Some fifty students and several professors of Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship have visited England and Scotland from 22-27 May, 2008. The official “work” part of the trip consisted of visits to two development agencies in Newcastle, University Technology Park and Durham Business School in Durham, and Hunter Center for Entrepreneurship in Glasgow.

Today (May 16, 2008) Sunčica Oberman Peterka has succesfuly defended her Doctoral thesis entitled “Entrepreneurial Universities in Function of Efficient Dissemination of University Intellectual Property”. Doctoral thesis was defended before the committee of professors consisting of Željko Turkalj, Ph.D. (chairman), Slavica Singer, Ph.D. – member (mentor), and Allan Gibb, Ph.D. – member. We warmly congratulate Sunčica and wish a lot of success in private and professional life!

On May 8, 2008, Finnish Ambassador to Croatia, HE Mrs. Ann-Marie Nyroos with husband and first secretary of Finnish Embassy, Mr. Joonas Heiskanen visited Graduate Program in ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Slavica Singer, PhD, program head, Sanja Pfeifer, PhD, and Mirta Matešić, program coordinator familiarized honorable guests with the program.

There was also talk about possibilities for strengthening the collaboration with Finnish universities, especially University of Turku , with which we already cooperate in preparation of a doctoral program in entrepreneurship, but also about including new courses like, for instance, a design course, into our program.