News conference titled “Transfer of intellectual property from university to the business community” will be held on September 28 at 10:00, at the council chamber of Faculty of Economics in Osijek. Conference will be about cooperation between Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics in Osijek and international partners on a range of projects, which are related to the transfer of intellectual property from university to the business community. The projects that are going to be discussed are described in detail below.

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics in Osijek in cooperation with international partners work on a number of projects related to the transfer of intellectual property from university to the business community, which include: » Read more…

End of the collective summer vacation marked the official start start of the new semester at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek. Working hours of the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship Office are 09:00 – 15:00 (Mon-Fri), and the lectures for graduate students start on September 13, 2007.

Writing the integrative assignment and the final exam last Saturday (July 14, 2007) have marked the end of I and II semesters for the 10th and 11th class of our graduate students. Start of the new semester is scheduled for mid-September 2007. We a wish pleasant summer holiday to all our professors, students and associates.

The end of the summer semester has also brought the end to Dr. Allen Bures’s stay in Osijek. Dr. Bures was a guest of the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship through a Fulbright Scholar Program. Prior to this, Mr Bures was the Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing at the Radford University , USA. For the last six months he participated in our program with his exceptionally interesting lectures within the “Crosscultural Organization Behavior” course.

SENIIR (South-Eastern Europe Network for Improving Industry Research) project ended in May 2007. Its goal was to provide an overview of conditions in individual economic sectors, in order to increase the transparency and make it easier for various institutions (banks, investors, chambers of commerce, employers’ associations, consultancy firms, etc.), as well as for small and medium-sized enterprises to make decisions on entering individual activities, cooperation, creation of consultancy reports, etc.

Project was founded on the basis of longtime experience from Austria and Slovenia, and methodology used for creation of reports came from Austrian and Slovenian partners. Hosts of this pilot project in Croatia were Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship and (www.poduzetnistvo.org ), and Entrepreneurship Research Institute from Maribor (www.irp.si ) and KMU Forschung from Vienna (www.kmuforschung.ac.at ), Austria. The project was financed by Austrian organization ASO (http://www.aso.zsi.at ).