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Professor William Gartner Receives Prestigious International Award

Submitted by: John Warner on Jun 01, 2005 at 5:00 am Tagged with: General Archives Source:

The Arthur M. Spiro Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University
is very pleased to forward the following announcement from the Swedish
Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and the Swedish Business
Development Agency (NUTEK). Congratulations, Bill!

The FSF-NUTEK Award is the most prestigious award in its field, and receives
national and international attention each year. It was launched in 1996 and
consists of a statuette and $50,000. The winner is elected annually by the
Award Committee of The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research. The
award is given to a person who has produced scientific work of outstanding
quality and importance, providing significant contribution concerning
theory-building in entrepreneurship and small business development, the role
and importance of new firm formation, and the role of small businesses in
economic development.

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Winner of the 2005 FSF-NUTEK Award

William B Gartner
William B Gartner, Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at
Clemson University, is a world-class scholar. On Thursday May 19th he accepted
the FSF-NUTEK Award from the Swedish Minister for Industry and Trade. Gartner
has for the last 25 years been highly influential in entrepreneurship education
and research and for this achievement has already got several awards. Over the
years Gartner has published an impressing number of articles in top journals on
new venture creation and entrepreneurial behaviour. The influence of professor
Gartner is not only due to him being a widely cited scholar, he is also as a
person who engages in real-life entrepreneurship and education.

Professor Gartner combines the best of two research traditions – one based in a
positivist tradition, frequent in the US; one based in a more hermeneutic
tradition, more common in Europe. The contribution of professor Gartner is that
he has shown and still shows us ways to increase our knowledge of
entrepreneurship by using both these routes, parallel or simultaneously. As
examples of his achievements he was co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Research
Consortium in 1995, which initiated, developed and managed the Panel Study of
Entrepreneurial Dynamics, the first major national longitudinal dataset on
nascent entrepreneurship exploring how entrepreneurs find and identify
opportunities, recognize and solve start-up problems, and take action to
successfully launch new ventures. He is also lead editor on a recently
published comprehensive overview of this study. Another achievement of
professor Gartner is that he constantly questions the field and how we research
it, thereby helping establishing a sound theoretical core that builds on the
reality of entrepreneurs. Currently he is collecting and analyzing the stories
entrepreneurs tell about their entrepreneurial adventures and we eagerly await
the results of this and other endeavours of his.

Caron St. John, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Director, Spiro Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
346 F Sirrine Hall
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1345
864-656-7235
864-6564468 (fax)
www.clemson.edu/spiro