Nei giorni 21-23 settembre si terrà a Pavia presso la Facoltà di Economia il convegno International Entrepreneurship, giunto alla 15ma edizione e per laprima volta in Italia.
Il tema del convegno è di particolare attualità : studiosi e imprenditori si confronteranno sul tema di come alimentare e rendere sostenibili i modelli di business delle start up, soprattutto di quelle ad elevata intensità di conoscenza e ricerca. L’imprenditorialità high tech e accademica oggi si deve confrontare fin dagli esordi con le sfide dei mercati globali e ciò rende necessario lo sviluppo di modelli gestionali adeguati. Il convegno sarà preceduto da un doctoral program destinato a 25 dottorandi divarie parti del mondo e vedrà un momento di interesse -non solo accademico- dalle 14 alle 16 presso la Sala Dell’Annunciata in PiazzaPetrarca, quando alcuni giovani imprenditori discuteranno del processo di nascita e sviluppo delle loro loro start up. Il Business workshop sarà presieduto da Alberto Onetti, Fondazione Mind The Bridge e Università dell’Insubria e da Stefano Denicolai, Università di Pavia. Il programma accademico verrà aperto alle 16.30, sempre nella Sala Dell’Annunciata, da due interventi di grande profilo internazionale: la professoressa Patricia McDougall- Covin della Indiana University e il professor Peter Liesch, dell’Università di Brisbane, due tra i maggiori esperti mondiali di imprenditorialità .
Tutte le informazioni sono disponibili sul sito http://economia.unipv.it/mcgill/
Gli ospiti internazionali
Patricia McDougall is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Research and the William L. Haeberle Professor of Entrepreneurship at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
She helped pioneer the growing field of international entrepreneurship. She and her co-author, Benjamin Oviatt, were presented the 2004 JIBS Decade Award for their 1994 article on the early internationalization of new ventures. The award is given to the article that has had the most significant impact on international business research during the past decade. Her major research interests include accelerated internationalization and new venture strategies. Her business cases appear in more than twenty-five books, and her research has also been presented in the business press, including Inc. magazine, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.
She is a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow, the former Chair of the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division and is a current or former member ofnine editorial boards. In a survey published in the Journal of Management she was identified as the third most published author in entrepreneurship. Formerly, she was a Professor at the Georgia Institute. While at Georgia Tech, she served as the co-principal investigator of two major National Science Foundation grants with the Electrical and Computer Engineering School and the Engineering Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in strategic managementfrom the University of South Carolina
Peter Liesch is Professor of International Business and Chair of the Strategy Cluster, UQ Business School at The University of Queensland, Australia. He has been Head of the School of Management at both the University of Tasmania and The University of Queensland. He is a Professional Member of the Economic Society of Australia (Qld. Inc) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. His Ph.D. in Economics,written on the topic of government mandated-countertrade, was awarded by The University of Queensland. Professor Liesch has served on many university committees across several campuses, institutional review panels, tenure and promotion committees, and he has served terms on The University of Queensland Standing Committee of its Academic Board. His teaching commitments are mainly in the UQ Business School’s MBA Program, alongside doctoral thesis supervision. He is a Vice-President of the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy.
His primary research interests include: internationalisation of the firm, alternative systems of inter-firm exchange, and international business operations in their diversity, both their strategies and organisational forms. Recent research projects completed include international terrorism and its effects on international firm decision-taking, offshoring of economic activity, and conceptions of time in internationalising firms. Professor Liesch has recently completed, with co-authors, an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant researching the pre-internationalisation phase of early and rapidly internationalising firms. He has an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant on a project titled ‘Through the Eyes of the Chinese: Attitudes to and Opinions of Australia and their Influence on Sino-Australian Business Exchange’. He was funded recently by the Australian Business Foundation for a study on platforming and value appropriation in early internationalising firms. In 2009, with colleagues, he was awarded a four-year Australian Research Council Linkage Grant to research institutional logics in the healthcare sector.
He has published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Management Decision, International Journal of Technology Management, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing, International Marketing Review and others. With Dowling, Gray and Hill, he recently published with McGraw-Hill an Asia-Pacific Edition of the textbook, International Business. He is Editor of the Management & Entrepreneurship Department at the Journal of World Business and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Management.
