Cambridge Entrepreneurship and Leadership Seminar 2009 #2 (CELS09-2)

The Cambridge Entrepreneurship and Leadership Seminar (CELS), organised by Cambridge University Education Without Borders (CUEWB), is a series of training camps that aim to create a study and social platform for future business and finance leaders. Backed by rich entrepreneurial education resources at the University of Cambridge and the innovation cluster in the Cambridge area, CELS is designed for outstanding students from top universities in both the UK and abroad. Following the highly successful inaugural CELS seminar earlier this year, CELS 2009 #2 (CELS09-2), the second in the CELS series, is again targeted at top Chinese university students.

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The University of Cambridge excels in high quality entrepreneurship and business education. It ranked the third in all entrepreneurial schools worldwide, after Stanford and MIT, as investigated by YouNoodle.com. Its MBA programme at the Judge Business School ranked 1st in UK by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 10th worldwide by the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2008. Silicon Fen, the local cluster of high-tech businesses, especially those related to software, electronics, and biotechnology, is now one of the most important technology centres in Europe.

We have again invited Prof. Alan Barrell to be the Director of CELS09-2. Prof. Barrell has spent 30 years in senior executive positions in technology-based companies, including chief executive roles at Baxter Healthcare, Domino Printing Sciences and Willett International. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) and one of the first recipients of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. The teaching staff members also include Mr. Robert Jones, Mr. Jamie Urquhart, Dr. Chris Lamaison, Dr. Alan Cousens, Mr. Jack Lang, and Prof. Charles Hampden-Turner.

Apart from the lectures, we have also planned rich social programmes and trips, from which the students will gain a good understanding of British culture and history. Mr. Stewart Ferguson from China-Britain Business Council will give a talk on China-UK Business Collaboration. Dr. David Gill, Managing Director of the St John's Innovation Centre, will give an overview of the business plans and business models at the Centre, which was the first innovation centre in Europe to focus on supporting knowledge-based businesses. There will be visits to companies in the Cambridge Science Park and group trips to London, Oxford, and Windsor during the weekends.

Our colleagues in organising both CELS09-1 and CELS09-2 are graduate students from Peking University, China. They have rich experience in organising similar training programmes in New York, California, Hong Kong, and Australia. They have selected the students for CELS09-2 from top universities in China with strict selection criteria.

The CUEWB team would like to extend a big thank-you to all the friends that have helped organise CELS09-2. We believe that CELS09-2 will be a successful programme that benefits all the participants.

Timetabled Lectures/Talks/Activities

 
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