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Over twenty students from Yale University were hosted at Technion last week as part of the Global Network Week (GNW) program. GNW is an international program held for the first time at Technion. The event organizers, Professor Miriam Erez and Dr. Harry Yuklea from the Technion MBA program, said that as a result of the project\u2019s overwhelming success, another event will be held in March.<\/p>\n
GNW is a unique student exchange program that enables MBA students study at different MBA schools. This framework allows students from different schools to network at a week-long event that focuses on specific business topics and exposes them to other academic curricula. Technion is the first and only Israeli institute that is a member of this global network.<\/p>\n
The GNW week at Technion was dedicated to the topic of \u201cStartup Nation\u201d. Apart from the Yale students, additional ten students from the Technion (studying at the Haifa Campus and Tel Aviv Branch), and six students from Spain, Mexico and China participated in the event. During this week, students were exposed to Israeli entrepreneurship and to the relationship between academic, industry and innovation. They heard seminars termed \u201cIsrael\u2019s Innovative Culture,\u201d \u201cCapital and Innovation \u2013 the Israeli Model,\u201d and \u201cSerial High-Tech Entrepreneurs in Israel.\u201d Vivian, a Chinese student from Yale, said that \u201cUp until now, I only linked Israel with tension and conflicts, but this week I discovered a magical land, a country that is modern and multicultural, filled with warm, intelligent and inquisitive people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oren Dvoskin, a student of Technion\u2019s MBA program, said that, \u201cThis was an exciting and intensive week, in which we were given a wide prospective with respect to academics, entrepreneurship, strategy and financial aspects, and about inventors who went on to become entrepreneurs. I gained a better understanding of the importance for entrepreneurs to be capable of seeing the big picture, as well as continually validating their target audience who would be interested in the technology they are developing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe principal logic of the program,\u201d explains Dr. Yuklea, \u201cis to impart to students that there is no such thing as a \u201csecret recipe\u201d for entrepreneurship, but that we can give them the \u2018spices\u2019 with which they can prepare their unique dish. All of this week\u2019s participants were brilliant students, and I believe that the process they underwent showed them the complexity of entrepreneurial work as well as the important attributes that an entrepreneur requires beyond the knowledge that can be learned at a university.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of Technion\u2019s membership in the GNW network, six MBA students from the Technion travelled abroad: four students went to Yale University in the US, and two students travelled to Fudan University in China.<\/p>\n