Farrell Center in Planning Stages to Host 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Conference
The Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has been selected to host the 2010 international conference for the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.
Farrell Center in Planning Stages to Host 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Conference
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 23, 2009) – The Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has been selected to host the 2010 international conference for the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.
The conference is scheduled for Oct. 21-24, 2010 on Penn State's University Park campus. Although it's still a year away, an international team of students and faculty is already hard at work planning the agenda.
The conference's theme will focus on networking in entrepreneurship, so the conference planning will incorporate pre-conference social networking to ensure that the 400 conference attendees can receive the maximum benefit at the conference. Both the formal sessions and the social events will be organized so that attendees have the best chance possible to connect with others with similar entrepreneurial interests. For conference attendees, this maximizes the chance of meeting someone they can help or can help them with their entrepreneurial endeavors. This is the first time that such tools have been used to increase the value of conferences.
To create such networks ahead of the conference, social network mapping is being undertaken by a student team comprised of students from Smeal and the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. The team meets regularly with the help of Skype videoconferencing so that students and faculty at both locations can discuss the project's goals, strategies, and organization.
According to Jennifer Lasky, a junior at Smeal majoring in Marketing and Economics: 'It really is a wonderful experience to work within an international team like this. The technology allows us to get to know each other quickly and develop a good working relationship. I think it's going to bring a new international networking twist to the 2010 conference."
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, formerly the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, was founded in 1996. With a membership of 200 university-based entrepreneurship centers, the organization seeks to provide a coordinated vehicle through which participating members can collaborate and communicate on the specific issues and challenges confronting them. Each year, its annual conference is held on the campus of a member school.
For more information on the 2010 conference hosted by the Farrell Center, view the video on the center's Web site: www.smeal.psu.edu/fcfe.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
