"Conde de Campomanes" Institute of Entreprenurial and Family Business

Objectives

To promote entrepreneurial spirit and generate business development networks that can last in time thus creating family businesses.

Lines of research

In the field of business initiatives:

• Innovation and business character
• Funding of SMEs
• The figure of the corporate businessman
• The relationship between a businessman’s traits and his strategic behavior
• Leadership in the innovative process
• The role of institutions in the promotion of business
• Competitive dynamics
• Explanation of the development of the business
• Evaluation of intangibles
• The role of training and of the science and technology system in the creation and development of entrepreneurial abilities.

In the field of family business:

• Organizational structures in family business
• Development and growth in family business
• Distribution of leadership responsibilities in family businesses
• Use of new technologies in the family business
• Family business and business strategy
• Tax regulation in family business
• History of family business
• Institutional factors that affect the creation of family businesses
• Corporative government and business initiative
• Development of theoretical framework for the study of family business