EBRF Conference of 2011 – Global Business Creation Games – is held on Wednesday, 14th and Thursday, 15th of December in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland. For two days, we will focus on Co-Creation of Enterprise for Problems Worth Solving.

Those of you not attending the two intensive conference days in person can follow the conference online, as parts of the conference programme will be streamed live at http://tiny.cc/EBRF2011live.

On Wednesday, 14 December, the broadcast begins at 09.00 and continues until 10.30.
09:00-09.20 Opening words
09:20-09.40 Keynote: Reijo Luostarinen
09.40-10.00 Keynote: Taneli Tikka
10.00-10.20 Keynote: Mark Harris
10.20-10.30 Q & A

On Thursday, 15 December, the broadcast begins at 15.00 and continues until 17.00.
15.00-15.30 Keynote: Paul Dine
15.30-16.00 Keynote: Alf Rehn
16.00-16.30 Keynote: Christian Aspegrén
16.30-17.00 Victory ceremonies and closing

You can download the detailed conference programme at EBRF website for information on keynote speakers and their topics. All broadcast times are Finnish time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).

Join us on 25th of November 2011, 8.00–10.00 at Paavo Koli Auditorium, University of Tampere and discover the opportunities for making business in the growing Indian BOP market, made available through the Health Kiosk venture.

The base of the economic pyramid (BOP) in India is an over 0.9 trillion euro market, making up the biggest chunk of the global 3.65-trillion euro BOP market excluding China. India is one of the vibrant markets where energy, health, ICT and water are among the most interesting BOP market sectors.

Sign up for the event at http://bit.ly/vQ4Lwn and feel free to invite anyone in your network who you think would be interested in the business possibilities offered by this new health care venture and ecosystem.

Download the event invitation as pdf.

Check out the Indian Health kiosk blog at http://indianhealthkiosk.wordpress.com.

The story of GVL Finland has been published in the form of a book - and now you can leaf through it online! 

Called "Co-creating Great Enablers - The Global Venture Lab exploration in Finland", this book maps out the story of GVL from the birth of the idea of a global network to create and enable international co-creation and growth venturing, to the current stage, where something new, something bigger is about to be born…

CO-CREATION OF ENTERPRISE FOR PROBLEMS WORTH SOLVING

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

For registration and detailed information, see www.ebrf.fi

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