Quarterly newsletter CEEMAN News published an article about the development and operation of the Entrepreneurial Portal (www.poduzetnistvo.org), joint project of the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship and the Center for Entrepreneurship Osijek in its summer edition. The purpose of the Entrepreneurial Portal is to provide to its users daily fresh and relevant information from all Croatian daily newspapers and other media related to entrepreneurship and economy; news and information from the field of entrepreneurship, and expert articles written by Portal’s associates.

CEEMAN (Central and East European Management Development Association) is an international management development association established in 1993 with the aim of accelerating the growth in quality of management development in central and eastern Europe. Gradually CEEMAN has become a global network of management development institutions interested in quality of education and innovations in this field, as well as in the broad area of subjects related to change. CEEMAN has expanded to include 170 institutional and individual members from 42 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, one of which is Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship in Osijek.

Due to collective vacation at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Office of the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship will be closed from July 25 to August 24, 2009. GPE wishes pleasant summer holidays to all professors, students, business associates and friends.

Ljubica Matek is the eightieth student who has successfully defended her masters’ thesis at the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship. Master’s thesis entitled “Recognizing Business Opportunity as the Precondition for Starting a Business Venture” was defended on July 14, 2009 at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, before the committee of professors consisting of chairman Slavica Singer, Ph.D., Sanja Pfeifer, Ph.D., and Željko Turkalj, Ph.D., (committee members). We congratulate Ljubica and wish her a lot of success!

Slavica Singer, PhD presented the paper “From ignoring to leading changes – which role universities play in developing countries?”, which she co-authored with Sunčica Oberman Peterka, PhD at the prestigious research conference Triple Helix VII “The growth of Triple Helix in global agenda of innovation, competitiveness and sustainability” held at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on June 17 – 19, 2009. The conference, which was attended by more than 300 participants from 40 countries, was lead by Henry Etzkowitz, PhD from Newcastle University, author of the Triple Helix concept. It is our great pleasure that Mr. Henry Etzkowitz accepted the invitation to participate in our doctoral program Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness.

At the meeting of partner universities held on 11-12 June, 2009 at Durham University, UK, longtime mentor, professor and friend of Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship, Allan Gibb, and Dinah Bennett, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Learning, have presented a module (on entrepreneurial learning), that will be part of the doctoral program, as Durham’s contribution within this joint doctoral program. Because of a completely new approach in organizing the doctoral study (modular, interdisciplinary, international) but also because of its intriguing content (entrepreneurship and innovation) new professors and world-renowned institutions are showing interest for cooperation in development and implementation of the doctoral program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. We will publish more about this in September of 2009, for when the start of enrollment is foreseen.