Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design (IED) Best Practice encounters

2009 programme: Beyond the start-up: Is there a ’best way’ to scale up a venture?

24 Feb 2009, 16.30 to 18.00
The Promise of Intellectual Capital: creating financial value from IP

• Professor Tom Hoehn – Partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Visiting Professor, Imperial College Business School
• Donal O’Connell – Director IPR, Nokia
• Tony Hadjiloucas – Director Valuation and Strategy, PriceWaterhouse Coopers

24 Mar 2009, 16.30 to 18.00
Growing the Leadership Team: negotiating the founder/manager handover

• Professor Nelson Phillips – Chair in Strategy and Organisational Behaviour, Imperial College Business School
• Michael Anderson – Chairman, MedCell
• Tom Allason – Founder and past CEO, eCourier

28 Apr 2009, 16.30 to 18.00
Emerging Markets: opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs

• Professor Gerard George – Director of Rajiv Gandhi Centre, Imperial College Business Schoo
• Professor Christofer Toumazou – Chief Scientist and Head, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College
• Shantanu Bhagwat – Business Development Partner (Asia), Amadeus Capital Partners

26 May 2009, 16.30 to 18.00
Challenges of Financing Growth: further rounds, restructuring and exits

• Professor Mike Wright – Director, Centre for Management Buy-out Research, University of Nottingham
• Russ Cummings – CIO, Imperial Innovations
• Ernie Richardson –  Managing Partner, MTI 

23 Jun 2009, 17.30 to 19.00
Partnering for Innovation: transforming client/supplier relationships

• Professor Erkko Autio – QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair in Technology Transfer, Imperial College Business School
• Rashik Parmar – CTO, North East Europe IOT, IBM
• Rolf Stahel – Chairman, Chesyl Pharmaceuticals

IED Best Practice’ is organised by the Entrepreneurship Hub at Imperial College Business School and is supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).

Contact details:

Entrepreneurship Hub
Imperial College Business School
Tanaka Building
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

Email: entrepreneurship@imperial.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7594 1438