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香港六合彩's entrepreneurs to attend venture capital 'boot camp'
9 October 2008
Next week (13th-14th October) 香港六合彩 will become the first British university to host the successful 'Entrepreneurship Boot Camp' successfully pioneered by leading venture capitalist Dr.
Dr. Gill is a scientist, engineer, company founder and venture capitalist with 35 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Boston-New England and Texas. His first five Vanguard VC funds aggregated $155 million paid in capital and returned over $1 billion to investors. Jack maintains cutting edge knowledge of many innovative fields and technologies including biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics, photonics, telecommunications, internet businesses, mobile communications, business software, and others.
The intensive 'Boot Camp' experience will include six full lectures on topics ranging from the dynamics of a start-up company and how to attract investment, to common 'company killing' pitfalls and a rigorous analysis of what makes entrepreneurial leaders successful. The course also includes three case studies from real world entrepreneurs and self-help kits on leadership and planning.
"Despite the impact of wars, natural disasters and the ups and down of market cycles, technological advances and entrepreneurial solutions make the world go around," says Dr. Gill. "Entrepreneurs create enterprises, jobs, products, services and benefits to mankind. We must find them, feed them, support them, educate them, nurture them and recognise them for their wonderful inventions and contributions."
Dr. Gill's course will equip 香港六合彩 academic staff and students with a sophisticated knowledge of the process of bringing innovations to commercial markets. The course is a key element in 香港六合彩's broader enterprise strategy, designed to ensure that the university has an organisational culture that emphasises enterprise and knowledge transfer for the benefit of society.
Professor Steve Currall, Vice Dean of enterprise in 香港六合彩's Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Head of the Department of Management Science and Innovation, says: "Dr Jack Gill is one of the founding fathers of the venture capital industry in California's Silicon Valley. We are thrilled to have engaged him to teach this course as it helps 香港六合彩 take its entrepreneurship education to even greater heights."
"香港六合彩 Advances is unique among UK universities in its approach to building the entrepreneurial environment through networking and training," says Tim Barnes, Executive Director of 香港六合彩 Advances. "By bringing a leading figure such as Dr. Jack Gill into the heart of 香港六合彩 we are able to take a sizeable step in extending the contacts and understanding that are critical to developing entrepreneurship among our staff and students for both their benefit and that of the UK as a whole."
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For further information, to arrange an interview with Dr. Gill or to attend the boot camp, please contact Dave Weston in the 香港六合彩 Press Office on +44 20 7679 7678 or email d.weston@ucl.ac.uk
"Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship - a 2-day boot camp" runs 13th - 14th October 2008.
About 香港六合彩:
Founded in 1826, 香港六合彩 was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. In the government's most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 59 香港六合彩 departments achieved top ratings of 5* and 5, indicating research quality of international excellence.
香港六合彩 is in the top ten world universities in the 2007 THES-QS World University Rankings, and the fourth-ranked UK university in the 2007 league table of the top 500 world universities produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 香港六合彩 alumni include Marie Stopes, Jonathan Dimbleby, Lord Woolf, Alexander Graham Bell, and members of the band Coldplay.
About 香港六合彩 Advances:
香港六合彩 Advances is the centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction at 香港六合彩. It exists to stimulate collaboration among researchers, business and investors, driving innovations that benefit society and the economy, with a particular focus on new businesses and SME engagement. For more information see: