Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Podcast GEM

What trends did we see in opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in Chile and Mexico during the financial crisis? What are likely ways on how the coronavirus crisis will impact these numbers and what are lessons for other countries. 

Listen to episode 4 of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Podcast to hear answers from:

- Maribel Guerrero, Professor of Entrepreneurship,  Negocios UDD, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile; Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK 

- José Ernesto Amorós, Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México and  Professor, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

- Elvira E. Naranjo Priego, Professor Department of Economics, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

This podcast is based on the insights that these three professors provided during a GEM Online Learning Session Webinar that took place on May 4th and is moderated by GEM Executive Director Aileen Ionescu-Somers. The original session has been edited to be suitable for an audio podcast. You can access the full video recording and the accompany slides at the following link.

What GEM data from the 2008 financial crisis should entrepreneurs and policymakers keep in mind as we grapple with today’s challenging times?  

On episode 3 of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Podcast, researchers Mark Hart and Niels Bosma explore this question from the perspectives of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.  This podcast is based on the insights that Professors Hart and Bosma originally provided during a GEM Online Learning Session Webinar that took place on Monday, April 19th, moderated by GEM Executive Director Aileen Ionescu-Somers. The original session has been edited to be suitable for an audio format. You can access the full video recording and the accompany slides at the following link.

Sign up for our May 4th Online Learning Session in which we delve into the situation in Mexico and Guatemala. 

About the researchers

Mark Hart is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School, Associate Director of the Aston Centre for Growth, and is one of the Programme Directors and Academic Lead of the national Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme. A 2014 recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, he has played a national role in promoting enterprise skills and supporting entrepreneurs as well as advising government on small business and entrepreneurship matters. He is Deputy Director of the national Enterprise Research Centre (www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk) which is jointly hosted by Aston University and the University of Warwick and has as its mission to understand the drivers of small business growth.  Mark leads on business growth and productivity research to understand the dynamics of the private sector over time and the role of SMEs as well as contributing to the work on growth ambition and access to finance. He also manages the GEM UK national team for GEM Global which is the only international source of annual evidence on entrepreneurial attitudes, activity and aspiration.

Niels Bosma is an Associate Professor at the Utrecht University School of Economics, Chair of the GERA Board of Directors and co-founder of the Utrecht University Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. His main research interests are individual entrepreneurial and innovative behaviour in regional and social contexts. Niels has been published in several leading academic journals and has been involved with GEM since 2005. He received his PhD from Utrecht University – his dissertation focused on the geography of entrepreneurial activity and regional economic development.

About the moderator

As GEM’s Executive Director since February 2019, Aileen Ionescu-Somers' main objective is to ensure that GEM is increasingly perceived as the world-class reference for data-driven entrepreneurship knowledge and expertise worldwide. Aileen is a highly experienced academic researcher/teacher and an author of books, case studies and journal/newspaper articles.

A number of initiatives have been put in place to foster entrepreneurship in Paraguay. It began in 2009 with the efforts of INCUPAR (Asociación Paraguaya de Incubadoras de Empresas y Parques Tecnológicos) and continued in 2015 through the work of the start-up program called Innovandopy. The creation of Karakú Emprendedor in 2017, which brings together public and private allies, and the Paraguayan National Entrepreneurship Directorate (DINAEM) at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce at the end of 2018, marked the new wave of entrepreneurship in the country.

Paraguay took part in the 2019/2020 GEM Global Report.

Episode 2 of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Podcast features Juan Paredes Romero, Director of Promotion, Development and Innovation of DINAEM in Paraguay, and Dr. Stijn van der Krogt, Dean of the Faculty of Business Sciences and Director of Executive Education at the Universidad Paraguayo Alemana. They provided insights on the following:

- Key findings from the team’s involvement with GEM.

- The results of government initiatives to foster entrepreneurship.

- Educating entrepreneurs in Paraguay.

- How the country needs to respond to further develop entrepreneurs in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

The GEM Paraguay team is unique in bringing together so many partner institutions: Asociación de Emprendedores de Paraguay (ASEPY, the lead institution in the GEM Paraguay project), Karaku Emprendedor, Koga Impact Lab, Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), Ministerio de Industria y Comercio (MIC), and Universidad Paraguayo Alemana (UPA).

What are some of the entrepreneurship trends we have seen in the United States over the last two decades? What should policymakers do to foster entrepreneurship? What are some of the lessons from how entrepreneurship was fostered after the financial crisis that are applicable in today’s uncertain times?

Donna Kelley, a professor at Babson College and a GEM researcher, provided insights to these questions on episode #1 of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Podcast.