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17. OCTOBER 2007 - WEDNESDAY

18:00 – 18:30 Registration

18:30 – 18:50 Welcome - Prof. Monika Hardygóra, Vice-Rector for Development, Wroclaw University of Technology, PL

18:50 – 19:35 Britta Thomsen, Member of the European Parliament “The role of the European Union in the Promotion of Women Scientists and Entrepreneurs”

19:35 - 21:00 Reception

18. OCTOBER 2007 - THURSDAY

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 9:40 Welcome – Prof. Tadeusz Więckowski Vice-Rector for Research of Wroclaw University of Technology

9:40 – 11:00 Female scientist entrepreneurship and female start-ups from universities
- Prof. Susan Marlow – De Montfort University, UK
- Dr. Ewa Lisowska, Warsaw School of Economics, PL
- Helene Schiffbänker - Joanneum Research, AT

Chairperson: Dr. Petra Püchner - Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum, Stuttgart, DE

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Programmes and policies supporting female entrepreneurship
- Dr. – University of Maryland, USA
- Ilka Bickmann – Nano4women, DE
- Dr. Piotr Świątek , COST, BE
- Hanna Gałusa, Gdansk Entrepreneurship Foundation, PL
- Tomasz Wisniewski, Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer,
Wroclaw University of Technology, PL

Chairperson: Dr. Ineke Jenniskens – Nikos – University of Twente, NL

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 15:45 Female entrepreneurship – personal experience, future action to support female scientist's start-ups from university
- Prof. Małgorzata Kujawińska, Warsaw University of Technology, PL
- Dr. Susanne Rahner, YGGDRASIL, DE
- Dr. Zofia Grzech, Salony optyczne z gabinetami okulistyczno-optometrycznymi, PL
- Małgorzata Korczak, Anna Ziętek ax RFID, PL

Chairperson: Beata Lubicka, Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer, PL

15:45 Summarising remarks
- Christina Diegelmann, Ministry of Economic Affairs of Baden Württemberg, DE

16:00 End of the conference

Conference languages are English and Polish. The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme.