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Entrepreneurship Indonesia
Ist Indonesian Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small BusinessesThis conference was run by the School of Business and Management – Institut Teknologi Bandung and the Centre for Indonesian Entrepreneurship and Leadership.
Gerald Lidstone was an invited speaker for this conference. This was an exceptional conference covering entrepreneurial initiatives across the region with a focus on eco-entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship as well as more standard business models. With over one hundred papers and workshops it showed that ITB fully justifies its worldwide status for research in innovation in technology and business, with many students on the e-track programme creating new ventures while they are still students.
The Keynote speaker was Professor Howard Frederic , Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Unitech Institute of Terchnology , New Zealand . Other featured Speakers with Gerald were Sandaga Uno Chairman of the Indonesian Entrepreneurs Association , Tri Mum Puni, from her own NGO People Centred Business and Economic institute (IBEKA) concentrating on Pro-Poor infrastructure providing water supply and electricity from renewable sources and Commissioner Bangun S. Kus muljono Chairman of the National committee of Finance Indonesia with experience from joint venture banking to the Young Entrepreneurs Association.
The conference was attended by the Vice President of Indonesia and Gerald had the opportunity to have lunch with him.
The conference was organised By Dwi Larso the Director of the Centre for Innovation ,Entrepreneurship & Leadership, who visited Goldsmiths this year. ICCE will receive two PhD students from this Centre in 2009/10 and will next year develop further partnership activity.
The conference demonstrated the extraordinary range of innovation and entrepreneurial thinking and skills in this part of Asia that are clearly leading the world and could be leant from and applied in many western contexts.
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