Seminar "Graduate Education in Innovation & Entrepreneurship research"

experiences with combined MSc & PhD

28 January 2010 

On 28 January a seminar on graduate education in innovation and entrepreneurship research takes place, specifically addressing experiences with combined (joint) MSc & PhD trajectories and the relevance and importance of various types of (local/national/international) doctoral networks in education of Innovation and Entrepreneurship researchers.

Paul Coughlan, who will give the key note address on this seminar is the past president of EIASM (www.eiasm.org), the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management, and still a member of the EIASM board. At EIASM, Paul's responsibility includes among others the monitoring of EIASMs long standing doctoral education network EDEN, the doctoral education discussion with the academic members and the stimulation of doctoral networks for research and education. Panellists include respresentatives from EITIM and EITIMdoc (www.eitim.org), ECIU partner TU Hamburg-Harburg and ERIM, de onderzoeksschool van Rotterdam School of Management who has received  a grant in 2009 from NWO for their pilot programme for graduate schools iniated by Minister Plasterk of the Netherlands.
The seminar is organised and supported by the departments NIKOS and OOHR of the Faculty of Management and Governance, in liaison with Twente Graduate School and the institute for research on Innovation and Governance Studies - IGS at the University of Twente.
 
Participation in the seminar is free of charge. Those who wish to attend can send an e-mail to: Marie Christine Predery (m.c.predery@utwente.nl)

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12.00-13.15: Buffet lunch in the " Foyer" of the Vrijhof building

13.15 Paul Coughlan (Trinity College, Dublin, and EIASM) on "PhD Education and doctoral Networks in Innovation Management"

14.00 Jan Kratzer (TU Berlin) on "MSc Education in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Reseacrh"

 14.30 Panel discussion:  Introduction & discussion leader: Prof. Aard Groen

Combined MSc and PhD trajectories and the importance of Doctoral Education Networks in Innovation & Entrepreneurschip Research"

Panellists:Prof Paul Coughlan, Prof. Jan Kratzer, Prof. Petra de Weerd-Nederhof, Frank Tietze (respresenting also EITIMdoc), Prof. Cornelius Herstatt (representing ECIU partner TUHH) and Prof. Jan van der Ende (Rotterdam School of Management, representing also the ERIM Graduate School).

16.00 Inaugural adressed by Prof.Petra de Weerd-Nederhof:
" Organising Innovation is an act of Balancing"