80: Roundtable w/GEIRC founders + Upslope / Liquid Mechanics / Rowdy Mermaid

This time out, Jeff and Brad properly set the tone for the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference, which took place in Boulder in June 2024, with a roundtable of original “GEIRC” founders including:
- Janet Bercovitz, Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship here at Leeds
- Matthew Grimes, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Futures, at Cambridge University’s Judge School of Business
- Po-Hsuan Hsu, Professor of Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
- Mike Lenox, Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business at University of Virginia
Through this fascinating and funny, freewheeling conversation, our panelists reveal the conference’s origin story and describe how it grew from a small affair at Virginia’s Darden Business School to the transcontinental movement its become today, drawing members from around the world and holding events in North America, Europe and Asia.
The group ascribes the high level of interest in the conference to its cross-disciplinary nature. The gathering draws from multiple academic sectors, which tends to allow attendees to more quickly cut through the discipline-specific minutiae to find common ground, share multiple perspectives and get to actual real-world impact.
Brad, Jeff and Janet talk about how Leeds is a natural slam-dunk host for the conference, given our people’s interest in entrepreneurship, or innovation, or both — not to mention the internationality of Leeds’ faculty and students.
Considering it’s the first time the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference has taken place since the pandemic, it’s a testament to the organization’s fortitude, creativity and resilience — exactly the sort of qualities one looks for in an innovative entrepreneur.
Enjoy and cheers!
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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded during the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024.
Huge thanks to our Boulder-area beverage providers:
Upslope Brewing: https://uslopebrewing.com
Liquid Mechanics Brewing: https://liquidmechanicsbrewing.com
Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha: https://rowdymermaid.com
And thank you again to our panelists:
- Janet Bercovitz from Colorado: https://www.colorado.edu/business/leeds-directory/faculty/janet-bercovitz
- Matthew Grimes from Cambridge: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/matthew-grimes/
- Po Hsuan Hsu at Tsing Hua University: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vIgXoLEAAAAJ&hl=en
- Mike Darden from Virginia: https://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-lenox
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An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis
"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs
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