How to Become Successful and Socially Responsible Entrepreneur?

programme

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Budapest Round Table

How to become successful and socially responsible entrepreneur?

"Learn from experience."

The Budapest Round Table will be held at the main building of the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia – Hungarian Academy of Sciences at 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér 9., at the left side of the Danube next to the Chain Bridge.

The building of the Academy, inaugurated in 1865, was built at a turning point in the urban and architectural history of Budapest as one of the first yet most mature and valuable historicising examples of the neo-Renaissance style.

The Budapest Round Table will be organized by the Hungarian Section of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Entrepreneurship Research and Education Network among Central-European Universities – ERENET, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

09:00 – 10:00 Registration of the Participants

10:00 – 10:30 OPENING CEREMONIE

Welcome Speeches by

Dr. Gilbert Fayl, General Secretary of International Affairs of the European Academy of Science and Art – EASA;

Representative of the Committee of Social Affairs of the European Commission;

Representative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: and

Representative of the YES for Europe

Introduction of the Participants by Dr. Antal Szabó, Scientific Director of ERENET Network

10:30 – 11:10 Introduction remarks of the Moderators

David Smallbone BSc (Econ), MSc, Hon PhD, is Professor Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Small Business Research Centre – SBRC – at the Kingston University and

János Vecsenyi, Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at Budapest Corvinus University, Small Business Development Center and Head of Training and development at GE Consumer Finance-Budapest Bank Hungary:

Subject: To be a successful entrepreneur

11:10 – 11:40 Café Break – Informal Discussions

11:40 – 12: 40 Subject: To be a socially responsible entrepreneur

12:40 – 13:10 Café Break – Informal Discussions

13:10 – 14:00 To be young, creative, innovative entrepreneur

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Lessons to learn from successful young and socially responsible entrepreneurs

14:00 – 14:30 CLOSING REMARKS

Closing remarks of the Moderators:

David Smallbone and János Vecsenyi

Prospect for the Future

Antal Szabó

MEMORANDUM OF THE DISCUSSION

Gilbert Fayl

14:30 – 16:00 CLUBHOUSE of the Members of the YES for Europe and the YES for Hungary

Open discussions, exchange of views, discussions on developing cooperation and projects, friendship and business relations. Everybody of the participants welcome to take part.

16:00 – 18:00 Free time for sightseeing, shopping, relaxing

18:00 – 18:30 Cocktail reception at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

18:30 – 20:00 Gala Diner at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Honourable Speaker: Sandor Demjan, Founder and President of the TriGranit Shareholding co., awarded by Holder of the "World Entrepreneur Of The Year" in 2006 established by the Ernst and Young

Main points of discussion:

1. To be a successful entrepreneur:

What kind of personal qualities do you consider as important being a successful entrepreneur? How do you make best use of emerging opportunities? What are the critical success factors (e.g. readiness to take risks, “think global/act local”, “doing the right thing at the right moment”, business planning, utilization of quality and environment management standards, networking, simultaneous co-operation and competition, etc)?

As a busy entrepreneur, how do you ensure the long-term competitiveness and continuity of your business?

2. To be a socially responsible entrepreneur:

How do you ensure the economic success of your business by the inclusion of social and environmental considerations - like energy efficiency and pollution prevention, waste minimanisation and recycling - into your enterprise’s operation? In other worlds, how do you satisfy customers’ demands, while also managing the justified and rightful expectations of other individuals and relevant bodies, such as employees, suppliers, the public authorities, the community around you, etc. How can this process bring direct benefit to your business and secure your long-term sustainability?

3. To be young, creative, innovative entrepreneur:

How do you maintain focus on:

·  Critical issues: innovation as a substantive appearance of entrepreneurship; creativity and innovation in the enterprises; different types of innovation (product innovation, organizational innovation, social innovation, etc.)?

·  Potential innovative areas: informatics, communication engineering, biotechnology, etc.?

·  Relevant measures to optimize the performance and profit of your enterprise: spin off enterprises as special links between innovative entrepreneurs and educational institutes; creativity developer and creativity restricting educational methods; enterprise development as innovative education developer method in higher education; etc.?

4. Lessons to learn from successful young and socially responsible entrepreneurs:

·  Success stories?

·  Successful entrepreneurs as “role model”?

·  How could an entrepreneur and an enterprise become creative and successful?

·  What is the message for future entrepreneurs?

·  What is the message for national and EU authorities?

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