Best Practice in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design
Join us for the first encounter in the series:
23 February 2010, 17.30 to 19.00
Internationalisation strategies: Upstream and downstream business models
Panellists:
- Prof. Erkko Autio – QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair in Technology Transfer, Imperial College Business School
- Kees ten Nijenhuis – Senior Vice President, UST Global
- Nick Brooks – Director, Mycologix and Renewables and clean technology entrepreneur
Internationalisation is a major challenge and opportunity for technology-based businesses. Major challenges are related to international expansion and overcoming the liability of foreignness in host markets. Major opportunities lie in the ability to access and mobilise the best resources, wherever these are located. In addition to offering opportunities for expansion, internationalisation is also a costly process, and the cost of inevitable mistakes is rapidly magnified by distance. How should technology-based firms maximise the opportunities and minimise risks? What are the business models that work for internationalisation?
Hear our panel’s views and offer your own. A reception of wine and canapés will follow the event.
About the panel:
Prof. Erkko Autio – QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair in Technology Transfer, Imperial College Business School
Prof. Erkko Autio is the QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. His research focuses on technology venturing, knowledge transfer, new venture internationalisation, and high-growth entrepreneurship. He has published articles in many leading academic journals, and he and his PhD students have received numerous international awards for research excellence. He has also held non-executive directorships in a number of technology-based ventures and venture capital funds, and has consulted widely with industry and government in Europe and Asia. He has held academic positions in Helsinki, London, Geneva, Lausanne and Bangkok.
Kees ten Nijenhuis – Senior Vice President, UST Global
Kees ten Nijenhuis is an Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School and a frequent lecturer at Erasmus University, London Business School and London School of Economics. He has held various international executive and senior positions with blue chip IT organisations, such as Wipro Technologies, Texas Instruments and Siebel Systems. Previously he has been responsible for global business development, including the building and management of large multidisciplinary, matrix sales organisations, together with international operations management, comprising P&L management, HR and recruitment, infrastructure and marketing functions. He has Masters Degrees in Business Administration and Economics from Groningen University and Computer Sciences from the University of Amsterdam.
Nick Brooks – Renewables and clean technology entrepreneur
Nick Brooks has extensive experience internationalising businesses in Asia, Middle East, Central Europe, Africa and the Americas. His sector experience covers oil and chemicals, consumer products, e-learning and renewables. Nick’s ‘first career’ was at Shell International, living and working in Czechoslovakia, France and Poland, leading businesses operating in over 70 countries. From the mid-2000s Nick moved on to CEO a variety of early stage biofuel and bioenergy companies operating in Europe and Africa. He is currently developing a biofuel entry in Brazil, sits on the Advisory Board of a management development company, and is on the Board of Mycologix, an Imperial Innovations 2nd generation biofuels company.
Presentations
Click here to download the slide show presentation from this event.
Location:
LGS, Lower Ground Floor
Imperial College Business School
Tanaka Building
South Kensington Campus
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
Further information:
The series is organised by The Entrepreneurship Hub at Imperial College Business School and is supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).
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Contact details:
E: entrepreneurship@imperial.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 20 7594 1438
W: www.imperial.ac.uk/entrepreneurship