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Judge Business School and Indian School of Business agree to foster technology entrepreneurship
October 2006
Judge Business School and the Indian School of Business today announced that they have signed a three year international student exchange programme agreement.
The programme will enable selected students from the Indian School of Business to visit Cambridge and enroll as full-time MBA students for one academic semester, whilst the selected students from Judge Business School will enroll at Hyderabad for a similar appropriate period. Whilst visiting their host schools, the students will attend lectures and undertake consulting projects with host Microsoft Research on "emerging" technologies in order to familiarise themselves with technology entrepreneurship.
Dr Shai Vyakarnam, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, said: "I am delighted this project has been agreed because our centre here and the Wadwani Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Indian School of Business share much in common in terms of our goals for our students. As a rapidly developing economy, India is also becoming one of these new sources of innovation, so it is a fantastic opportunity for us to provide educational services to inspire and build up skills in the practice of entrepreneurship to India's future business leaders."
"Microsoft Research is pleased to support the international student exchange between Judge Business School and the Indian School of Business. To help foster technology entrepreneurship we will be inviting the exchange students to undertake business feasibility studies on technologies arising from the research activities at our Cambridge, England and Bangalore, India laboratories," said Andrew Herbert, Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge.
These projects will allow the students to learn about global issues in a fast growing technology environment, equipping them with the insight and practical skills necessary to develop them into managers for the future, capable of commercialising disruptive technologies in global contexts.
Commenting on the programme, Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School, said: "Cambridge possesses an indisputable technological and entrepreneurial spirit. One tenth of European venture capital is currently invested within a 25 mile radius of Cambridge and Cambridge's Silicon Fen provides a group of more than 1,500 high tech startups that does not find its equal in Europe. Consequently, the environment these exchange students will find themselves immersed in is truly a technology entrepreneurship hotbed."
The Indian School of Business is committed to fostering an entrepreneurial mind set among its students and its Wadhwani Centre has been actively involved in developing a variety of programmes for students to participate actively in the emerging entrepreneurial activities in India, particularly in the IT industry. Professor Rammohan Rao, Dean, Indian School of Business, remarked: "I am delighted with our partnership with Judge Business School as it will enrich both the Schools' students by exposing them to different economies as well as the cultural influences that impact business decisions in different environments."
The exchange agreement was signed by Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director, Judge Business School, and Professor M Rammohan Rao, Dean, Indian School of Business, in time to announce it to Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, who was visiting Cambridge University, his alma mater, to receive his honorary doctorate in law.
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