CENTER FOR BUSINESS
AS AN AGENT OF WORLD BENEFIT

Green Mountain Research Cafe

Innovative Strategies in Global Sustainability Entrepreneurship October 12th, 2005 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

• Panelists Dr. Cyrus Taylor, Ms. Lyndy Wertman and Dr. Bo Carlsson lead a lively discussion regarding basic issues associated with entrepreneurship. Facilitated by Dr. David Bright, a research fellow with The Center for BAWB, the panel used the university as an example of a setting where work toward societal causes can find grounding.

• Join us for an informal gathering of people interested in exploring the role of business in society, in a friendly space where you can interact, build relationships, and develop interdisciplinary connections across campus.

• Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

• The Center for B·A·W·B, located in room 208 of the Peter B. Lewis Building at the Weatherhead School of Management on the Case campus.

• R.S.V.P. to Bonnie West at 216-368-3809 or bawb@case.edu. Then join us in a fun, relaxed atmosphere and energetic exchange of ideas.

• Following the success of its first Green Mountain Research Cafe, this second event, entitled "Innovative Strategies in Global Sustainability Entrepreneurship", will focus on the process of entrepreneurship as related to the development of sustainable technological innovation. It will address the primary question of: what are the factors that allow for and foster the emergence of entrepreneurship at the intersections of innovations, business and society? Particular attention will be paid to initiating discussions about the development of sustainable technologies and the relationship to social entrepreneurship, which might be defined as work on innovation intended to create benefit to society.
  
  Panelists Dr. Cyrus Taylor, Ms. Lyndy Wertman and Dr. Bo Carlsson will lead the discussion. Dr. Taylor, is the director of the nationally recognized Physics Entrepreneurship Program, the director of the Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Program, and the director of the Institute for Technology Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (InTICE) at Case. His work aims to help students, researchers, and business leaders to successfully link technology among universities and business.
  
  Ms. Wertman is the Manager of Operations for the Wright Fuel Cell Group at Case, an example of innovation in action, and has a long history of work in sustainability entrepreneurship. She has worked with the Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy, and has conducted research on sustainability for an agricultural government in Australia.
  
  Dr. Carlsson is a distinguished member of the economics faculty at Weatherhead and has a research interest in the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth. He has written widely on the factors that allow for the emergence of entrepreneurship and innovation. Part of his perspective comes from his research on industrial dynamics in Scandinavia, home to his native Sweden. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics.
  
  Facilitated by Dr. David Bright, a research fellow with B·A·W·B, this research cafe will endeavor to develop a broader awareness among university colleagues of the range of activities involving the intersection of business and society taking place across the Case campus and to raise the potential for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration.