Plenary Sessions

(draft program)

Opening of the ICSB 2011

Facilitator: Ulrika Stuart Hamilton, Dep. Managing Director of Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

Maud Olofsson, Swedish minister for Enterprise and Energy
Professor David Smallbone, President of ICSB
Catherine Swift, International Small Business Congress

Award Ceremony
Professor Steven Klepper, the 2011 winner of Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, will recieve the prize during a ceremony with HRH Prince Daniel, the president of the Award Committee, professor Pontus Braunerhjelm, Managing Director of Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Anneli Sjögren, Director, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth

Keynote Speech by Professor Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and co-founder and Director of the Gapminder Foundation. Rosling's research has focused on links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Rosling was listed as one of the 100 leading global thinkers in 2009 by Foreign Policy Magazine and is internationally recognized as an inspiring public speaker.

• Thursday June, 16
• 11:00-12.30

Moderator: Lois Stevenson, President and Chief Entreprenologist. LASMA Consulting, Ottowa, Canada
Speakers: Professor Bengt Johannisson,Jönköping International Business School and Linneaus University, former Global Award winner, Dr Rosa Murguri-Mwololo, International Develoment Consultant, Kenya, Professor Franco Malerba, Bocconi University and Director of KITes (Center on Kniwledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies, Italy

• Thursday June, 16
• 11:45-12:30

Introduction: Professor Thomas Cooney, President ECSB

Moderator: Per Unckel, Stockholm County Governor
Keynote speech: Dame Cheryll Sotheran, Director of Creative Industries, New Zealand
Comments: Karin Nilsdotter, Director Spaceport Sweden

Opening of Baltic Business Arena:

Dirk Ahner, Director General, DGRegio, European Commission

• Friday June, 17
• 9:00-9:30

Moderator:Professor Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand
Speakers: Professor David Storey, Univerity of Sussex and former Global Award Winner, Paul Reynolds, Scholar of Management and Entrepreneurship Research, George Mason University, USA, Elizabeth Gatewood, Director, NSF Partners for Innovation at Wake Forstes University, USA and former Global Award Winner

• Friday June, 17
• 9:30-10:30

Moderator: Rohana Ramly, Chief Operating Officer of SME Corp, Malaysia
Speakers: Dr Elisabeth Garnsey, Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, Kazuhiro Iwata, President of Koiwa Bond Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Dr Linley Chiwona Karltun, Ultuna Agricultural University, Professor Zoltan Acs, George Mason University, former Global Award Winner

• Saturday June, 18
• 11:00-11:45

Moderator: Professor Anders Lundström, President of the local organising committee for ICSB 2011
Speakers: Cecilia Berg, CEO Mando, Sweden Caterina Berbenni-Rehm, CEO PROMI@service, Luxemburg
Comments: Professor Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA and former Global Award Winner, Professor Alan Gibb, Chairman of the Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Development at Durham University in the UK

• Saturday June, 18
• 11:45-12:30

Moderator: Professor Leona Achtenhagen, Jönköping International Business School
Keynote speech: Professor Steven Klepper - 2011 Global Award Winner
Questions & Comments: Olle Vogel, The Knowledge Foundation, Professor Pontus Braunerhjelm

• Saturday June, 18
• 12:30-13:30

Moderator :Dr Don B Bradley III, President-Elect, ICSB

Next year's host for ICSB World Conference; New Zealand
Farewell ceremony

Best Paper Award Categories

Journal for Small Business Management (JSBM) Best Empirical & Best Theoretical Paper

Wilford White Fellows Doctoral Research Award

Best Paper Award in Asia-Pacific Small Business Management sponsored by Korea Association of Small Business Society (KASBS)

Best Paper in Women's Entrepreneurship sponsored by the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE) and the National Women's Business Council (NWBC)

Next Year's host for ICSB World Conference in New Zealand, SEAANZ

Presenter: Brian Gibson, President SEAANZ