You are hereby invited to a special GEM training and publishing workshop, to be held June 20-24 2016 at Yeditepe University, Istanbul.
Purpose and Content
The purpose of the workshop is to train GEM-researchers in analysis of GEM-data for international publication. Training focuses on specifying hypotheses, testing them statistically, and reporting results for academic and policy audiences.
Format
Each participant selects an own research question about people’s entry into entrepreneurship or about entrepreneurs’ work, perhaps in a national context, and researches it by analyzing GEM-data in SPSS, with guidance and consultation by the instructors, resulting in a study suitable for academic presentation and publication. The instructors will create customized data from GEM.
Learning Objectives
Ability to address research questions in entrepreneurship by analyzing quantitative data from GEM.
Prerequisites
Each participant must prepare for the workshop by reading GEM-literature, the GEM-questionnaires, and installing SPSS on own laptop computer.
Literature
Bosma, N. 2013. ‘The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and its impact on entrepreneurship research’. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, vol 9, issue 2, pages 143-248.
Schøtt, T. edited special issue on entrepreneurs’ networks in International Journal of Business and Globalisation, vol 11, no 4 (2013).
Schøtt et al ‘Entrepreneurs’ innovation embedded in networks and national education’. Small Business Economics (2014). 43, 2: 463-476. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9546-8
GEM Manual: Design, Data and Quality Control, www.gemconsortium.org
GEM APS Questionnaire and NES Questionnaire, www.gemconsortium.org
Recommended for browsing and selective reading:
GEM Special Reports on Women, Education & training, High-Growth, Entrepreneurial Employee Activity, Social Entrepreneurship, Youth, Innovation, www.gemconsortium.org
Registration
GEM-members and other GEM-researchers and Ph.D.students can participate. To participate, please email, before June 1 (space is limited, so early registration is recommended), Thomas Schøtt, tsc@sam.sdu.dk. Certificates of participation will be issued, so Ph.D.students may get credit at their universities.
No fee for instruction
The instruction and instructional facilities are all free, sponsored by University of Southern Denmark, Yeditepe University, and GERA.
Costs
You arrange own travel and pay for own accommodation and meals. The cost of a room in a student dormitory is 50 TL per night for a single room, and 100 TL per night for a double room (so cost per person is half if two share a double room), and the cost of a room in a guest home is 70 TL per night for a single room, and 140 TL per night for a double room (so cost per person is half if two share a double room). Make reservations through Thomas.