Venture Day
Welcome to IE Venture Day 2008, the annual learning and networking event run by IE Business School to promote the creation of new business and to further strengthen the corporate ecosystem needed to nurture entrepreneurial management, a key part of our economy.
Venture Day 2008 is designed to serve as a platform for people interested or experienced in the entrepreneurship process: entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, consultants, experts and academics.
At IE we see entrepreneurship as a thought process focused on the systematic identification, evaluation and development of business opportunities. Hence, we centre on the appreciation and evaluation of opportunities, coupled with achieving the resources needed to put them into practice. This requires a specific mind-set, learning process and behaviour whereby new knowledge meets new ways of understanding and acting.
We aim to create an environment to promote entrepreneurship through four main lines of action: business start-ups, corporate entrepreneurship projects, family businesses and social entrepreneurship projects. By dividing entrepreneurial activities into these four areas we can focus on the features they all share, while examining their idiosyncrasies.
Entrepreneurship consists of putting into practice a business initiative that is independent of any other existing company or entity. Corporate entrepreneurship entails launching a new business project within an existing business organisation. Corporate projects are not merely an addition to the parent company’s portfolio - they comprise a completely innovative activity. Entrepreneurship in family businesses is a similar process except that there is the additional component of the family dimension. Social entrepreneurship comprises the launch of new business projects designed to generate benefits for society.
At IE the entrepreneurial vein runs deep, enabling us to shape attitudes, build skills and equip executives for an extensive career in which entrepreneurship is a predominant management paradigm.
Venture Day is our way of making these concepts a reality by providing IE’s entrepreneurial community with the opportunity to enjoy a full day of discussion on a passion we all happen to share.
Venture Day 2008 is designed to serve as a platform for people interested or experienced in the entrepreneurship process: entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, consultants, experts and academics.
At IE we see entrepreneurship as a thought process focused on the systematic identification, evaluation and development of business opportunities. Hence, we centre on the appreciation and evaluation of opportunities, coupled with achieving the resources needed to put them into practice. This requires a specific mind-set, learning process and behaviour whereby new knowledge meets new ways of understanding and acting.
We aim to create an environment to promote entrepreneurship through four main lines of action: business start-ups, corporate entrepreneurship projects, family businesses and social entrepreneurship projects. By dividing entrepreneurial activities into these four areas we can focus on the features they all share, while examining their idiosyncrasies.
Entrepreneurship consists of putting into practice a business initiative that is independent of any other existing company or entity. Corporate entrepreneurship entails launching a new business project within an existing business organisation. Corporate projects are not merely an addition to the parent company’s portfolio - they comprise a completely innovative activity. Entrepreneurship in family businesses is a similar process except that there is the additional component of the family dimension. Social entrepreneurship comprises the launch of new business projects designed to generate benefits for society.
At IE the entrepreneurial vein runs deep, enabling us to shape attitudes, build skills and equip executives for an extensive career in which entrepreneurship is a predominant management paradigm.
Venture Day is our way of making these concepts a reality by providing IE’s entrepreneurial community with the opportunity to enjoy a full day of discussion on a passion we all happen to share.
Alvaro Sancho,
Associate Director. Department of Entrepreneurship
Associate Director. Department of Entrepreneurship
