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Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship - Virgin Unite - Global Leadership Initiatives

One of Virgin Unite´s Global Leadership Initiatives

Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship (www.bransoncentre.org)

So how do we support, nurture and encourage entrepreneurs? Start an entrepreneurial hub, tap into your businesses’ talent pool and match business leaders of today with the emerging entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

At Virgin Unite, we believe entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of a booming economy. They create jobs, which in turn ignite economies and stimulate growth. In disadvantaged areas, they can bring much-nee...

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Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2011 - Steven Klepper - "birth and growth of new industries"

"Since its inception in 1996 the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (on Wikipedia) has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship. This Prize is awarded annually and it consists of the statuette "The Hand of God”, created by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, and a Prize sum of 100,000 euros".

According to the statutes the Award should be given to “a person who has produced scientific work of outstanding quality and importance, thereby giving a significant contribution to theory-building concerning entrepreneurship and small business development, the role and importance of new firm formation and the role of SMEs in economic development"

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2011 award winner Steven Klepper presented 2011-06-16.

Steven Klepper is professor of economics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University´s Tepper School of of Business in Pittsburgh, USA. (Faculty page)

...In looking at the evolution of industries, Klepper explores regularities in the time paths of entry of new producers, exit of incumbent firms, industry output and price, and the rate of product and process innovation. To explain these regularities, he develops theories that feature differences in firm capabilities and the advantages of large firms in appropriating the returns from their innovative efforts. The theories are also used to explain differences in firms' innovative efforts, the composition of their innovative effort and their innovative success...

The Mix: The Management 2.0 Challenge

About

In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Do you have an instructive case study (a Story) or an experimental design (a Hack) that demonstrates how Web 2.0 values (including transparency, collaboration, meritocracy, openness, community and self-determination) can be unleashed to overcome the design limits of Management 1.0—and help to create Management 2.0?

The Management 2.0 Challenge will unfold in two stages: a preliminary stage (Deadline: July 18, 2011) and a final round for several finalists or finalist teams (Deadline in late summer).

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All entries will be judged by our panel of leading management thinkers and progressive practitioners, including:

• Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School and author of The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here,
• Gary Hamel, cofounder, The MIX, author of The Future of Work,
• Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab and author, The New Capitalist Manifesto,
• Eric Hellweg, Editor, Harvard Business Review Online,
• James Manyika, Director, McKinsey & Company,
• Mark McDonald, Group Vice President, Gartner,
• Tim O’Reilly, founder & CEO, O’Reilly Media,
• Clay Shirky, Internet thought leader and author Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.

Entrepreneurship and innovation reports from Darden School of Business (U. Virginia)

Via @DardenEVC

Batten Briefings is a series of research reports that address important and timely topics in entrepreneurship and innovation. Upcoming issues will examine trends in Venture Capital, “green” innovation, and corporate growth strategies.

Financing Innovation Series: What Ever Happened to Venture Capital?
February, 2011
Download pdf here or view interactive version online by clicking on graphic below.

For the first time in venture capital's history, ten-year average fund returns have been negative.

Open publication

InnoCentive - Challenge Driven Innovation

Challenge Browser

About: Facts and Stats + News and Events

e.g.

The Economist-InnoCentive Entrepreneurship Challenge (May 5, 2011: "Yale School Of Management Student Wins Entrepreneurship Competition")

or

POSTED: 5/06/11

InnoCentive and The Economist are teaming up to connect InnoCentive’s talented community, The Economist’s millions of readers and the rest of the world with The Economist conference series entitled the Ideas Economy. Solvers are asked to provide well thought-out concepts for novel and useful metrics or indices that quantify important trends that affect humanity. The winning solution will receive a substantial cash award and be highlighted at the upcoming Economist Ideas Economy: Human Potential conference in September 2011.

AWARD: $10,000 USD  |  DEADLINE: 6/20/11

EU Consultation: Green Paper on a Common Strategic Framework for future EU Research and Innovation Funding

European Commission Research and Innovation

On 9th February 2011, the European Commission presented a Green Paper ( Green Paper EN 70 KB ) which proposes major changes to EU research and innovation funding to make participation easier, increase scientific and economic impact and provide better value for money. The changes, to be introduced in the next EU budget after 2013, would bring together the current Framework Programme for research, the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

The Commission is seeking the views of all interested individuals and organisations on these proposed changes and on the specific questions set out in the Green Paper. The deadline for contributions is Friday 20 May 2011.

The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value, Professor Micheal E. Porter - HBR + interview

Full article here

Jan/Feb 2011.

By

Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard University. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and a six-time McKinsey Award winner.

Mark R. Kramer cofounded FSG, a global social impact consulting firm, with Professor Porter and is its managing director. He is also a senior fellow of the CSR initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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The Idea in Brief

The concept of shared value—which focuses on the connections between societal and economic progress—has the power to unleash the next wave of global growth.

An increasing number of companies known for their hard-nosed approach to business—such as Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Unilever, and Wal-Mart—have begun to embark on important shared value initiatives. But our understanding of the potential of shared value is just beginning.

There are three key ways that companies can create shared value opportunities:

•    By reconceiving products and markets

•    By redefining productivity in the value chain

•    By enabling local cluster development

Every firm should look at decisions and opportunities through the lens of shared value. This will lead to new approaches that generate greater innovation and growth for companies—and also greater benefits for society.

George Buckley, CEO of 3M, on Innovation - Tea with The Economist

March 26th, 2011

Facing economic challenges in the West, the chief executive of 3M looks to emerging markets for new opportunities and more scientists.

Business Schools on an Innovation Mission

On AACSB Innovation Resource Center

...The AACSB International Task Force on Business Schools and Innovation has released its report exploring innovation and its surrounding complexities. The report provides insights into both the innovation process and the role and value of business schools in this process. The developing task force, chaired by Robert S. Sullivan, dean and Stanley and Pauline Foster endowed chair at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, included members from both academia and business around the world.

Download Business Schools on an Innovation Mission (PDF)

Executive Summary (PDF)

AACSB Task Force on Business Schools and Innovation

Why Failure Drives Innovation

March 2011

Baba Shiv, Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Silicon Valley is populated with people who fear only sitting on the bench while someone else scores with a great idea, says Professor Baba Shiv. How people approach failure is a key to success, he argues...

Focus and Quora - "Business School" "MBA"

Focus.com (Focus "offers free how-to's, reports and real-time Q&A with over 5,000 industry experts...the conversations tend to be on-topic and rather insightful.") ReadWrite Biz August 2010.

"Business School",  "MBA"

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Quora.com  (ReadWrite Biz January, 11, 2010)

"Business-School",  "Masters-Degrees",  "Master-of-Business-Administration"