5th national conference of FSB held in South Wales

From 19 to 21 March 2009, the 35th National Conference of FSB (Federation of Small Business) of Great Britain was held at Celtic Manor hotel near Newport, South Wales.

Professor Dejan Erić, PhD, IES Director, participated at the conference as a special guest on the invitation of ESBA – European Small Business Alliance. He represented entrepreneurship & small and medium business researchers net – ERENET & IES. Among 600 participants, Professor Erić was the only representative from Serbia and the first representative from our country in the history of all FSB conferences.

Among a number of discussed issues, the issues dedicated to small businesses' existence in the recession process and world economic crisis were dominant. During the conference, Professor Erić had bilateral meetings and negotiations about ESBA & FSB IV representatives’ visit to the annual conference of ERENET, which will be held in September in Belgrade.