Section 2: Levels of analysis (micro, meso and macro) Policy action on national or regional level Risk and challenges in SMEs SMEs and regional development Entrepreneurial ecosystems Governance of SMEs Innovation in SMEs Marketing/branding in SMEs
Section 3: Education Responsible forms of entrepreneurial education Developing responsible SME competencies Entrepreneurial education Ethical research questions in SME entrepreneurship
Section 4: Processes in SMEs Value chain in SMEs Decision processes in SMEs Digitilization of SMEs/Technology and AI in SMEs Growth of SMEs/start-ups Internationalization of SMEs/Entry modes Business models in SMEs
Section 5: Entrepreneurial capital of SMEs Intellectual capital in SMEs Professional bodies/leadership Social capital in SMEs Knowledge sharing/knowledge management in SMEs Talent development in SMEs Intellectual property in SMEs
Section 6: SMEs and stakeholders SMESs and university U-I interactions Business angels and financial support for SMEs Social SMEs Ethnic groups and minorities in SMEs
Marina Dabic is Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Business at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia. She prepared a background report for OECD/EC HEinnovate for Croatia. Her papers have appeared in a wide variety of international journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Small Business Economics, the Small Business Management Journal, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, IEEE- Transactions on Engineering Management, Organizational Dynamics, and many others. Prof. Dabic is Associate Editor of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Department Editor for IEEE - Transactions on Engineering Management, and Associate Editor for Technology in Society. She is also Member of the IEEE-TEMS Board of governors.
Sascha Kraus is Full Professor of Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He holds a doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences from Klagenfurt University, Austria, a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Helsinki University of Technology and a Habilitation (Venia Docendi) from Lappeenranta University of Technology, both in Finland. Previously, he held Full Professor positions at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, the University of Liechtenstein, École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur Paris, France, and at Durham University, United Kingdom. He also held Visiting Professor positions at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, and was EECPCL Participating Professor at Harvard University. His main research areas are strategy, internationalization, entrepreneurship and innovation. He is the author of more than 100 academic articles, his research being published in journals such as: Global Strategy Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, and Long Range Planning. He is Associate Editor of the journals Review of Managerial Science, Journal of Small Business Management,Journal of Innovation and Knowledge, and editorial board member of a number of general management and entrepreneurship/small business journals.