In early June, the United States Embassy in Vienna will host , assistant professor of design and innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management at ϳԹ, for a number of events aimed at a common priority of the business community in the two countries: how to hit the mark in encouraging local entrepreneurship, by drawing on examples outside of Silicon Valley.
Leading discussions at business incubators in Linz and the in Vienna, Goldberg—with an by the U.S. Embassy in Vienna—will join with entrepreneurial leaders from European ecosystems to share ideas on how to create and improve partnerships involving the three main veins of startup capital (government, philanthropy and the private sector) to support the founding and growth of small companies.
“Visits from international scholars like Professor Goldberg are a great opportunity to learn from each other and gain new perspectives,” said , head of the WU Entrepreneurship Center (WUEC), at the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business, where Goldberg will also conduct a seminar for the institution's faculty.
This is the second grant of its kind for Goldberg and follows on the heels of a 2016 Vienna stay that sparked collaborations with the and the WUEC on how to boost advocacy and outcomes associated with their common cause.
In Linz and Vienna, Goldberg plans to localize a Cleveland-based entrepreneurial narrative that has become known worldwide: Cleveland--long regarded as a moribund city--has regained its stride thanks, in part, to entrepreneurs and businesses benefiting from a "massive intervention of government and donor resources in Northeast Ohio," as described by his internationally popular massive open online course (MOOC), 2015's .
On Coursera, for ϳԹ, the MOOC has attracted over 175,000 students from 190 countries; what followed was a book of the successes its participants credit to the course: 2018's .
Goldberg's U.S. Embassy grant program—“Beyond Silicon Valley: Exchanging Ideas for Growing Entrepreneurship outside of Silicon Valley Between Austria and Cleveland, Ohio”—will be staged in conjunction with the and the Institute for Innovation Management at the .
For more information, contact Daniel Robison at daniel.robison@case.edu.
This article was originally published May 28, 2019.
