For its scientific research EIM intensively cooperates with academic researchers at universities in the Netherlands and across the world. Our findings are also presented at the major conferences in this field such as RENT, BABSON and EARIE, and are published in Small Business Economics and other scholarly journals. In this way the SCALES program has a lively discourse with the academic community and new research findings from elsewhere are easily absorbed. EIM fellows prof. David Audretsch (Indiana University), prof. David Storey (Warwick University), prof. Gavin Reid (St. Andrews), and EIMs scientific advisor prof. Roy Thurik (Erasmus University Rotterdam) play an important role in this exchange of knowledge. Together with the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) we also maintain a joint Entrepreneurship Research Portal.