Forty-seven professors and officials from 12 countries are converging at the Haas School, starting today, for two weeks of entrepreneurship training at the inaugural Technology Entrepreneurship Education Global Faculty Colloquium.
The colloquium was designed by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation with assistance from the Center for Executive Development. It is part of the Intel + UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship Education Program, which aims to foster entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial activity around the world.
"Over two years ago Intel Corporation's higher education group selected the Lester Center to help it develop and deploy a program to encourage the development of entrepreneurship education in key markets around the world," says Jerome Engel, the executive director of the Lester Center. "The result has been 19 seminars in 15 countries and over 400 faculty trained. Now the best of the best are coming to Berkeley for in-depth work."
Global Faculty Colloquium attendees will hone their teaching skills, learn how to create and run interdisciplinary entrepreneurship centers, and help other institutions build their entrepreneurship programs. While at Berkeley, they will immerse themselves into the Lester Center's entrepreneurship program, attend classes, observe the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and other experiential learning activities, and benefit from sessions led by the Haas School;s teaching faculty.
"Our goal is to help create master faculty," says David Charron, research director of the Lester Center. "They will be prepared to return to their regions not only to train students on how to start successful businesses but to support other entrepreneurship trainers."
All of the attendees are involved in active entrepreneurship programs across the globe, from Brazil to Russia. They will be taught by Haas School faculty, including the Lester Center's Executive Director Jerome Engel, Lester Center Research Director David Charron, Assistant Professor Pino Audia, Senior Lecturer Sara Beckman, Lecturer Steve Blank, Professor Jenny Chatman, Adjunct Professor Henry Chesbrough, Lecturer John Danner, Lecturer Sean Foote, Professor John Freeman, Adjunct Professor Drew Isaacs, Lecturer Rob Majteles, Todd Morrill, Lecturer Ron Star, and Professor Hal Varian.
For more information, visit http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/intelGFC.asp.
