Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit

See the RSM website: https://www.rsm.nl/corporateventuringsummit/

The summit will bring together the latest academic insights in corporate venturing as well as best practices and lessons learned from leading European companies. The programme offers a mix of key note speakers, a panel discussions and tandem sessions in which a topic will be discussed from a theoretical/academic point of view as well as from a practical standpoint. It is a unique opportunity to network with corporate venturing professionals, researchers and VC’s.

The target audience for this summit are corporate innovation and venturing professionals and people involved in creating new business within their company as well as academics, conducting research on corporate venturing and entrepreneurship. For practitioners, the added value is to be inspired by good practices from peers and latest academic insights. For academics, this conference is particularly interesting as it will help them to increase their awareness of contemporary issues in corporate venturing practice, thereby increasing the impact of their work.

Programme

08:30 – 09:00	Registration and coffee/tea
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome and Introduction
09:15 – 09:45	Keynote speaker – Christian Lindener – CEO Wayra Germany
09:45 – 10:00	Keynote Speaker – Professor Geerd Duysters – Tilburg University
10:00 – 10:15	Keynote Speaker – Professor Vareska van de Vrande – RSM
10:15 – 11:15	Session 1: Corporate Venturing in family firms Corporate speaker: Renier van Herel – Head of Innovation Damen Shipyards Academic speaker: Professor Tommaso Minola - University of Bergamo
11:15 – 11:30	Break
11:30 – 12:30	Session 2: Corporate Venture Capital – beyond capital Corporate speaker: Tobias Gutmann — corporate experience & researcher at HHL Academic speaker: Joshua Eckblad — startup experience & researcher at Tilburg University
12:30 – 12:45	Wrap-up morning session
12:45 – 13:30	Lunch and networking
13:30 – 14:00	State of the art of corporate venturing - a tour of the most recent data
14:00 – 15:00	Session 3: Creating Value through spin-offs Corporate speaker: Rolph Segers – Technology Transfer Office – TNO Academic speaker: Ivo de Nooijer – Advisor Public Private Innovation & former director of LURIS (Leiden University's Knowledge Transfer Office)
15:00 – 15:15	Break
15:15 – 16:15	The Debate: Nature versus Nurture Ingrid Verheul – Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship – RSM Oriol Pascual Oriol Pascual - Director of IQS Tech Factory, Barcelona Magdalena Cholakova – Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship – RSM Frank Appeldoorn - Managing Partner Arches Capital
16:15 – 16:45	Wrap up afternoon session & Closing
16:45 – 17:45	Network drinks

The moderator of the day will be Danny Mekic, speaker, adviser and entrepreneur on innovation & technology. Danny was awarded by magazines such as Sprout, Quote and Elsevier as "Most successful young entrepreneur”