– Disseminates knowledge on entrepreneurship, innovation and small business
ESBRI facilitated our ability to communicate our research, discuss the issues and raise the visibility for research on women's entrepreneurship not only in the Nordic Countries, but world wide."
ESBRI's founder
Leif Lundblad started his first company at the age of seventeen. Since then he has started some ten companies and created thousands of jobs. He has over 300 patents within a wide range of areas. Leif Lundblad's companies and innovations can be found in business areas such as radio and television, excavators, blasting, gardening, facade washing, sky-lifts, back treatment tables, air-conditioned shoes, pancake machines, combustion engines and pharmaceuticals.
Leif Lundblad's biggest success is Inter Innovation, a world-leading manufacturer of note handling equipment. His latest venture is SealSystem, an electromechanical device that seals fax messages and print jobs into envelopes. He is chairman of the board and the main owner of BANQIT, a company specialised in note handling equipment and software for banks.
Leif Lundblad is also a keen debater and a popular speaker with a special interest in the welfare of Swedish entrepreneurs and small businesses. To increase the knowledge and understanding for the needs of small businesses, he has made an endowment for the establishment of a professorship in entrepreneurship and small business at the Stockholm University and for a research institute - ESBRI - in co-operation with the University.
