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class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_297' class='stacks_in com_blueballdesign_freestackspacer_stack'><div id="stacks_in_297_headerSpacer"></div> </div></div><div id='stacks_out_284' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_284' class='stacks_in text_stack'>GUESSS stands for »Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students‘ Survey«. It is one of the largest entrepreneurship research projects in the world. The main research focus is students’ entrepreneurial intentions and activities, including the topic of family firm succession.<br /><br />GUESSS (formerly labeled ISCE, until 2006) has been established in 2003 at the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland). Every 2–3 years, a global data collection effort takes place. For every participating country, there is one responsible country team which coordinates data collection in that country (see <a href="../participation/" title="Participation">participation</a>).<br /><br />GUESSS data have been used for several publications in leading international academic journals such as Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) or Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (ETP) (see <a href="../publications/publications/academic-journals.html" title="Academic Journal Publications">publications</a>).<br /><br />Impact in practice is generated through numerous <a href="../publications/publications/international-reports.html" title="GUESSS International Reports">international</a> and <a href="../publications/publications/national-reports.html" title="GUESSS National Reports">national</a> project reports.</div></div> </div> <div class="col_border"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id='stacks_out_298' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_298' class='stacks_in dk_denflinkegrafiker_stacks_fadeincss_stack'><div class="comeonin"> <div id='stacks_out_299' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_299' class='stacks_in com_joeworkman_stacks_fontawesome_stack'><p class="jw-wrapper jw-center shadow-none hover "> <a href="#" target="self"> <i class='fa fa-chevron-circle-up fa-4x icon-4x jw-center '></i> </a> </p> </div></div> </div> </div></div><div id='stacks_out_302' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_302' class='stacks_in stack_stack'><div id='stacks_out_303' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_303' class='stacks_in com_blueballdesign_freestackspacer_stack'><div id="stacks_in_303_headerSpacer"></div> </div></div><div id='stacks_out_304' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_304' class='stacks_in dk_denflinkegrafiker_stacks_hagrid_stack'><div class="bettergrid"> <div class="grid grid-pad"> <div class="col-12-12"> <div class="col col12"> <div id='stacks_out_309' class='stacks_out'><div id='stacks_in_309' class='stacks_in com_blueballdesign_freestackrfooter_stack'><div id="footer">©2003–2024 GUESSS</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="col_border"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>