Global Venture Lab's mission is to produce masters of growth venturing for problems worth solving and the needed scientific knowledge. The vision is to build a "new global faculty", a team based faculty for a new science, "commercialization science". This is creating a dedicated voluntary partnership of humanists, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.  To achieve the mission, entrepreneurs are invited over to open their businesses for co-creation, as Live Cases, via action research and action learning programs. Each GVL location manages its own strategy.

The University is positioned as the ultimate knowledge factory of the mankind. Not a bad place to be, in a world where knowledge – not cash – increasingly is king. However, the sometimes compromised relationship between theory and practice is increasingly underscored in the context of business creation, in general, and Business School, in particular. To bring about change, brave new initiatives are required to enable and encourage more engaging scholarly roles and more practically relevant research missions and outcomes. For the future of management, the needs are perhaps the most profound in the context of entrepreneurship and innovation: Commercialization, business creation and launch of global growth ventures.

GVL was founded by three unique professors on three continents: Prof. Dhrubes Biswas (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Prof. Marko Seppä (University of Jyväskylä), Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu (University of California, Berkeley).

GVL is a university based platform. However, it is more a “method”, than a place or organisation. A the heart of the GVL process is the integration of research, learning, and practice. In doing so, we bring business closer to students and research closer to practitioners. The momentum generated from this active side-by-side engagement of the key actors will lead to the creation of great, responsible, sustainable enterprises. This main goal stretches across all cultures and continents, disciplines of science, and sectors of economy.

Read about the GVL team in Finland.