Knowledge Economy Workshops Series:

RI-CIE: Business Innovation Accelerator

Keynote Speaker materials (posted 6/5/09):

Summary report and next steps to be posted shortly!

 

Business Innovation Accelerator Agenda

Supporting entrepreneurship and business growth in Rhode Island with research, best practices, and new ideas

Tuesday May 19, 2009, 9AM – 3:30 PM

Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI-CIE)
One Davol, Suite 200, Providence, RI 02903

Purpose: A gathering of stakeholders and partners to discuss business accelerators and define the role and activities of the new RI-CIE

Who Should Attend: Rhode Island business people, university students and faculty, government and non-profit agencies. 

A Day-long, interactive workshop:

  • Phase I: Morning presentations and discussions with nationally recognized experts in innovation and entrepreneurship who will help set the stage
  • Networking Lunch
  • Phase II: Afternoon facilitated break-out sessions for participants to provide suggestions and recommendations to define RI-CIE’s role and activities
  • Use of facilitators and scribes throughout the day to capture information and produce action-oriented next steps

Agenda:

PHASE I: Setting the Stage

9 am:  Take a look at the CIE office space, meet colleagues, new and old (coffee and light refreshments)

9:30:      Morning Session and Keynote Presentations:

  • Clyde Briant, Vice President for Research, and Otis Randall University Professor, Brown University
    Welcome
  • Angus Kingon, Brown University Barrett Hazeltine Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizational Studies, Professor of Engineering, and Director, Program in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship
    Facilitator for morning session
  • Don Siegel , Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at the University at Albany, SUNY
    Lessons learned from Research on the Effectiveness of University Technology Transfer
  • Allan Tear, Managing Partner of Aptus Collaborative
    An Inventory on the Rhode Island Environment
  • Rich Bendis, President and CEO Innovation America
    Building a Business Innovation Accelerator to meet Rhode Island’s needs: Lessons from other States

PHASE II: Working

Working Lunch

12:00:  Participant discussion over lunch; questions to prompt break-out sessions will be distributed

1:00: Small group break-out sessions addressing issues such as business sectors most in need of support, program priorities, key strategic considerations, studies/research needed, how to build an effective support network.

2:30: Coordinated reporting from all groups, comments from visiting experts and discussions from the audience, commitment to next steps.

3:30:  Adjournment

 

Funded by a planning grant from the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Innovation Providence Implementation Council (IPIC) and the Providence Economic Development Partnership.