JCU Events

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

JCU Success Workshop: Entrepreneurship

When: 16 November 2020, 10am to 12pm

Location:Online Webinar

Overview

Entrepreneurship is as old as humanity itself. In today’s world, large corporations in different industries define how we interact, transport and operate in our daily lives. Many of these large corporations started as a small firm. That is the true spirit of entrepreneurship. It is not about the size of your company when you start. It is about taking advantage by value-adding opportunities and providing solutions to existing problems in society.

This workshop introduces entrepreneurship from a historical perspective before acquainting you with entrepreneurship of the modern world that we live in today as well as some information about entrepreneurship for the future. Besides historical and contemporary perspectives on entrepreneurship as a practice and as a research field, the basics of new venture creation and business models will be discussed.

Date

16^th Nov 2020

Time

10:00am - 12:00pm GMT+8 (Singapore)

Speaker Profile

Dr. Dr. Emiel Eijdenberg
Senior Lecturer, Business

After obtaining his PhD degree in 2016, Dr. Eijdenberg worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany (2016 – 2019). Dr. Eijdenberg’s research interests are about entrepreneurs(hip) in emerging countries. Dr. Eijdenberg is particularly interested in the personal attributes of entrepreneurs and how these attributes are related to the sustainable growth of their businesses. Dr. Eijdenberg’s work has been presented at international management conferences such as AoM, ESU, EURAM, ICSB and RENT. See for Dr. Eijdenberg’s publications: Scholar Google profile.

For research and consulting projects, Dr. Eijdenberg has secured in collaboration with others close to € 500,000 in funding from multiple organisations such as the Dutch organisation of internationalisation in education (NUFFIC) and Volkswagen Foundation. In these projects, Dr. Eijdenberg is involved as an expert for short and long-term assignments in, amongst others, Burundi, Ethiopia, Oman, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.