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GVL focuses on the creation of practical, relevant and bold academic research. GVL pays special attention to the radical mindset renewal needed to enable co-creation of great global enterprises. Many of the best will focus on major global problems, not just business as usual. Total commitment requires shared missions and higher purposes. Going forward requires societal encouragement to “co-entrepreneurship”, new conceptualization of work (knowledge as capital), innovative organisms and new incentive schemes. Bold new chapters are needed to the theory of the firm!
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GVL is set to create new paradigms on business creation via an action research based “Live Case” approach. A live case study involves researchers and students to work with an organization (in this case, a growth venture) to solve a real business problem. The key to this approach is realism. Students and researchers have regular meetings with real companies, with real products, real competitors in real markets. The students/researchers learn the art of growing growth ventures through active participation and produce research results that enhance academia's understanding of business creation.
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Strategic Logic in Growth Venturing – Ownership Level and Business Level Success Paths of the Growth Venture
Strategic Logic in Growth Venturing (StraLo) is Tekes funded program which started year 2008. The main goal of StraLo is to define success factors of Growth Venturing. These factors can be either Motors or Barriers. The focus of the research is on the entrepreneur's mindset, the ownership, the position and the resourcing.
The project produces better understanding about the success factors of global growth venturing. The result of the program will be an improved understanding of the dynamics of growth venturing. The project has created Optimal Path framework. The focus of this framework is on innovations and ventures with global potential. More information about Optimal Path:
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The project ended in July 2010. The results of the project were introduced at the international research conference EBRF, held in Nokia, Finland in September 2010. More information about EBRF: www.ebrf.fi
For more information contact Mila Hakanen,
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Research areas of interest include:
- firm growth
- ownership
- strategy logic in growth venturing
- entrereneurial marketing
- entrepreneurial branding
- growth venturing for sustainability
- university-business interaction
- social entrepreneurship
- optimal logic (a growth venturing strategy logic)
- action research
- venture-to-capital process
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The EBRF conference (Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society) is an academic business conference for researchers, students, practitioners and entrepreneurs. The Chair of the EBRF Board is Prof. Marko Seppä, Director of GVL Finland. The conference is organized by Global Venture Lab Finland (GVL Finland), a consortium founded by University Alliance Finland, i.e., Tampere University of Technology (TUT), University of Jyväskylä (JYU) and University of Tampere (UTA), in 2008, and joined by Aalto University, Abo Akademi University, Lappeenranta University of Technology and University of Oulu, in 2010. Since its launch in 2001, EBRF has attracted some 200 participants every year, produced a total of more than 460 reviewed research papers, and established itself as a leading business conference in Finland. This year, EBRF 2011 calls for players in the Global Business Creation Games aimed at co-creation of enterprise for Problems Worth Solving.
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