REGISTERED ACTIVITIES/EVENTS

GEW 2012

Webinar: Commercializing High-Tech Innovations in a Complex Global Marketplace – The “Network-Centric” Approach

Virtual Event (Webinar), California

13 November 2012-14 November 2012

On Tuesday, November 13th at 10:30-11:30am Pacific/1:30-2:30pm Eastern, Larta Institute (www.Larta.org) is proud to present a Webinar on how and why innovators must break free of regional constraints and ultimately become interconnected to today’s globally distributed markets, sources of investment, partnership prospects, and talent. The global context for today’s high-growth entrepreneur is defined by information asymmetry, fast changing market dynamics, low barriers to market entry and wide dispersion of resources. This new landscape allows both unprecedented opportunity and competition. Innovators, and those that support them, must begin to understand and adopt a non-linear “network-centric” approach to successful market entry; an approach characterized by constantly updated market knowledge, pursuit of global opportunities and partnerships, and “just-in-time” access to a set of domain and functional experts (such as those drawn from industry) on whom they can call whenever they need to do so. In this context, three hand-selected high-growth entrepreneurs, across technology sectors, will share not only their current technologies and business value but also a first-hand account of their entrepreneurial journey and where they are headed next in an increasingly complex, rough and tumble, global marketplace. Register now at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/657193658

GEW 2011

Webinar: The Globally Networked Approach to Commercializing Tech-Based Innovation

Los Angeles, California

17 November 2011-18 November 2011

On Thursday, November 17, 10:00-11:00AM PST/1:00-2:00PM EST, Larta Institute (http://larta.org/) is proud to present a Webinar aimed at entrepreneur support programs and organizations. It will discuss a new approach to building and cultivating networks for the benefit of entrepreneurs in your region. It is based on a successful model developed and managed by Larta that has resulted in strong outcomes – investment, revenue, markets etc. Technology and talent, markets and money, are now globally distributed. Globalization has brought great opportunities for entrepreneurs – new markets, new sources of investment and additional partnership prospects to help them scale and grow. But a rapidly globalizing marketplace also brings opportunities – and challenges - for entrepreneur support organizations. While conventional wisdom prescribes localized strategies for venture accelerators, incubators and regional innovation “clusters” to nurture and cultivate entrepreneurs, the global environment calls for a new strategy and tactics to adapt to a new age of promise: a “network-centric” approach. This innovative approach is both dynamic (always evolving) and adaptive (can be scaled depending on need). This Webinar will present the elements of this network approach to value creation for support systems associated with entrepreneurs. It will feature industry executives, domain experts and entrepreneurs who have first-hand experience with how networks of influence and opportunity create market awareness, relevance and competitiveness. Register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/507631834