Since its inception in 1996 the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship. This Prize is awarded annually and it consists of the statuette “The Hand of God”, created by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, and a Prize sum of 100,000 Euros.
The organizations behind the Prize are the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (Entreprenörskapsforum), Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), and donor Melker Schörling.
The Award is given to a scholar who has produced scientific work of outstanding quality and importance, thereby giving a significant contribution to theory-building concerning entrepreneurship and small business development, the role and importance of new firm formation and the role of SMEs in economic development.
In 1996, the American David L. Birch was the first person to receive the Award, which then was called the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. The Swedish professor Bengt Johannisson, who received the Prize in 2008, was the 13th and last Winner of the Award under its original name. From 2009 the Award has changed names to the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.
Read more about the Award on the official website www.e-award.org.
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Award winners 1996-2013
2013 Maryann Feldman
2012 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
2011 Steven Klepper
2010 Josh Lerner
2009 Scott A. Shane
2008 Bengt Johannisson
2007 The Diana Project
2006 Israel M. Kirzner
2005 William B. Gartner
2004 Paul D. Reynolds
2003 William J. Baumol
2002 Giacomo Becattini and Charles F. Sabel
2001 Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch
2000 Howard E. Aldrich
1999 Ian C. MacMillan
1998 David J. Storey
1997 Arnold C. Cooper
1996 David L. Birch
