ICSB

Date: October 14-16, 2010
Venue: The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Presenter(s)	Affiliation	Topic (Click on text to download PPT in pdf form)
Casey Frid	Clemson University, USA	Acquiring Financial Resources to Form New Ventures: Pecking Order theory and the Emerging Firm
Diana Hechavarria	University of Cincinnati, USA	New Firm Founding and Legitimacy: The Role of Innovation and Kinship Ties on Start‐up Activities Among U.S. nascent Entrepreneurs
Amy Davis & Kelly Shaver	College of Charleston, USA	Entrepreneurial Self‐Efficacy, Start‐Up Activities, and Team Composition
Tiantian Yang	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA	All Organizations Were Once New: Choosing Appropriate Statistical Methods to Analysis DATA on New Entrepreneurial Ventures
Saurav Pathak	Imperial College, London, U.K.	Exit Experience, Social Norms, and Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations: A Multi‐level Panel Study
Ferdinand Jaspers	Erasmus University, The Netherlands	A Novel Approach to the Study of the Temporal Sequence of Gestation Activity
Ekaterina Thurkina	HEC Montreal, Canada	Social Psychology of Entrepreneurship
Charles Matthews	University of Cincinnati, USA	Nascent Entrepreneurs’ Global Orientation: The Role of Innovation
Inessa Love	The World Bank Group	Impact of the Financial Crisis on New Firm Creation
Mariana Iootty	The World Bank Group	Innovation and Learning During the Crisis: Evidence from Firm Level Data for Eastern European Countries
Nir Kshetri	University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA	Determinants of birth and mortality of entrepreneurial firms in OECD countries
Dali Ma	Drexel University, USA	Social Autonomy and Economic Action: Expressive Social Circles in the Creation of Chinese Private Enterprise
Antonio Malfense Fierro	University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.	A longitudinal perspective on Portfolio Entrepreneurship: Intentions, business group growth, stagnation and contraction over time in developing economies
Carolin Geginat	The World Bank Group	Doing Business 2010: Reforming Through Difficult Times
Paul Reynolds	The George Washington University, USA	National Factors Affecting Nascent Entrepreneurship: A Global Assessment
Anthony Santella & Mickey Conway	Lander Universty / Clemson University, USA	Experiential Learning in International Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Colombian Students
Chihmao Hsieh	Amsterdam School of Business, The Netherlands	Learning Paths to Self‐Employment: Do Jacks of all trades learn best through separated or concomitant Learning?
Norris Krueger	Max Planck Institute of Ecomonics	Testing the Role of Entrepreneurial Development in Business Creation: From Tech Transfer to Local Economic Development?

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Topic: National Factors Affecting Business Creation: A Global Assessment

Presenters:

Dr. Paul Reynolds (Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University)
Mr. Amr Gohar (President, Middle East Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (MCSBE)
Ms. Lois Stevenson (Visiting Research Fellow, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Cairo)
Dr. G. Dale Meyer (Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Colorado – Boulder)

New business creation is intimately associated with economic growth and adaptation and a major career option for many. Ten years after inception, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor [GEM] initiative has provided harmonized estimates of the prevalence of participation in the business creation process for 76 countries. The countries covered by the GEM initiative represent all major regions of the world: Eastern, Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceana, South America, developed and developing countries of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.

In addition to detailed analysis of individuals active in business creation, it is now possible to consider the impact of country characteristics on cross-national differences in participation in the entrepreneurial process. The major national features considered in the analysis include measures of annual income (GDP per capita), recent growth in annual income, the age structure of the population, educational attainment among the adult population, the labor force participation by men and women, income equality, the origin of legal traditions, the ease of registering new firms, and traditional versus secular-rational and survival versus self-expression values. The resulting model is able to account for 88% of the variation in participation in business creation. There are numerous implications for national policies for promoting business creation.

In addition to the main presentation on business creation, the event will also feature a presentation by Dr. G. Dale Meyer on ‘Youth Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Middle East.’

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2008 DELL/ICSB International Small Business IT Survey

The second annual International Small Business IT Survey was conducted with more than 1,500 small business owners and experts worldwide to better understand how small businesses might thrive and excel through the innovative use of IT. To actively support such small business IT excellence and leadership, Dell expanded its Small Business Excellence Award program previously held in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. (in
partnership with the National Federation of Independent Business) to 12 countries. The mission of the award is to identify small businesses worldwide that demonstrate the innovative use of IT to better serve customers.

To better understand key drivers behind these investments, business‐owners’ top IT pain points, and the value entrepreneurs worldwide place on IT, Dell and the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) collaborated on the second annual “International Small Business IT Survey.” Taking the pulse of 1,361 IT decision‐makers in companies of 100 employees or less from nine countries and opinions from 200 small‐business experts attending the 2008 World ICSB Conference, the two surveys examined small business perceptions and use of IT.

The State of Information Technology on Small Businesses World-Wide: Listening to Entrepreneurs and
Experts - 2007

Information Technology (IT) encompasses various hardware and software that small businesses use daily. IT influences their productivity which in turn, affects their competitive position. A healthy competitive position typically yields success in business. There is of-course, more to productivity and business success than technological prowess. Still, the role technology plays in making small businesses viable competitors
should not be underestimated. Thus, the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and the DELL Inc. collaborated on a joint international Global Technology Study. We asked small business owners in 12 countries around the world about the role of IT in their business. We also asked consultants, researchers, educators, and government officials who assist small businesses to help explain how IT plays a role in small
business productivity and success. This report gives the result of these studies. Overall, we found that regardless of their locale, small business owners generally agreed on the importance of IT to their operations, as well as on the problems and challenges it presents. Moreover, we found that experts generally were in agreement with small business owners. The details of these findings follow. (click here)

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DELL Inc. / ICSB International Small Business IT Survey Results

Global Entrepreneurship: The Latest Research on Business Creation

Topic: National Factors Affecting Business Creation: A Global Assessment

2008 DELL/ICSB International Small Business IT Survey