GLOBAL STARTUP WORKSHOP 2007

Converting Innovation to Impact

Trondheim, Norway

March 26 - 28, 2007

GSW 2007 Highlights

• Presentations and panel discussions on "Creating the Urgency to Convert Innovation to Impact"
- Critical Success Factors in Entrepreneurship
- The Role of Universities in Converting Innovation to Impact
- An Introduction to the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem


• Presentations and panel discussions on "Building & Developing Your Entrepreneurial Support Organization (ESO)"
- Business Plan Competition Basics
- The Importance of Entrepreneurial Support Systems

Emerging Organizations
- Funding Your Successful Support Organization
- Connect, Contribute, Collaborate: Collaboration Tools
- Helping Teams Raise Their Own Money
- Attracting Participants and Creating Teams

Advanced Topics for ESOs
- The Startup View From the Entrepreneur's Perspective
- Adding Feedback and Experience through Judges and Mentors
- Measuring Success
- Startup to IPO: Paving the Innovator's Road for Success
- The Role of Intellectual Property in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Cases in Sustainability
- Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks
- BPC in Developing Countries
- Entrepreneurship Across Borders
- Attracting Participants and Creating Teams


• Presentations and panel discussions on "Bridging Gaps the Gaps in the Global Ecosystem"
- Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations
- Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
- What Countries Can Do to Promote Entrepreneurship
- Collaboration Across Borders

Keynote Speakers

- Gururaj Deshpande, Founder, Sycamore Networks and MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
- Anil Gupta, Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIM, Coordinator, SRISTI and Honey Bee Network, and EVC for the National Innovation Foundation
- Dean Kamen, Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
Ken Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Sponsors

PLATINUM

Statoil	Innovation Norway	SpareBank 1

GOLD

NTNU	ScanWind