Start - End |
Event |
Day 1 – “Creating the Urgency to Convert Innovation to Impact” |
09:30 - 13:00 |
Registration / Networking / Poster Sessions |
13:00 - 13:15 |
MIT GSW: Opening & Agenda |
13:15 - 13:30 |
Start Norway: Introduction |
13:30 - 13:50 |
Government Welcome |
13:50 - 14:20 |
Keynote: "Critical Success Factors in Entrepreneurship -- What's Hot", Mr. Kenneth P. Morse |
14:20 - 15:20 |
Panel: The role of universities in converting innovation into impact |
15:20 - 16:05 |
Coffee Break |
16:05 - 17:15 |
Panel: An Introduction to the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem |
17:15 - 18:30 |
Breakout Session: The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem |
20:00 - 23:00 |
Cocktail Reception (Archbishop's Palace)
- Introduction and Welcome by the Mayor of Trondheim
- Keynote: Creating Entrepreneurial Urgency, Dean Kamen
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Day 2 - "Building and Developing Your Entrepreneurial Support Organization (ESO)" |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Presentation: Business Plan Competition Basics |
10:00 - 10:15 |
MIT GSW: Introduction |
10:15 - 11:00 |
Keynote: The Importance of Entrepreneurial Support Systems, Gururaj Deshpande |
11:00 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Track 1:
Emerging Organizations |
Track 2:
Advanced topics for ESOs |
Track 3:
Cases in Sustainability |
11:45- 12:45 |
Panel: Funding Your Successful Support Organization |
Panel:Startup View: the Entrepreneur's Perspective |
Breakout: Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks |
12:45 - 14:15 |
Lunch/Poster Session |
14:15 - 15:15 |
Panel: Connect,
Contribute, Collaborate:
Collaboration Tools |
Panel: Adding Feedback and Experience through Judges and Mentors |
Presentation: BPC in
Developing Countries |
15:15 - 16:15 |
Panel: Helping Teams Raise Their Own Money |
Panel: Measuring Success |
Panel Discussion:
Entrepreneurship Across
Boundaries |
16:15 - 17:00 |
Coffee Break |
17:00 - 18:00 |
Panel: Attracting Participants and Creating Teams |
Panel: Startup to IPO: Paving the Innovator's Road for Success |
Panel: The Role of Intellectual
Property in the
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
(Track 2) |
19:30 - 22:30 |
Dinner |
Day 3 - "Bridging the Gaps in the Global Ecosystem" |
09:00 - 09:30 |
The Entrepreneur's Ecosystem: Wrap-up |
09:30 - 10:00 |
MIT GSW: Introduction |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Keynote: Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations,
Professor Anil K. Gupta |
11:00 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
11:45 - 12:45 |
Panel: Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets |
12:45 - 13:45 |
Panel: What Countries Can do to Promote Entrepreneurship |
13:45 - 15:30 |
Lunch |
15:30 - 16:30 |
Panel: Collaboration Across Borders |
16:30 - 17:30 |
Closing Remarks |
21:00 - LATE |
Gala Dinner (Palm Garden, Britannia Hotel), with Norwegian surprise |
Day 1: Creating the Urgency to Convert Innovation to Impact
Day 1 will focus on identifying solutions to the obstacles facing entrepreneurs in the critical phase of converting innovation to impact. The Norwegian entrepreneurial ecosystem will be highlighted, and solutions to current issues will be discussed on a student, institution, as well as community wide level. The delegates will also have the opportunity to meet in a breakout session within their regions to discuss how they can improve their ecosystem both individually and cooperatively.
Day 2: Building and Developing Your Entrepreneurial Support Organization (ESO)
Day 2 will be how to foster innovation by improving the entrepreneurial support system and fine tune each organization. Discussions will focus on entrepreneurial support organizations and business plan competitions, and apply to novel as well as more mature organizations. The topics presented will be tailored to specific interests through sessions run in multiple parallel tracks. The delegates will also have the opportunity to collaborate with delegates from different regions to complete a case study and share experiences.
Day 3: Bridging the Gaps in the Global Ecosystem
Day 3 will bring all themes together, by widening the scope and looking at how countries interrelate in entrepreneurship. What do different countries do to support entrepreneurship, and what are some of the ways in which they convert innovation to impact successfully, and in a culturally conscious way.
