CO-CREATION OF ENTERPRISE FOR PROBLEMS WORTH SOLVING

DECEMBER 14-15, 2011
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

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The ART vs. SCIENCE of Business Creation
There is research that produces new materials, devices and drugs, even symphonies. Business studies have traditionally produced less concrete outcomes. In Science of Business Administration, enterprises are typically investigated from the outside, via interviews, surveys, statistical analyses. In Art of Business Creation, coined by GVL Finland, enterprises are investigated from within, by doing. Aimed at co-creation of globally scalable products, global enterprises, and entire enabling ecosystems, the Art supplements the Science, and the classic quest for generalization and repeatability.

For Problems Worth Solving
The call for higher impact of business research and education is underscored by the Big Problems. Climate change and related concerns for energy, food and water, topped with inequality and poverty, all constitute for Problems Worth Solving. Co-creation of global enterprises dedicated to such problems requires a new breed of entrepreneurs, academicians, and policy makers. Enabling all this is a new demanding, exciting, and worthwhile, global game.

Let’s Play the New Global Game!
Accepted abstract contributors will be teamed up for ecosystem level impact. Utilizing GVL Finland’s rewarded Runway-to-Growth method the knowledge teams will each meet one of six real life "ecosystem teams", comprising entrepreneurs, executives and policy makers. The exercise will be aimed at synergistic co-creation of research, ventures and policies. With inspiration from the accepted abstracts, the "ecosystem teams" will be composed around the grand topics of Capital, Climate, Education, Energy, Health, ICT.

At EBRF 2011, you are invited to join GLOBAL FACULTY PARTNERS FOR PROBLEMS WORTH SOLVING LP (GFP) as founding partner
GFP invites academicians, across all borders, with curiosity and passion to solving Big Problems via co-creation of Great Global Enterprises, as founding partners. Besides individual faculty members, GFP welcomes their trusted entrepreneurs, executives and advisors as co-founders.

GFP pools growth resources globally to distribute them locally. Together with leading enterprise solution providers, GFP produces instruments, platforms, vehicles and mechanisms that enable rapid global growth. Each partner can provide and receive global resources to local ventures.

INVITED KEYNOTE PLAYERS OF THE GLOBAL BUSINESS CREATION GAMES (SOME TBC):
Christian ASPEGREN, Dhrubes BISWAS, Will CARDWELL, Paul DINE, Jose Manuel LECETA, Reijo LUOSTARINEN, Alf REHN, Taneli TIKKA

 Christian ASPEGREN is Founding Managing Partner of Global Faculty Partners for Problems Worth Solving LP, a born global to be launched at EBRF 2011 Global Business Creation Games. Christian has almost 40 yrs of experience of developing and launching market leader products and services as Product Manager, CEO, Management Consultant and Entrepreneur. In 2009, he joined GVL Finland, as Co-Creator, and candidate for PhD on Global Venture Creation.

Dhrubes BISWAS is Professor of Electronics and Head of Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He has co-founded several technology ventures in America, Asia and Europe, is a Co-Founder of Global Venture Lab (GVL) and the Founding Father of the Rural India Health Kiosk, an ambitious, scalable, social entrepreneurship based venture and platform for simultaneous ecosystem level business creation.

Will CARDWELL is Head of Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE). This born American, former venture capitalist, growth venture CEO and managing director of Technopolis Ventures is well groomed for his role as the quarterback of enterprise in Finland’s new innovation university. He also has important early work experience from the world of university researchers from his service at the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), today part of Aalto University.

Paul DINE is Founding Partner of Global Leadership Alliance and Assistant Dean of Top Talent Study Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The makings of this cross-cultural guru include service as Professor of Theology at Pontificio Collegio Beda, in Rome, a career as a Siemens Executive with global responsibilities related to cross-cultural group education & training, and another career as Management Professor teaching, cross-culturally, around the world.

Jose Manuel LECETA is the newly appointed Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Before, he served as International Director of CDTI, the Spanish Innovation Agency, for six years. A specialist in international innovation economics, he is a strong believer in the game-change capacity of pan-European partnerships towards delivering impact in the field of entrepreneurship education and the creation of new business in Europe.

Reijo LUOSTARINEN is Founder and Professor Emeritus of International Business (IB) programme and the Centre for International Business Research at Aalto University. He has served as President of European International Business Academy (EIBA) and has a vast global experience via visiting professorships, board memberships and consulting. Today, he chairs a number of Born Globals and devotes time & energy to advancing the art of global business creation.

Alf REHN is a globally renowned Business Thinker, writer and speaker, and Professor of Management and Organization at Abo Akademi University. He also serves as Chairman of Finland’s fastest growing advertising agency, Satumaa. The Times has labeled him a "star of the future" and Thinkers 50 ranked him #13, in their Guru Radar, among the world's top business thinkers. His most recent book, Dangerous Ideas, presents an alternative take on creativity and business.

Taneli TIKKA is a Serial Entrepreneur and Play Maker known from Internet based ventures such as IRC-Galleria, Dopplr, Muxlim, StarDoll, RunToShop, and Vakuutuskone.com. This Aalto University School of Economics graduate currently serves as CEO of Soprano Brain Alliance and assists the TEKES funded accelerator program Vigo as member of the steering board. Looking back at 2010, the FIPA nominated him as Finland’s Opinion Leader in ICT.

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