“Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education Network Webnair: Entrepreneurship & Leadership in Crisis Management” Held Jointly by CityU, the Silk Road Entrepreneurship Education Network and Renowned Universities
To promote the exchange between the City University of Macau and other universities globally, the Global Entrepreneurship Research Center (GERC) at Zhenjiang University, Henley Business School at the University of Reading, NUCB Business School at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business and the Faculty of Finance at the City University of Macau recently held “The 4th Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education Network Webnair: Entrepreneurship & Leadership in Crisis Management” sponsored by the Macao Foundation online. Prof Wang Chongming, Chairman of the Silk Road Entrepreneurship Education Network (SREEN) and Dean of GERC at Zhenjiang University, and CityU Vice Rector Kong Fanqing respectively delivered a speech at the conference.
Prof Wang extended congratulations on the commencement of the conference on behalf of Prof Andrew Lock, Chairman of SREEN, Mr Andrew Main Wilson, CEO of AMBA/BGA and SCREEN’s cooperation bases and member universities in Mainland China, Asia, Australia, Europe, Silicon Valley and Latin America. He told participants that in recent years, CityU and SREEN had formed the “SREEN Entrepreneurship Education Macao Hub” and “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Financial Managers Development Hub” and significant progress had been made. He then pointed out that crisis management, development of entrepreneurship capabilities and leadership in crisis had become important issues commonly faced by global business scholars.
Vice Rector Kong welcomed and thanked members participating in the conference. She pointed out that with the progress of economic globalization, our country was undergoing an era of reform and crisis management, innovative entrepreneurship and leadership had an important impact on the study and development of contemporary university students. She hoped that participating members of the conference would speak freely and share their views and valuable experience to enhance exchange between experts and CityU teachers and students.
There were different sessions of the conference, with “Keynote Speeches” covering the development strategies of long-established enterprises, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship ecosystems of resources-networking, new ESR model for sustainable management and the characteristics of crisis leadership. The “Webnair Roundtable” session covered issues such as innovative strategy for IPR, evolution of supply chain models under crisis, cultural firms and innovative digital business, strategies for digital consumer vouchers, enterprises in Portuguese-speaking countries/regions, vigilance in crisis, Entrepreneurial Social Responsibility, E&I education at MIT, digital entrepreneurial learning, female entrepreneurship and family businesses.
In addition, supported by universities including the School of Management and Economics of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Management at Lanzhou University, MBA Education Management Center and Research Center for Technology and Finance at Shanghai University, School of Business at Jiangnan University, School of Economics and Management at Zhejiang SCI-TECH University, Xuanhuai Entrepreneurship School at Tianjin University and School of Entrepreneurship at South China Normal University, dozens of experts and scholars from universities in Mainland China, UK and Japan were invited to deliver keynote speeches at the conference. The conference had also attracted more than 110 representatives of institutions including AMBA and BGA and universities, creating an exchange platform for the education sector and for sharing of academic research achievements with different sectors of society.
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