The next RISE Workshop will address the topic of “Practicing and Researching Entrepreneurship” and will take place on February 1st 2007 in Zurich. The workshop will cope with the practicing of entrepreneurship and the researching of this phenomenon contrasting and mutually complementing the perspective of the entrepreneur with the perspective of the researcher.

First, Stefan Arn, CEO of AdNovum Informatik AG will talk about the practicing of entrepreneurship in the context of the internationalization of his software company. He will especially elaborate on recent developments in the company and share his fundamental appraisal of the economic, technological and structural changes in the software business.

Second, Dr. Simon Grand, Academic Director of RISE Management Research will present the perspective of the researcher, talking about “Creation and Convention: Researching Entrepreneurship under Uncertainty". In his presentation, Simon will refer to his research in the context of the software industry especially elaborating on the empirical findings derived from the cases of the software companies Adnovum, Ergon, Netcetera and Avaloq. The presentation reaches beyond an analysis of the specific context of the software industry in attempting to generalize on the role of the entrepreneur and manager in innovation under uncertainty and ambiguity drawing conclusions that are also relevant in other high technology contexts.

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