SUMMIT 2010: Day 1, March 15

10.00 - 11.00 am Registration
11.00 - 11.30 am Opening Session
11.00 am Welcoming Remarks by Co-Chairs
Annette Grueters-Kieslich, Lesa Mitchell, Stephan Gutzeit
11.30 - 12.30 pm Keynote Presentations
11.30 am "Entrepreneurship at the Charité"
Karl Max Einhaeupl
12.00 pm "The Future of Medicine and How Academia and Business Can Work together to Shape it."
Ludwig Georg Braun
12.30 - 1.00 pm Presentation
12.30 pm "Building an Academic Innovation System: Lessons Learnt at the Weizmann Institute of Science."
Gil Granot-Mayer
1.00 - 2.00 pm Networking Luncheon
2.00 - 2.30 pm Presentation
2.00 pm "The MRC Development Gap Fund and the Promise and Pitfalls of Pre-Seed Funding."
Lorraine Anderson
2.30 - 4.00 pm Working Groups Part 1
Group A How to Build a Strong Brand: Entrepreneurial Marketing
Tine Thygesen (Chair), Christine F. Kreiner, Jan Kratzer
Group B How to Set up Your Firm: Business Basics and German Company Law (in German)
Joachim Rautter (Chair), Christoph Regierer, Martin Mahn
Group C How to Build an Innovation System: The Do's and Don'ts of Incubation
Andy Goldstein (Chair), Magnus Klofsten, Janke Dittmer
Group D How to Combine Academia With Entrepreneurship: No Conflict, No Interest?
Bertil Guve (Chair), Klaus Stoeckemann, Helmut Schoenenberger
Group E How to Enable Private Investment: The Role of the State
Peter Hassenbach (Chair), Stian Westlake, Lars Linaa Joergensen
4.00 - 4.45 pm Coffee Break
4.45 - 6.15 pm Presentations
4.45 pm "Advances in Biomaterials and How to Realize their Commercial Potential."
Frank Douglas
5.15 pm "The New Business Road Test - What To Do Before You Write a Business Plan."
John W. Mullins
5.45 pm "Confessions of a Venture Capitalist: The Ten Biggest Mistakes in Financing your Start-up and How to Avoid Them."
Michiel de Haan
6.15 pm Leave for Dinner
7.00 pm Reception
7.30 pm Dinner
Dinner - Speaker
Goetz Werner