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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group newsletter UK~IRC Innovation Summit 2010: Re-thinking the Impact of Innovation The UK~IRC Innovation Summit takes place on 7 December 2010 in Cambridge. Entitled Re-thinking the Impact of Innovation, it features presentations from BP, IBM, The Wellcome Trust, RCUK and HEFCE. The Summit draws on international public and private sector experience of best practice methodologies to assess the impact of innovation activities. Attention will also be paid to the similar range of problems faced in this area by major charitable and third sector funders who have major investments in support of research. Confirmed speakers include: Dr Irving Wladawsky- Berger, VP Emeritus, IBM and an Adjunct Professor with the I&E Group; Liz Allen, Senior Evaluation Adviser, The Wellcome Trust; David Docherty, Chief Executive of the Council For Industry and Higher Education and Mari Williams, Chair, RCUK Performance Evaluation Group. The Summit is free to attend but please submit a registration form, available at http://tinyurl.com/uk-irc2 Top, from left: Dr Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM; David Docherty, CIHE. Gerry George awarded ESRC Professorial Fellowship Professor Gerry George has been appointed as a Professorial Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – cementing his position as one of the top UK academics. “ESRC Fellows have an outstanding track record of research and are acknowledged scholarly leaders in their field at an international level,” the conditions explain. Professor George has been honoured particularly for his work on innovation for inclusive growth that focuses on constrained-resource innovation. “I am interested in developing a framework and causal theory,” he explains, “my contribution will be to help adapt them to the experience of poorer communities at the bottom of the pyramid”. 2 Business School Principal Professor David Begg said: “This is brilliant news. With this award Gerry quite rightly joins an elite group of the UK’s most influential and internationally important academics”.
www.imperial.ac.uk/innovationstudies Design London Incubator selects new ventures The Design London Business Incubator concluded its search for new incubatees in November 2010. During bootcamp week the seven shortlisted ventures were put through a gruelling schedule of intensive training and mentoring, to help them prepare for their final pitches to the Review Board. Imperial nominated for Times Higher Education Award The I&E Group has made a substantial contribution to Imperial’s Times Higher Education Award nomination in the category of Entrepreneurial University of the Year. The Entrepreneurship Hub, Design London and the Microsoft Innovation Outreach Programme were highlighted in the bid as central to the College’s enterprise culture. Pro Rector (Enterprise) Edward Astle is ‘delighted that the College’s activities in this area have been recognised. The College strives to stimulate an enterprise culture at every level and in each faculty, and it is firmly embedded in our teaching and multi-disciplinary research activities.’ The winners are announced in a THE ceremony on 25 November 2010. From top: Winner Zara Gorman with judges Nick Leon and Nadia Danhash; Incubator Head Oliver Van Emden with Vishaul Shah of SOS Locks. After much anticipation, StickSafe/KwikScreen, SeaBoard, SOS Locks and Zara Gorman were selected to join the Incubator. All the presentations and ideas were of an amazingly high standard, and the judging panel had a difficult task deciding the winners. Ultimately, however, the final ventures were selected after exhibiting compelling reasons for investment. Design London Director, Nick Leon, who chaired the judging panel, was impressed by the calibre of applicants: “To get from 120 entries down to four winners was almost impossibly difficult and I am confident there are yet more award-winners among them”. Along with a stake of over £200,000 that Design London will be investing, the winners will have access to mentoring, executive education, support raising additional finance, and managed space and associated support. 3 Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference The I&E Group hosted the successful 4th Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference on 30 September to 2 October 2010, examining the value of entrepreneurship to economic development and its drivers in different contexts. This multinational conference was a forum for entrepreneurship researchers, development professionals and policy practitioners. Organised by Professor Erkko Autio, the conference attracted leading entrepreneurship scholars including Niels Bosma and Laszlo Serb. Papers covered topics as diverse as gender, regionalisation and cultural contexts. The I&E Group was delighted to host this high-level academic conference and to work with sponsors the UK~IRC, George Mason University, CESIS and the University of Strathclyde.
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