Winners 2012

First Prize - SEK 50,000
Henri Valvanne, from Finland, for his ideas on helping young people online that need social and psychological help

Second Prize - SEK 30,000
Natallia Pisareva, from Belarus, for her ideas on how to create a broader audience for classical music events.

Third Prize - SEK 20,000
Vassil Afzali, Bulgaria, for his ideas on further developing the technology with automatic doors.

About the Challenge

JIBS Entrepreneurship Challenge 2012 awarded the Best Business Ideas from JIBS students. The prize will be awarded annually on the Aktiestinsen's birthday,  February 6.  

Aktiestinsen, Lennart Israelsson, a well-known Swedish stock trader from Nässjö, donated a portfolio of shares worth almost 560 000 Euro to JIBS in 2010. Thanks to Aktiestinsen the yearly revenues will be used to support the entrepreneurial activities of JIBS students in JIBS Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Lennart Israelsson

"Entrepreneurs fascinate me. People who dare to take chances are indispensable. If I had not dared to take a chance long ago, I could never have done this today," says Lennart Israelsson.

Lennart Israelsson was born not far from Jönköping in 1916. He made his first stock investment in 1946, but had already retired when the media first drew attention to his successful and farsighted stock trading. In recent years he has made several donations, and he is a popular lecturer who often gives expert comments for major Swedish newspapers.