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Professor Bart Clarysse, Imperial College Business School, presents his inaugural lecture “High Tech Entrepreneurs: What is their Role in the Economy?”.
Abstract: Since technology has become accepted as a major driver of the global economy, large companies have been looking for effective ways to manage emerging and pacing technologies. Increasingly, “entrepreneurship” at both an organisational and individual level has been considered as an effective mechanism to optimize the commericalisation of these technologies. However, despite this, little is known about how high tech entrepreneurs realise their successes. In this lecture, I will analyse how high tech entrepreneurs build legitimacy to optimize their value for potential buyers. Doing so, they bridge the gap between early adopter markets that are of little interest to incumbents and the volume markets. Building such a company appears to be very different from the classic entrepreneurial view on reality.
Biography: Bart Clarysse holds the Chair in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Bart joined the Entrepreneurship Centre in 2007 from Nottingham University business school and Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School where he taught innovation and technology management, entrepreneurial marketing and entrepreneurship. He is a founder of several high tech start-ups in businesses such as digital cinema, mobile internet and venture incubation. Following his Phd studies, Bart was an advisor in technology policy at the European Commission and he still consults on innovation and technology matters for various European governments and agencies. He is founding partner and non-executive director of Inceptum, a software investment company and he sits on the board of Mobixx, a mobile internet start-up. He also is an advisor in innovation policy to the Flemish Government, the Belgian Government and European Commission. He has over 50 publications in the field of high tech start-ups and managing growth of these companies and has been an executive teacher for several multinationals such as KLM, Belgacom, Recticel, USG People, Johnson&Johnson in corporate venturing and innovative turnaround strategies.
His on-going research interests include the analysis of acquisition decisions by established companies to enter new technological domain or adjacent markets. He analysis the growth strategies of technology ventures in adjacent markets and the valuation patterns of these ventures.
In the Chair: Professor David Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London Business School
A pre-lecture tea, coffee and cake reception with be served in the Lower Ground Foyer in the Tanaka Building, from 16.45, a post lecture reception will follow the lecture also in the Lower Ground Foyer.
To register for this lecture please email Laura Brown, l.brown@imperial.ac.uk.