Awarded paper "Who are you calling old?"

Researchers at TSE Entre, Dr Teemu Kautonen and Ewald Kibler, together with their colleagues Dr Thomas Wainwright and Professor Robert Blackburn of Kingston University (UK), were awarded a best paper prize at the recent Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) research conference in Sheffield (UK) (track: Business creation, resource acquisition and business closure). The paper entitled 'Who are you calling old? Revisiting notions of age and ability amongst older entrepreneurs' addresses the experiences of individuals who have started a business in London when aged 50 or over.

The paper emerged as part of Dr Kautonen's Academy of Finland funded project on older entrepreneurship. The full paper is available at: http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/21480/