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Professor Tom Byers - Enduring success factors of tech entrepreneurship
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Date:  Thursday 10th November
Time:  7:30pm
Venue:  East India Club. 16 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LH
Price:  £24 SCGB members, £26 Non-members
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Tom Byers is the professor at Stanford University where he focuses on high-technology entrepreneurship education. He is currently over at the London Business School to help them build their tech entrepreneurship programme. Tom has kindly (and enthusiastically) offered to talk to us about the top 10 enduring factors of tech entrepreneurship.
 
He currently is teaching a New Technology Venture course at the London Business School. The course touches on entrepreneurship as innovation, mapping and assessing opportunities, commercialisation, the culture of innovation, protecting intellectual property rights, financing new ventures, building capabilities, marketing new technologies, creating and assessing strategic options, and extending international reach.
 
He is founder and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship centre for the engineering school. STVP includes the Mayfield Fellows work/study program, Educators Corner website of teaching resources, and global Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education conferences. Tom is also a faculty director of the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute, a general management program for technology executives. Tom is co-author of the textbook called "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise" (McGraw-Hill, 2005). Tom is here in London as a visiting professor at the London Business School and University College London.
 
For his efforts at Stanford, Tom holds an endowed chair known as the McCoy University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. This year, Tom received the 2005 Gores Award for excellence in teaching (the university's highest award) and the 2002 Tau Beta Pi Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching (the engineering school's highest award). He is a recipient of three recent national teaching awards. In 2004, STVP was named the NASDAQ Entrepreneurship Centre of the Year. In the past, Tom was named Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year in Ernst & Young's competition and was given the Academy of Management's Innovation in Entrepreneurship Teaching Award and Price-Babson's Appel Prize for bringing entrepreneurial vitality to academia.
 
Tom holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also earned a PhD in Business Administration (Management Science) at UC Berkeley.
 
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Deadline: 9th November 2005
 
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