The ICES project – International Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies – is aimed to provide new capacity of higher education institutions to react to the needs of the economic development, with new knowledge and skills offered through the creation of the doctoral program in entrepreneurship and innovation; developing a virtual learning platform for entrepreneurial studies, and interdisciplinary and outreaching model of entrepreneurship education (entrepreneurship across campus) at the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek.
Institutions gathered around the realization of the ICES project are: J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Turku School of Economics, University of Durham, University of Klagenfurt, University of Maribor, Center for Entrepreneurship Osijek, Croatia, National Competitiveness Council Croatia, Microsoft Croatia Ltd. And Professor Emeritus Allan Gibb, University of Durham Business School, United Kingdom and Professor Jouko Havunen, University of Vasaa, Finland, as individual experts.
The ICES project implementation approved by Tempus is foreseen for the 2007-2009 period.
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SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AT DOCTORAL PROGRAM ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATIVENESS FOR DECEMBER 2011
The following lectures are scheduled for December 2011:
METHODOLOGY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL RESEARCH
(Sanja Pfeifer, Nataša Šarlija, Marijana Zekić-Sušac, Jerome Katz)
Obligatory course, 2nd semester:
December 08-10, 2011
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY: TURNING IDEAS INTO BUSINESS
(Pasi Malinen)
Elective course, 1st semester:
December 15-16, 2011
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NEW: Doctoral Seminar on Entrepreneurship as Making
Start date: 21/05/2012
End date: 25/05/2012
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Registration deadline: 02/05/2012
Saras Sarasvathy, Research Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, through her scientific-research work has introduced a new way of researching entrepreneurship not only as finding but also as "making" new opportunities, firms, markets and institutions. Pre-registrations have started!
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NEW - Doctoral Program Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness
Doctoral Program Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness is the result of two-year work within the Tempus project financed by the EU in which, beside the Osijek University, four European universities participated: universities from Finland (Turku), United Kingdom (Durham), Austria (Klagenfurt) and Slovenia (Maribor). Studying and recognition of individual courses within this doctoral program and other doctoral programs within these institutions was enabled through a special agreement signed between the five participating universities. Curriculum of the Doctoral Program Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness is implemented by lecturers from all the partner universities. The start of the program is planned in autumn of 2010. An important component of the program is the Virtual Learning Platform based on Microsoft technologies, which will allow students of this program to access and exchange knowledge from the field of entrepreneurship. The program of the study can be accessed 
here, and more information can be obtained at psp@psp.efos.hr.