The Institute for Family Enterprising Blog brings you the latest in events, research and thoughts from within the nexus of family business and entrepreneurship. We will also use authors and findings from our major research arm - the STEP Project.
Last week we began the STEP Project in Asia Pacific region with a launch on June 27-28. Hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, we had 11 Universities from all over Asia and Australia. Click here for a list of all of our new Asia Pacific partners. It was a great two days with fresh faces and institutions getting excited about family enterprising. We have received a lot of positive feedback and really feel the power of changing the way that people are thinking about family businesses.
The Asia Pacific launch was taken to a higher level with the gracious hosting and intelligent design of CUHK and their team of Kevin Au, Bee-leng Chua and Hugh Thomas. CUHK coordinated a family business forum for June 29th, immediately following the STEP academic launch. There were over 100 participants at this event with about two thirds being family business executives and owners. The pool of research resources that STEP brought to Hong Kong with the launch provided natural synergy for CUHK's forum. Tim Habbershon gave the keynote on "Transgenerational Entrepreneurship" and a session on "Finding your Familiness Advantage, and there was a panel session featuring researchers from the STEP Asia Pacific network. Following Tim's keynote, there was even a STEP launching ceremony for the audience and media with each partner institution putting together a piece of a puzzle.
We are thrilled with the energy coming out of the Asia Pacific region and can't wait to see what we will learn about family enterprising in the family context.
Posted by Robert Nason on July 07, 2007 11:18 | link
