Policies for Innovation and Growth Entrepreneurship

Moderator:
Rohit K. Shukla
Founder and CEO, Larta Institute

Presentation:
Marie-Florence Estimé
Deputy Director for OECD Center for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development

Discussant:
Tony Stanco
Director of the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Capitol Hill Club, Private Dining Room 3
300 First Street SE, Washington DC 20036
9:00-10:00 AM Presentation, 8:30 AM Registration

Event Description:

This briefing will touch on mechanisms to enhance the success rate of global innovators who seek to develop better access to global market partners, strategic alliances, and the investment community.  
 
It will provide an introductory glimpse to provide government, foreign government and non-government economic development organizations an opportunity to explore current approaches to mapping the assets of innovation; aligning them with best practices from around the globe; developing competitive innovative companies ready to “go global”; and thus enhance the ability of regions to compete and win in the new global economy.

Biographies:

Marie-Florence Estimé is Deputy Director of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) & Local Development (CFE) and has been responsible for the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSME) since its foundation in March 1993.  Mme Estimé has developed the WPSME’s program of activities concerning SMEs in OECD countries, in particular in the area of employment and job creation, high growth SMEs, ICTs and e-business, competitiveness, globalization, management training, and women’s entrepreneurship.  Mme Estimé has an advanced economics degree (Development and International Relations) from the University of Paris. At the OECD, Mme Estimé has worked at the Development Centre, the Economics Department and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry where she prepared and/or contributed to a number of studies. Before joining the OECD, she worked at the French Ministry of Economics and Finance.

Rohit K. Shukla is the founder and chief executive officer of Larta Institute, a prominent private nonprofit organization based in Southern California, providing commercialization advisory services, technology transfer expertise, technology assessments, and business assistance to clients since 1994.  Larta Institute stands at the intersection of public policy and private enterprise development, and is a central point for assisting companies and policymakers around the globe in meeting the challenges of an evolving economy.  Mr. Shukla has published a range of research reports, including Beyond Consolidation (co-authored), Hollywood Unstrung and Sand Dollar Reports and many reports on such sectors as bioinformatics, semiconductors, wireless technology and medical devices, as well as knowledge-based issues such as technology transfer and commercialization.  Mr. Shukla holds a Masters in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and a Masters in Communications Arts from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Tony Stanco is Director of the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization and an Associate Director of the Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute of The George Washington University. Prior to joining The George Washington University, he was a senior attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he worked on over 200 IPOs.  At The George Washington University, Mr. Stanco works on innovation policy, start-up finance policy, and software policy, Open Source, cyber-security and eGovernment issues with universities and governments around the world. Mr. Stanco also teaches the "Lab to IPO" course dealing with start-up formation and funding.  He has an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in securities regulation and is licensed as a lawyer in New York State.