Vzdržljivost podjetniške aktivnosti: GEM Slovenija 2021

Dr. Miroslav Rebernik is a full professor of entrepreneurship and business economics and the head of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. In 1992, he founded the first undergraduate study program for entrepreneurship. Since 1999 he has been leading a research project and a team that creates the annual Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory, and since 2002 he has been leading the Slovenian team of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research program. In 2001, he co-founded Tovarna podjemov (www.tovarnapodjemov.org), which as a business incubator of the University of Maribor is one of the key elements of a supportive environment for entrepreneurship in the University of Maribor and the wider region.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: miroslav.rebernik@um.si

Dr. Karin Širec is a full professor of entrepreneurship and business economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor and the head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics. In the research group of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, she participates in two longitudinal research in the field of entrepreneurship, namely the Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. At the same time, she is also a Slovenian representative of the international research group for the research of women's entrepreneurship DIANA and a member of the research program Entrepreneurship for an Innovative Society. She is an OECD expert advisor in the field of inclusive entrepreneurship.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: karin.sirec@um.si