Corvinus
University Budapest in collaboration with the European Council of Small
Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) and
ERENET cordially invites you to a Pre-Conference Policy Forum on 18 November,
The 23rd RENT Conference will provide a forum for discussing
some of the latest research evidence with respect to entrepreneurship and
growth. The pre-Conference Policy Forum aims to generate an exchange of views
and experiences between researchers, policy makers and practitioners on
contemporary policy-related topics. By focusing on entrepreneurship policy at a
time of crisis, the Pre-Conference Policy Forum will provide an opportunity to
discuss the effects of the recession on SMEs and the responses of firms and policy
makers in different parts of
Most of the discussion
surrounding the current crisis has focused on the implications for large
businesses and their hiring and investment decisions, or on households and
their employment possibilities. One underemphasized aspect of the issue is the
impact on small and medium-sized firms and the nature of the responses. Policy
responses so far have tended to focus on ameliorating the immediate impacts,
with less attention paid to preparing firms for the recovery period.
Location
Main building,
Auditorium III.
address: Fovam ter 8.
Preliminary Programme:
10:00 Welcome:
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Dr. Thomas M. Cooney (Dublin Institute of technology and President
of ESCB)
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Dr. Károly Balaton (
10:20 Plenary 1: 'Entrepreneurship and the
business cycle: a way out of the Bust' Professor Roy Thurik (
11:10 Coffee break
11:30 Round
Table: Policies for Entrepreneurship at
the Time of Crisis (Moderator Professor David Smallbone,
Speakers:
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Mr Zoltán Mester (State Secretary for Economic Development, Ministry
for National Development and
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Dr Tom Cooney (Dublin Institute of
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Mr Emmanouil Schizas, (
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Dr Charles Matthews (
This session will discuss the following questions: the
effects of the crisis on the SME sector; the policy responses of government; evidence
of the impact of the adequacy of the government responses.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Plenary session: ‘Criteria for identifying good practice
policies’, Professor Zoltan Roman
14:30 Round Table: Policies to Promote
Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe: Identifying Good Practice
(moderator Dr. Antal Szabó (Scientific director of ERENET,
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Dr. Péter Szirmai (Corvinus
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Desislava
Yordanova (
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Darija Kristić (Center for of
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Dr Eric Dejan (Institute of Economic Sciences,
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Dr. Zsuzsanna Szabó (Petru Maior
University, Romania)
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Jerzy Cieślik (Leon Kozminski
Academy of Entrepreneurship, Poland)
Dr. Marián
Gál (Technical
Each speaker will address the
following: (i) The aim of their policy/programme; (ii) Main activities of their
policy/programme; (iii) Results/outcomes; (iv) Good practice features (with
rationale)
16:30 ESCB Policy Network Meeting
Participation at
the Pre-Conference is free of charge, however, there are limited spaces.
Participants wishing to
participate in the RENT XXIII Pre-Conference Policy Forum to be held Wednesday 18 November
2009 kindly requested to fill this Registration Table below and send to the ERENET
Secretary Attila Petheo by E-mail: attila.petheo@uni-corvinus.hu or by Fax: (+361)
482-5408 as soon as possible, but no later that 30th October 2009.
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Detailed
view of the Pre-conference
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Policy Forum |
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18 November 09,
Wednesday |
9:00-10:00 |
Registration
open |
10:00-10:20 |
Welcome
(Corvinus & Tom Cooney) |
10:20-11:10 |
Opening Plenary (Roy Thurik) |
11:10-11:30 |
Coffee break |
11:30-13:00 |
Round Table 1 |
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Policies for Entrepreneurship at a Time of Economic
Crises |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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AULA |
14:00-14:30 |
II. Plenary (Zoltán Román) |
14:30-16:15 |
Round Table 2 |
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Policies to Promote Entrepreneurship in Central and Best Practices |
16:15-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-17:10 |
ECSB Policy
Network Meeting |
18:30-20:30 |
RENT Conference
Registration Open |
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Main Building
AULA |
18:30-20:30 |
Welcome drink |
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Main Building AULA |