مؤلف: Esteban Lafuente

Zoltan Acs is Professor of Management at the London School of Economics (UK), Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, USA), and Founder and President of the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI Institute, Washington, D.C., USA). He is also co-editor and founder of Small Business Economics (Springer), a leading entrepreneurship journal. He has published more than 200 articles in international scholarly journals and over 35 books.   László Szerb is University Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pécs (Hungary). He is also the creator, along with Zoltan Acs, of the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI). His teaching and research focuses mainly on small business and entrepreneurship related subjects. He has published extensively in entrepreneurship topics including the determinants of entrepreneurship, competitiveness and performance.   Éva Somogyiné Komlósi is a Research Fellow in the MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group at the University of Pécs (Hungary). Her main area of research is the investigation of the effects of institutional factors on entrepreneurship.   Esteban Lafuente is Professor in the Department of Management at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). His also an Editor of Small Business Economics (Springer), a leading entrepreneurship journal. His research focuses on the economic analysis of organizations, with special emphasis on models of managerial economics and topics in applied econometrics. His research has been published in a variety of international journals.