Theme: Entrepreneurship and Finance : Challenges for Research and the Society
Questions that will be discussed with participants:
Target audience: HEC Liège staff and HEC Research members
Moderators:
Prof. Georges Hübner
Prof. Bernard Surlemont
Questions that will be discussed with participants:
- Is the Covid-19 crisis likely to drastically change the landscape of entrepreneurship financing?
- What can be considered as special about Belgium in the entrepreneurship world? Any noticeable difference between regions, beyond the mix public/private funding?
- How is it best to get data for research in this area? What could be seen as an effective strategy?
- Where will the most likely contributions to our understanding of the development of new ventures come from?
- How can research in entrepreneurship lead to an impact in practice? Is there a way to reconcile the research and professional worlds?
- -Many scale-ups tend to go to US for series C financing and IPO. This may contribute to brain/talents/jobs drains from EU to US. What could be done about this? How could EIF, for instance, be part of the solution?
- -UK is known to have the lion share of Private Equity funds in Europe. Would Brexit change anything on the EU private equity dynamics?
Target audience: HEC Liège staff and HEC Research members
Moderators:
Prof. Georges Hübner
Prof. Bernard Surlemont