Susan Foley, founder of Corporate Entrepreneurs and Executive Director, Research Centers at Babson Executive Education together with a panel of experts will discuss “Intrapreneurship: Fostering Innovation with a Large Organization” at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference, EmTech08, on Tuesday, September 23. Intrapreneurship is combining the entrepreneurial spirit with the resources and goals of a larger organization.
WHAT: EmTech ’08 – Women in Technology Workshop – Panel session on
“Intrapreneurship: Fostering Innovation with a Large Organization”
WHEN: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 3:25 PM (Session B)
WHO: Susan Foley, Founder of Corporate Entrepreneurs, LLC, and
Executive Director, Research Centers at Babson Executive Education
along with a panel of distinguished intrapreneurs
WHERE: MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
REGISTER: https://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/08/register.aspx
TOPIC: The goal of intrapreneurship is to combine the entrepreneurial spirit with the resources and goals of a larger organization. Intrapreneurs can explore high-risk, high-reward ideas within the safety and support of a corporate setting, thereby creating profitable ventures. Intrapreneurs from various industries will discuss how to effectively nurture this kind of innovative thinking and enhance leadership within large companies or labs.
Attendees will learn how to effectively nurture the kind of innovative thinking and leadership required to be an intrapreneur within a large company or lab, and will hear firsthand what it is like to be an intrapreneur. Panelists include:
· Gwen Acton, Founder and CEO Vivo Group, President Woman Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology
· Jennifer Chayes, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England
· Susan Foley, Executive Director Research Centers, Babson Executive Education
· Val Rahmani, General Manager, Internet Security Systems, IBM Global Technology Services
· Holly Heaslet Soutter, Principal Scientist, Lead Discovery Technologies, Pfizer Global Research
For more information on Technology Review’s EmTech ’08 conference, please visit: www.technologyreview.com/emtech/08
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