Entrepreneurship and Well-being

Slavica Singer is Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneurship at the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. Since 2010 she has led the interdisciplinary doctoral program Entrepreneurship and innovativeness designed by collaborative efforts of five universities (Osijek, Croatia; Turku, Finland; Maribor, Slovenia; Klagenfurt, Austria and Durham, UK). Since 2008 she has been the holder of the UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education. Nataša Šarlija is a tenured Professor at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Faculty of Economics in Osijek. Research and educational work is focused on the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, financial management and credit risk management. In addition to working at the University, she also does consulting work in the field of credit risks. Miroslav Rebernik is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics at the University of Maribor. Until recently, he was head of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and chairman of the Department of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship. He was a visiting professor at Portland State University and a Fulbright Scholar at Babson College, USA. In 1992, he founded the first undergraduate programme in entrepreneurship at the University of Maribor. From 1999 to 2020 he headed the Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory, and for 20 years he led the Slovenian team of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Barbara Bradač Hojnik is a full Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor and the head of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at the Faculty. She is a leader of the Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory research, and a member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Slovenia team and the longitudinal research programme Entrepreneurship for Innovative Society. She is an expert for the EU SME Performance Review project for Slovenia and an expert in the STEP project for EC.  She is the author or co-author of several scientific articles, books and chapters in scientific monographs, as well as contributions to numerous international scientific conferences.

1: Introduction.- 2: Well-being, UN Sustainable Development Goals and Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.- 3:  Composite indexes and their potential contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.- 4: Overview of selected studies on GEM indicators and SDGs.-  5: GEM lenses on UN SDGs.- 6: Future research challenges for GEM - increasing the relevancy to UN SDGs 2050.