"Entrepreneurship, A Driver for Innovation and Technology"

Discover the proceedings of the fourth World Entrepreneurship Forum, Singapore, November 2011.

Einstein, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

High-Growth companies: technology is not enough

• The Banyan Tree Case
• Remaining innovative
• Current financing mechanisms kill off the long-term builders
• The rising risk-aversion does not foster high-growth
• Accelerating the creation of « born-global » companies
• Re-thinking long-term links between spin-offs and their university of origin
• Start-ups: surviving the cooperation with large groups
• The high-growth entrepreneur: a high-performance athlete Proposals

Entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid: the power of technology

• The Case of Healthpoint Services
• Successful alliances between technology, innovation and BoP entrepreneurs
• Microfinance, another case of successful use of technology
• Singapore at the forefront of BoP

Beyond Entrepreneurial Hubs: Creative Cities

• Guiding principles in Lyon, France
• Public Incubation Hubs in New York vs. Smart Use of technology in Bangalore
• The case of Gothenberg (Göteborg), Sweden

Education: the Entrepreneur Hides in the Garage

• Entrepreneurial Education encompasses more than a startup focus
• The issue of assessment
• Experiential education
• Community learning
• Who shall teach entrepreneurship?
• Entrepreneurship Education and Higher Education
• Role of luck in entrepreneurship
• The Reasonable Adventurer
• A specific portal ?
• High-tech vs. low-tech entrepreneurship
• Connecting educators

Entrepreneurship Box

• Forget developing and developed worlds : just connect
• Entrepreneurial Education in Africa: a question
• Can Africa benefit from high-growth entrepreneurship ?
• Nurturing entrepreneurs : when MNC a University ally
• Entrepreneurial leadership as a key to innovate - and motivate
• Women entrepreneurs: a new community bank
• When governments could help
• 4-year old entrepreneurs
• Crowdfunding for all: a global challenge
• Charity: use with caution
• Developing Innovation Policies beyond R&D: the Middle-East case
• And the next innovation hotbeds are