PODIM - conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship March 26, 2008

People are the most precious and scarce resource for the development of a company and a region and we have to look for the synergy by connecting people from different parts of the world, with different backgrounds and having different experiences that can be shared. Therefore we decided that the leading topic of the 28th Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be “The Power of Networking” and it will take place in the Hotel Habakuk in Maribor, Slovenia, March 27 – 28, 2008.

Some of the issues that 28th PODIM will address:

- Networking experience
- Participation in social networks and business advantage
- The importance of networking for acquiring funds and knowledge in European Research Area
- Web-based social networks: fashion trend or serious business need
- Importance of networking and social capital in knowledge society
- Networking and intellectual property rights
- Basic features of effective networking and most common mistakes
- Trust and networking
- Importance of networking for career development, searching for opportunities and deal-making
- Networking and open source innovation
- Networking tools
- Open and closed networks
- Networking in strategic alliances
- Science parks networks as a tool for globalization of technology based companies
- Business value of social networks
- Future of networks
- Investing in personal and business networks

Official Website: http://en.podim.org/