On Thursday October 8, Dr. Englis will give a presentation about entrepreneurial firms in the context of international strategies.

Location: “The Corridor” , Hengelosestraat 525-527, Enschede

Knowledge intensive firms face many challenges and opportunities in doing business; among these are numerous issues that arise when doing business across national borders. While traditional theories of international expansion tend to focus on incremental internationalization, her discussion centers on rapid and more innovative ways for knowledge intensive firms to expand beyond national boundaries. Using a series of case studies, her presentation will focus on opportunities and competition present in the developed world as well as the rapidly expanding opportunities in less developed and especially from “the bottom of the pyramid.”

The VentureClass is free and open to everyone. Go to the VentureClass application form to register your presence.

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“Accept that you win and lose” came first on the list of ten tips from Roel Pieper, followed by human factors like leadership, commitment and people quality or business factors like scalablity, multi-sourcing and the value stack. Pieper was the fifth VLT VentureClass speaker. The VLT VentureClasses are monthly, public evening sessions by internationally renowned speakers, on entrepreneurship-related themes. Pieper’s audience, well over 60 people, hung on his lips. Pieper also stressed the importance of networks, especially now when finance from banks for starting entrepreneurs is hard to come by. A lively discussion, that continued at the bar, ended the evening.

Fifteen participants from the “VLT summerschool 2009″ received their certificates from VLT’s training director, Jaap van Tilburg. Most summerschool students are international PhD students from the University of Twente. They were trained during 11 subsequent sessions in important topics such as managing people, principles of financial accounting and technology marketing & IP. Their ‘masterpiece’ is a business model, which they presented to VentureLab’s entrepreneurs during the final session of August 18.

The VentureLab team invites you to its public training session and VLT VentureClass on August 24 and 25. You can join the VentureLab entrepreneurs on either August 24th or 25th , or on both days, or just attend the VLT VentureClass by Roel Pieper on Monday evening, August 24.

The 3rd class of the summerschool by Roel Pieper focused on the transition from business idea to the real market.

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