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The 2021 Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey is out!

The 2021 Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey is out! Please find the report at https://www.guesssurvey.org/resources/nat_2021/GUESSS_Report_2021_Netherlands.pdf   With the help of the Dutch academic entrepreneurship community, we collected data that – response rates acknowledged – sheds some light on the status of Dutch student entrepreneurship. Compared to the international data, the Dutch respondents of the 2021 Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit

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Understanding entrepreneurial behaviour – 11th DARE seminar at NIKOS, University of Twente

The 11th DARE Seminar took place at the University of Twente, co-hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship (NIKOS). Entrepreneurship researchers from all over the Netherlands and even Spain were able to network, create memories, and discuss many important new research insights that are vital to a better understanding of entrepreneurial behavior. Some of these include the role of

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“Context always matters!” – DARE research seminar at the VU Amsterdam

DARE seminar 2 Dec 2016, “ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CONTEXT” “Thank you for organizing the excellent DARE seminar yesterday. What a great turnout, program, and interaction!” was one of the reactions after the 10th DARE research seminar on December 2 at the VU Amsterdam. Indeed, an even higher than expected number of participants attended the event, and there was a splendid atmosphere

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Masterclass Family Business on Internationalization & Innovation: The Case of Weekamp Deuren B.V.

‘We schrijven al 30 jaar een spannend jongensboek.’ Zo opende Johan Weekamp op 14 december 2015 de masterclass over Innovatie en Internationalisering. Een volle klas met ruim 30 belangstellenden was te gast op het hoofdkantoor van Weekamp Deuren in Dedemsvaart. De masterclass was de laatste in een reeks van vier die werd georganiseerd door het Landelijk Expertisecentrum Familiebedrijven van Hogeschool Windesheim

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Launch of CRSE: a new international think tank on self-employment and its impact on the economy

A new think tank devoted to research on self-employment and freelancing was launched on 26 November with a memorable celebration at the iconic National Gallery London. The Centre for Research on Self-Employment (CRSE) is a pioneering venture and will be the leading think tank working to improve the understanding of self-employment and its impact on the economy. Through collaboration with a network of academics

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DARE-fellow Erik Stam: State of Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands

DARE-Fellow Erik Stam gave a lecture on the State of Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands at the opening event of the Global Entrepreneurship Week. If you look at the number of new firms and independent entrepreneurial activity in the Netherlands over the last decade, you can see a doubling of these numbers, elevating the Netherlands far beyond most of the European benchmark countries (including

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DARE update: lancering ‘De Staat van het MKB’, onder toeziend oog van Koningin Máxima

Hare Majesteit Koningin Máxima is maandagmiddag 23 november aanwezig bij de lancering van ‘De Staat van het MKB’ in de Malietoren in Den Haag. Met dit nieuwe onafhankelijke platform willen overheid, bedrijfsleven en kennisinstellingen de in Nederland beschikbare kennis over het midden- en kleinbedrijf verbeteren. Naast een platform is De Staat van het MKB ook een samenwerkingsverband. Op 23 november

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DARE seminar on knowledge triangle between Education, Research and Entrepreneurship

Suppose that we needed to plea for more funding for entrepreneurship education, how would we pitch the (assumed) benefits of these endeavors for economic prosperity? In other words, what are the effects of our efforts to promote entrepreneurship through education programs? Key questions that were addressed during the 8th DARE research seminar in Utrecht, co-organized with Utrecht School of Economics and ECSB. Our main conclusion

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EMPOWERING STUDENT-ENTREPRENEURS TO SUCCESSFULLY COMBINE ACADEMICS AND RUNNING A BUSINESS

Entrepreneurship among students is on the rise and more and more ambitious student entrepreneurs are discovering that successfully combining studies and running a business can prove challenging. Student entrepreneurs either spend less time on their startup or study resultingin dropouts or bankruptcy. While Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Dutch Pieter Zwart (Coolblue) have been highly successful despite dropping

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