Dean A. Shepherd is the 2025 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. According to the Prize motivation, he received the Award for “exceptionally impactful, visionary, and community-building contributions to the development of entrepreneurship research”
Robert Baron and Michael Frese are the 2024 winners of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. According to the Prize motivation, they received the Award for “expanding the psychological foundations of entrepreneurship and enabling a vibrant stream of evidence-based research on the micro-foundations of entrepreneurship”
The nomination, evaluation and selection of Award Winners is delegated to an autonomous Prize Committee. The Committee consists of six members (up to eight members until 2009). The discussions within the Committee are strictly confidential.