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CYFE Center for Young and Family Enterprise Event Book 2011 Center for Young & Family Enterprise 1 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Our Vision Vision CYFE will be recognized as the place conducting collaborative, multi-disciplinary research on sustainable value creation by enterprising families and family firms through inter-generational reinvention, entrepreneurship and innovation Center for Young & Family Enterprise 2 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Our Mission Mission To achieve excellence in research on enterprising families and young entrepreneurs, that: • contributes to the development of theories of family business • improves international understanding of the Italian family and young enterprises • is relevant to practice Center for Young & Family Enterprise 3 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © GovernanceCYFE - Center del for Centro Young and Family Enterprise Governance Research Group . prof. Lucio Cassia . Director prof. Lucio Cassia . prof. Alfredo De Massis . prof. Tommaso Minola . Management Committee . prof.ssa Silvana Signori prof. Alfredo De Massis (Deputy Director) . prof. Stefano Tomelleri prof. Tommaso Minola . prof. Daphne Halkias prof.a Silvana Signori prof. Stefano Tomelleri . Giovanna Campopiano, PhD student . Josip Kotlar, PhD student . Board of Trustees Miro Radici (Chairman) Gianfranco Gamba Ferruccio Locatelli Vittorio Lumina Roberto Sancinelli . Scientific Committee prof. Jess Chua (Chairman) prof. Sara Carter prof. James Chrisman prof. Alfredo De Massis prof. Frank Hoy prof. Mattias Nordqvist Center for Young & Family Enterprise 4 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Scientific Committee Prof. Jess Chua Prof. Alfredo De Massis Chairman, University of Calgary University of Bergamo, Italy Prof. Sara Carter Prof. Frank Hoy University of Strathclyde, UK Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US Prof. James Chrisman Prof. Mattias Nordqvist Mississipi State University, US Jönköping Business School, Sweden Center for Young & Family Enterprise 5 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Board of Trustees Miro Radici, Presidente Ferruccio Locatelli Gianfranco Gamba Roberto Sancinelli Vittorio Lumina Center for Young & Family Enterprise 6 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Entrepreneurship and Technology Change in Europe GovernanceActivities of del CYFE Centro . International research projects on enterprising families, young entrepreneurs and intra- Research family succession . Conferences, workshop and academic seminars . Management of . Executive education: generational Training and tutoring to transitions and family young and family business governance Knowledge entrepreneurs Education . Mentoring and support Transfer . Undergraduate, to start-up and family graduate and post- firms’ graduate education professionalization programs (PhD, Master) Center for Young & Family Enterprise 7 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © 2011 CYFE EVENTS Center for Young & Family Enterprise 8 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Innovation and entrepreneurship: policies and best practices from the Lombardy Region Event Date Academic Seminar Bergamo, 11th January 2011 Description Images . A joint project within “Economics of Technology change” course . Policies and practice in innovation and entrepreneurship: which room for technological entrepreneurship as an agent of change? Which strategies can be pursued by a regional government? . Speakers – Armando De Crinito, Director Special Unit University and Research – Lombardy Region Presidency; – Prof. Tommaso Minola, Senior Associate of CYFE Center for Young & Family Enterprise 9 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Towards a shared agenda of the Cooperation: the generational transition Event Date Workshop Bologna, 18th January 2011 Description Images . Workshop on the issues that are currently affecting the sector of Cooperatives companies, mainly the generational transition . Speakers – Gianpiero Calzolari, Chairman Granarolo e Legacoop Bologna – Ethel Frassinetti, Director Legacoop Bologna – Filippo Mariano, Chairman SCS Consulting – Stefano Cavazza, Director SCS Consulting – Prof. Alfredo De Massis, Deputy Director of CYFE Center for Young & Family Enterprise 10 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Entrepreneur’s risk attitude, new product introduction and firm growth Event Date Academic seminar Bergamo, 19th January 2011 Description Images . Academic seminar held in collaboration with the Department of Economics & Technology Management of the University of Bergamo . Research title: analysis of the influences of the entrepreneur’s risk attitude on new product development