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SUMMARY:Enterprise Tuesday 2012-2013: Recognising Opportunities - Professo
 r Sir Richard Friend FRS\, Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambri
 dge\, Co-founder and Non-Executive Director Eight19\; Dr Simon Bransfield-
 Garth\, CEO\, Eight19\; and Dr Seena Rejal\, Chairman\, Cambridge Policy A
 ssociates 
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CONTACT:Enterprise Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:*A central question in entrepreneurship is when and how do peo
 ple recognise an opportunity that is worth pursuing?*  Should it be ideas 
 that are evident in the market place based on alertness? Should it be abou
 t deep research that leads to ideas of how to disrupt markets? And when sh
 ould we pursue them? Is it only when they offer watertight business cases 
 or when they get us excited? In other words\, what is the typical anatomy 
 of an opportunity?\n\nOne of the more popular definitions of entrepreneurs
 hip is by Prof Howard Stevenson at Harvard Business School: "It is that an
  opportunity is pursued regardless of access to resources." This may well 
 apply to some opportunities but can it also apply to the translation of de
 ep research into commercially viable products and services?\n\nWe will exa
 mine this question at the first *Enterprise Tuesday* session of the 2012/2
 013 series through a live example - *Eight19*\n\nWe open Enterprise Tuesda
 y this year with the current “hot” company of Cambridge and the third 
 start-up of *Prof Sir Richard Friend*\, Cavendish Professor at the Univers
 ity of Cambridge. Eight19 has plastic solar technology that can revolution
 ize lives of people who are “off-grid”. The game changer is a printabl
 e plastic solar cell that is extremely affordable and scalable. \n\nThe ev
 ening’s speakers are members of a top team both in terms of scientific r
 esearch and commercialisation. Professor Sir Richard Friend is co-presenti
 ng with *Dr. Simon Bransfield Garth\, CEO of Eight19* who has deep experie
 nce of taking disruptive technology to market and a PhD in Engineering fro
 m St Johns College. They will be joined by Dr Seena Rejal\, who has a stro
 ng track record too including time at the Clinton Climate Initiative\, and
  was Chairman of Cambridge University entrepreneurs when he was a PhD at C
 ambridge!\n\n*Interested? Please register at http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk
 /programmes/enterprisetuesday/register.html*\n\nRegistration is from 18:00
 . The lecture starts at 18:30 followed by networking from 20:00. \n\nEnter
 prise Tuesday is a series of FREE evening lectures and networking sessions
  managed and delivered by the Centre for Entreprenurial Learning (CfEL)\, 
 based at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School. \n\nwww.cfel
 .jbs.cam.ac.uk 
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 0
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