra Ronchi, OECD task force
• Professor Sang-Chul Park, Gothenburg University
• Professor Kwan Hee Yoo, Business School, Korea University

Session C.2. - Perspectives on Small Business Act in US and the EU.

• Mr Denny Dennis, Senior Fellow at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
• Mr Stefan Fölster, Head Economist at Swedish Enterprise

Session D.1: New Firm Creation: A Global Assesment of National Factors

• Professor Paul Reynolds

Session D. 2: Presentations of Global Entrepreneurship Development Index.
Measuring entrepreneurial behaviour and output across countries.

• Professor Zoltan Acs.

What can be learned? What do we take with us into the main ICSB conference?

• Moderator: Dan Hjalmarsson, Director General, Growth Analysis
• David Storey, Svetlana Baugaudinova, Kristie Seawright and Elisabeth Gatewood