UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance Centre: Technology Entrepreneurship

Finding and evaluating entrepreneurial ideas are critical founding blocks of the entrepreneurial journey. An internationally renowned entrepreneurship researcher and educator, Prof. Scott Shane uses original research, interactions with entrepreneurs, and consulting experience to show how individuals and organizations can systematically search and evaluate economic potential of ideas. He will run a workshop on Opportunity Recognition and Technology Evolution. The session on industry evolution draws on strategic management and entrepreneurial opportunities in changing technology environment.

Event Details:
Date: 04 Nov 2008, Tuesday
Time: 3:30 – 6:30pm
Venue: Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Seminar Room 2. 2, Level 2, 50 Stamford Road, Singapore 178899

If you are interested to attend, kindly click here to register. Seats are limited and places will be allotted on a first-come-first -served basis. Admission is free.
Only successful applicants would be notified through email by 03 Nov.

Trainer Profile
The author of over 60 scholarly articles on entrepreneurship and innovation management, Dr. Shane’s work has appeared in Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Decision Sciences, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, among other journals. He has written or edited ten books, Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By, Technology Strategy for Managers and Entrepreneurs, Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures; From Ice Cream to the Internet: Using Franchising to Unlock the Potential of Your Business; Academic Entrepreneurship: University Spinoffs and Wealth Creation, A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus, Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management, Economic Development Through Entrepreneurship: Government, University and Business Linkages and Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective (with Robert Baron). Dr. Shane has served as editor of special issues of Research Policy on “Technology Entrepreneurship” and Management Science on “University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer”. He currently serves as editor of the R&D, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Division of Management Science. Dr. Shane’s Ph.D. is from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His previous faculty appointments include University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research examines: (1) how entrepreneurs discover and evaluate opportunities, assemble resources, and design organizations; (2) university spin-offs and technology transfer; (3) business format franchising; (4) angel investing; and (5) genetic factors in entrepreneurship. Dr. Shane has consulted to numerous large and small organizations, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. He is also an angel investor and member of the Northcoast Angel Network.

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