Universities, innovation and entrepreneurship: good practice workshop, Halle, Germany, 12 June 2009
UNIVERSITIES, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
GOOD PRACTICE WORKSHOP
Background | Agenda | Presentations | Practical Information
Background
University graduates have enormous potential for innovation and economic development. Mobilising them for entrepreneurial careers, enhancing their entrepreneurial skills, and providing support for business start-up are important tasks for higher education institutions (HEI) that are only now being fully recognised. Public policy has a role in stimulating innovative and good practice approaches by universities and supporting the exchange of lessons learned.
The joint policy development project from the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme of the OECD and the German Federal Ministry of Housing, Construction and Urban Affairs analyses since 2005 policy challenges and options in enhancing entrepreneurship and to offer inspiration for new approaches through local capacity building and international exchanges of policy experiences.
The aim of the good practice workshop is to follow up this work with a practical event to enable HEIs and policy makers from eastern Germany to exchange with each other and with participants from other countries around good practice in HEI entrepreneurship support, namely in entrepreneurship education and in start-up support. A rich and diverse programme will also offer participants opportunities to engage in dept-interviews with those behind good practices.
The case study work has furthermore contributed an assessment of graduate entrepreneurship support in the participating HEIs. This assessment has led to the development of an Action Plan that aims to allow HEIs in eastern Germany, and elsewhere, to self-assess and re-orient (i) their strategy in supporting entrepreneurship, (ii) their pool of financial and human resources, (iii) the support structures they have established, (iv) their current approaches in entrepreneurship education and start-up support, and (v) their evaluation practices. The Action Plan will be presented in Halle.
Agenda
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Presentations
Higher Education Institutions and Entrepreneurship: Innovation and the Economic Development Potential of Academic Youth
Wolfgang Tiefensee, Minister of Housing, Construction and Urban Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany
Detlef Schubert, State Secretary, Ministry of Economics and Labour, Sachsen-Anhalt
Sergio Arzeni, OECD
Guenther Faltin, Professor for Entrepreneurship Freie University Berlin
Katja Heppe, academic entrepreneur and founder of Heppe Medical Chitosan Ltd
Findings from an OECD LEED-BMVBS Project
Wolfgang Helmstädter, Federal Ministry for Housing, Construction and Urban Affairs
Jonathan Potter and Andrea-R. Hofer, OECD, LEED Programme
International University Practices in Entrepreneurship Support
Alain Fayolle, Professor for Entrepreneurship at the EMLyon, France
Rod Shrader, Professor for Entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois at Chicago and founder and director of its Technology Ventures Programme
Open Space Session
Participants will meet with peers in charge of entrepreneurship education and graduate start-up support and engage in 15-minute in-depth discussions around success factors, problems and transferability. Participants can choose up to three initiatives from a pool of 20 eastern German and international good practice projects that were selected on the basis of an OECD criteria list
Practical Information
Participation by invitation only.
For further information on the workshop, please contact Eniko.Soujon@oecd.org or Anna.DeStefano@oecd.org
Long abstract
