Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit
The first Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit - Academics Meet Practitioners, is a one-day summit which brings together the latest insights on corporate venturing & entrepreneurship, both from a practitioner as well as from an academic perspective. Professionals from corporates and researchers from academia from all over Europe will share their knowledge and experiences on the different aspects of Corporate Venturing. The Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 is organized by Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), The School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University and Corporate Venturing Network.

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 |
11:15 – 11:30 | Break |
11:30 – 12:30 | Session 2: Corporate Venture Capital – beyond capital |
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 |
15:00 – 15:15 | Break |
15:15 – 16:15 | The Debate: Nature versus Nurture |
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”