A book is a first monograph in Slovenia completely dedicated to a population of independent inventors, i.e. inventors that invent outside the research and development departments of companies or public research organizations. Chapters in the book analyze the population, their position and role in a present society, (non)inclusion in the national supportive environment for innovation, as well as book gives several practical advises concerning efficient protection of inventions and possibilities of access to grants. A special chapter is devoted to analsys of barriers that women invetnors face on their inventive paths.
F.34 Consultancy
COBISS.SI-ID: 257704704Prof. Dr. Frane Adam presented research and the authors who deal the impact of cultural patterns on the innovation performance. Specifically he highlighted Hofstedes' concepts. As well he finds certain methodological weaknesses in the design of these studies and presents some suggestions for validity and reliability improvements.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 30957405Entrepreneurship is often defined as merely the starting-up of new firms. There are obvious advantages in using this simplified definition, not least regarding measurement, but with such a definition there is also a great risk in missing important aspects of entrepreneurship and how it emerges and develops. Therefore, this paper takes its starting point in a broader definition according to which entrepreneurship is a chain of activities, including discovery of opportunities, evaluation of them and gathering resources in order to exploit these opportunities. Based on this definition, this paper examines entrepreneurship in six different spheres of society: economic; social; civil; political; academic; and innovative entrepreneurship. It can be assumed that the six forms of entrepreneurship mutually have impacts on each other, but that the directions of these impacts can vary. This paper makes a first investigation of the six dimensions of entrepreneurship in Sweden and the connections between them and measures of growth at the local government level and in various spatial areas. Economic entrepreneurship, measured in the form of start-ups, is having the strongest connections to growth of population and employment in all types of local government areas. Political entrepreneurship seems completely unimportant for growth of metropolitan and high-growth areas, but strongly correlated to growth in rural and low and medium growth areas
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 30560093