{"id":5112,"date":"2006-05-01T13:42:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:04:32","slug":"expert-sheds-light-on-important-but-rare-aspect-of-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2006\/05\/expert-sheds-light-on-important-but-rare-aspect-of-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert sheds light on important, but rare, aspect of entrepreneurship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #002d61;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"205\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/May2006\/images\/0013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><span><em><strong>Erkko Autio<\/strong>, <\/em>director of the HEC Institut Strat\u00e8ge in Lausanne, Switzerland<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>High-growth entrepreneurial firms represent a small minority of all new businesses, yet they create the bulk of new jobs. Despite their significance, though, it isn\u2019t easy to find information about these high-growth firms precisely because of their rarity. The largest survey conducted to date is the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor\u2019s (GEM) analysis of high-expectation new firms.<\/p>\n<p>It was to those findings that <strong>Erkko Autio<\/strong>, director of the HEC Institut Strat\u00e8ge in Lausanne, Switzerland and professor in technology-based venturing, turned his attention when he spoke on \u201cHigh-Growth Entrepreneurship in a Global Perspective\u201d on April 13, 2006 at a Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center-sponsored event at Florida International University.<\/p>\n<p>He was the ideal person to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter seven years of experience as a core member of the GEM coordination team, Autio has been able to explore the factors leading to growth-oriented new firms,\u201d said <strong>Paul  Reynolds<\/strong>, professor in the College of Business Administration\u2019s Department of Management and International Business and director of the Pino Center\u2019s Entrepreneurial Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>In his lecture, Autio discussed differences between countries in terms of high-expectation entrepreneurial activity, explored the backgrounds of high-expectation entrepreneurs, and looked at how these firms react to national entrepreneurial frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis analysis contributes to our understanding of how the United States maintains a leadership role in this high-potential area of entrepreneurship,\u201d said Reynolds, one of 25 people who attended the lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erkko Autio, director of the HEC Institut Strat\u00e8ge in Lausanne, Switzerland High-growth entrepreneurial firms represent a small minority of all new businesses, yet they create the bulk of new jobs. Despite their significance, though, it isn\u2019t easy to find information about these high-growth firms precisely because of their rarity. The largest survey conducted to date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[625,802,813,2099],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24431,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/24431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}