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University of Adelaide Team First Runner Up – John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge
Congratulations to the University of Adelaide’s team South Australian Biofuels on coming First Runner Up at the John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge last week. South Australian Biofuels were the overall winners of the 2010 eChallenge, and are now busy introducing their portable biofuel unit to the Australian market.
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A Student Platform?
Recently I was approached about mentoring for Aevy which is an online platform that aims to connect academics, alumni and thought-leaders to top students worldwide. Aevy is an organization founded by students, to benefit students. My question is, is this something of interest to our students? If you are intrigued, as I was, please check out the following […]
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eSmart21 seeking sales and marketing assistance
eSMART21, an ECIC ThIncLab incubator business, is seeking sales and marketing assistance for one of their overseas business partner’s products and services for the Australian geographic region. The product is a GPS based fleet management solution, which comes with hardware, software and firmware and details can be found at www.trinetrawireless.com. eSmart21 are looking for a final year student or alumni intern who can help with planning […]
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Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Event
Adelaide Thinkers in Residence
Playing the Long Game: balancing the needs of the future against the ever-demanding present
Societies are focused on the now. We are faster, busier, more distracted. The pace of technology and information is blinding. Business needs short-term results. Planning beyond electoral cycles is harder and harder.
Date:
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Venue:
Adelaide Convention Centre, Hall E, […]
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ECIC adds to ‘The Conversation’
Allan O’Connor was approached last week to contribute to the Group of Eight Universities media website, ‘The Conversation’. The request was to pick up on the theme of the decline in the manufacturing sector. Allan’s article focussed on the role of universities in facilitating economic development. The article has stimulated some comment. See what Allan says by […]
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Student Entrepreneurship: A key to revitalising manufacturing
During 2011, Prof Göran Roos, has been Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence turning his mind to the challenges in the manufacturing sector for South Australia. Professor Roos is a recognised world expert in innovation management and strategy and serves as Honorary Professor at Warwick Business School in the UK. He is founder of Intellectual Capital Services Ltd., […]
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Linking the threads
Entrepreneurship reflections from the UK. From early June through until late August the ECIC Academic Director for post graduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs, Allan O’Connor, will be on study leave. During his time away (mainly at the University of Edinburgh, UK), he will from time to time post observations, challenges, new insights and reflections encountered […]
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Congratulations LEAPIN!
eChallenge prize winners LEAPIN recently represented the University of Adelaide in the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Foundation Graduate Student Business Plan Competition in London, defeating an impressive field of universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, just to qualify.
LEAPIN’s remote access control and security systems “enables hotel guests to leap past the check-in desk and go […]
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Ecosystem Responsibility and Roles
Entrepreneurship reflections from the UK. From early June through until late August the ECIC Academic Director for post graduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs, Allan O’Connor, will be on study leave. During his time away (mainly at the University of Edinburgh, UK), he will from time to time post observations, challenges, new insights and reflections encountered […]
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