The first day of The Stanford Technology Venture Program Faculty Fellows is behind us. Other teams come from Aalto(Finland), UDD(Chile),KIT(Lithuania), Warwick(England) and three universities in Uruguay. The day mostly consisted of presentations and descriptions of our challenges and thoughts for the two weeks to come. It was interesting and inspiring to hear how the challenges of the other teams ranged from creating an infrasructure in the gap of academia and business where the government for a long time has opposed this. To others who already has an established knowledge transfer organisation with the need to create an entrepreneurial culture among the faculty staff in order for the entrepreneurial mindset to transpire into the minds of the students through weaving entrepreneurship into the curriculum into all programs and courses.
Stanford staff and coaches did their best to inspire and propel us all in the right direction (in their opinion). Although some of the advice was a bit over the top, like on prime minister level, and others were compilations of 20 years of national development comprised into a single sentence followed by – ”do this and You’ll be fine” the overall impression from the first day was that this will be worth our while.