processes in Italian manufacturing firms. Speaker – Prof. Marco Cucculelli, Università Politecnica delle Marche Center for Young & Family Enterprise 11 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © EFMD Entrepreneurship Conference: Does Entrepreneurship Matter? Event Date International Scientific Conference Tallin (Estonia), 21st - 22nd February 2011 Description Images . Entrepreneurship scientific conference by EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) . Entrepreneurship and the perspective of educators, researchers, policy makers and entrepreneurs . Two papers presented by CYFE, one winning the Best Research Paper Award for a study on family involvement in ownership and management of 787 SME and the impact of these variables on the performance of enterprises Center for Young & Family Enterprise 12 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Young entrepreneurs in the new millennium: role and responsibility Event Date Conference Bergamo, 3rd March 2011 Description Images . Annual meeting of the association of the young builders and real estate entrepreneurs (ANCE) . Conference on the role of young entrepreneurs Importance of the role and responsibilities to be a young entrepreneur in the new millennium . Speakers – Vanessa Pesenti, Chair of Young Entrepreneurs ANCE – Prof. Lucio Cassia, Director of CYFE Center for Young & Family Enterprise 13 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Sailing in the storm: Strategic imperatives and managerial challenges for family firms Event Date Conference Pescara, 4th March 2011 Description Images . Conference on the challenges that family enterprises are currently facing, with a focus on the issue of the management of succession processes . Event promoted by the association of young entrepreneurs (Confindustria) about the problems that family firms deal with in order to come out from the global crisis . Speakers – Isabella Pennoni, journalist Abruzzo Economia and Abruzzo Magazine (moderator) – Prof. Alfredo De Massis, Deputy Director of CYFE Center for Young & Family Enterprise 14 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © The internationalization of SMEs: analysis of successful and unsuccessful cases Event Date Academic seminar Bergamo, 30th March 2011 Description Images . A joint project within the course of “Management of Multinational Companies” . Event aimed to show, through the analysis of several cases on Small and Medium Enterprises, the best practices to design and implement entry strategies in foreign markets . Speakers: – Claudio Rossi, Senior Family Business Advisor Unicredit – Prof. Alfredo De Massis, Deputy Director of CYFE Center for Young & Family Enterprise 15 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Inspiring next generation entrepreneurial behavior Event Date Training and mentoring program Bergamo, 21st-31st March 2011 Description Images . The program “Figli d’Impresa” was organized by young entrepreneurs from Confindustria Bergamo to mentor, inspire and steer kids of entrepreneurial families . Lectures organized by CYFE: – Motivational and intentional aspects of engaging in entrepreneurship: challenges for young people (Lucio Cassia) – How to start a new venture (Tommaso Minola) – Generational transitions and the problem of management succession (Alfredo De Massis) – A social learning game: the metaphor of business planning and teamwork (Stefano Tomelleri) Center for Young & Family Enterprise 16 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Business and Entrepreneurship Training for High-School Students Event Date Training and mentoring program Bergamo, 2nd April 2011 Description Images . A training program organized by University of Bergamo to support school student’s attitude towards managerial engineering and entrepreneurship . Lectures organized by CYFE: – Motivational and intentional aspects of engaging in entrepreneurship: challenges for young people – How to start a new venture – The entrepreneurship laboratory: a collaborative game on the difference between management and entrepreneurship . Speaker: – Prof. Tommaso Minola, Senior Associate of CYFE Center for Young & Family Enterprise 17 Università degli Studi di Bergamo © CYFE 2011 CYFE © Entrepreneurship and international business strategies Event Date Academic Seminar Bergamo, 6th April 2011 Description Images . A joint project within the course of “Management of Multinational Companies” . Event aimed to illustrate the lessons learned to design and implement international business strategies in emerging markets through the successful case story of Gruppo MutuiOnline (company traded at Borsa Italiana) . Speakers: – Alessandro Fracassi, CEO and co-Founder Gruppo MOL – Giammarco Tosi, Head of BPO and Processes of Gruppo MOL – Prof. Alfredo De Massis, Deputy Director