Office at the United Nations, New York

• Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of United Nations University Office at the UN, New York

Special Issue (vol 34, no 1, 2010) of the Small Business Economics Journal on Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics; guest edited by Wim Naudé

Special section (vol 22 no 3, 2010) of the European Journal of Development Research on Female Entrepreneurship; guest edited by Wim Naudé and Maria Minniti.

UNU-WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/34, A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship, Sameeksha Desai, Zoltan Acs, and Utz Weitzel, April 2010

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/47, Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, Erik Stam and André van Stel, November 2009

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/45, Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries, Wim Naudé, September 2009

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/12, Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies, Roy Thurik, March 2009

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/10, Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, Sameeksha Desai, March 2009

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/07, Entrepreneurship and Quality of Institutions: A Developing-Country Approach, José Ernesto Amorós, February 2009

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2008/20, Entrepreneurship in Economic Development, Wim Naudé, March 2008

Other Related UNU Event:

Global Crises and Entrepreneurial Incentives June 2010

Speakers' Profiles:

Wim Naudé is Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER. He is a graduate in development economics from the University of Warwick (UK) and North-West University (South Africa). His recent research focuses on entrepreneurship, industrialization, spatial economics and the challenges of small island developing countries and fragile states, including their vulnerability and resilience. He is, and has been, member of a number of international networks and advisory bodies including the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the Club de Madrid, the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN). He has served on the Faculty of Brown University's International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) on technology entrepreneurship, and on UNU-EHS' Expert Working Group on Measuring Vulnerability. Previously, he has been Director of the WorkWell Research Unit at North-West University, South Africa, a Council Member of Statistics South Africa, a lecturer and research officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford. Wim has published widely. He has contributed to the World Development Report 2009 and the European Report on Development 2009, and has been guest editor of a number of journal special issues - including of Journal of Development Studies, Small Business Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Journal of International Development and European Journal of Development Research. He is editor of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development that will be published in December 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan, and co-editor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development, and Understanding Small Island Developing States that will be published early in 2011 by respectively Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Robert Strom is Director of Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, working with the nation's top scholars to advance knowledge in entrepreneurship. Strom also has served on the collegiate and youth entrepreneurship teams during his tenure at the Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was a visiting professor at the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and vice president of the National Council on Economic Education. Strom also has been assistant vice president for public affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, president of the Missouri Council on Economic Education, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and a member of the economics department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Strom has written extensively on topics related to entrepreneurship in academic and professional publications. He is co-editor of three books on entrepreneurship and economic growth, and regularly speaks on entrepreneurship to professional and academic audiences. Strom holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cincinnati.

Moderator's Profile

Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations Headquarters (New York). He was Senior Academic Officer and Director of Studies at the UNU headquarters (Tokyo) from 1996 to 2003. From 1992 to 1996, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and has taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing). Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in Political Science-Law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. He has published books in the fields of comparative politics, social and legal theory, international relations and international law.