Technology Entrepreneurship Education:
     Global Faculty Colloquium

This Colloquium is a part of the Intel+UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship Education Partnership that includes the Technology Entrepreneurship Education: Theory to Practice Seminars, and the Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge. These three programs link together to build a complete program for building entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial spirit and activity throughout the world.

The Global Faculty Colloqium was most recently held in November, 2007. It is tentatively scheduled to be held in April, 2009.


The Global Faculty Colloquium provides faculty from around the world with details on how to create and operate a multi-disciplinary, multi-functional entrepreneurship center. As part of the training, faculty will be recognized as having been chosen as leaders in their geographies and encouraged to help others create successful entrepreneurship centers. Attendees will become recognized experts at teaching and supporting entrepreneurship at their institution and in their regional ecosystem.

Invitations to the Colloquium are issued by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Recommendations for invitations can be made directly to the Lester Center by Intel Corporation. Attendees will be selected participants in the Theory to Practice seminars held throughout the world.

Faculty
The Colloquium has been designed by Jerry Engel, Executive Director of the Lester Center, in conjunction with the other entrepreneurship faculty at UC Berkeley. The Colloquium will be taught by a select group of entrepreneurship faculty from UC Berkeley and the Haas School of Business.

The Colloquium
The Colloquium is two weeks of training on rigorous details of entrepreneurship education, ecosystem development and immersion into the operations of the Berkeley entrepreneurship program. We will also make extensive use of the experiences and situations of the participants to drive localization of programs and best practices. At the end of the two-week session, participants will leave with a deep understanding of how they can create value at their institutions and in their regions. They will be prepared to be “master faculty” in their local regions, complete with materials and skills to train others in their communities about entrepreneurship education.

As a participant in the Colloquium, you will have the opportunity to:

1. Develop a broader perspective on entrepreneurship, its role in economic development, and their own role in making entrepreneurship successful in their regions,
2. Focus on their own personal skills and development as a master faculty, and
3. Learn from and assist other master faculty in completely different settings from their own.

This Global Faculty Colloquium will help you frame the issues you face in relation to your peers and will help you build a global network. We expect each of the participants to create forums, classes and educational opportunities for other faculty in their region.

The Colloquium is built around several themes:
• The use of competition and experimentation as tools in building entrepreneurial tendencies in students. By observing the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the participants will experience our brand of competition and how it is organized. We will weave several aspects of the competition into the colloquium.
• Expert modules that look deeply into entrepreneurship as a subject, from marketing to organization to finance.
• A central project that each faculty participant will complete. This project is aimed at creating the necessary materials for each faculty to train others in their region.
• Team projects to build a community among the participants and a sense of joint completion of the Colloquium.
• Several opportunities for participants to contribute material to the seminar.

Schedule
A preliminary schedule for the two week seminar will be posted soon.

Registration
Please return to this site in the future to register.