“Well done!”  - Attendees’ views

According to given feedback generally participants found the FINPIN 2008 Conference interesting and worthwhile to participate. Participants returned 35 feedback forms. Thanks for all of you and also thanks for the many feedback emails and verbal feedback during the Conference.

Summary of the feedback forms tells us that the first channels on information about the Conference in most cases were e-mails and colleagues. Most of the respondents thought that the best way to contact in the future is by e-mail. Interesting themes was the main reason to participate the FINPIN 2008 Conference.

TOP FIVE - The most interesting presentations and presenters

1. Growth Entrepreneurship, Dr Antti Paasio (mentioned eighteen times)

2. From Push to Pull. The Marketing Approach in Generating Business for Universities, Dr Thomas Baaken (mentioned eight times)

2. Business Know-how in Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship, Dr A.J. Groen (mentioned eight times)

3. Teaching Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Especially Within Non-business Studies - Recommendations of the European Expert Group set by the European Commission, Mr Simone Baldassarri (mentioned five times)

4. Integrating Emotional Endurance® Training into Entrepreneurship, Ms Suzanne Mulvehill (mentioned three times)

4. Practice Firm Concept in China and the future Challenges in Chinese Economy, PhD. Ma Liang (mentioned three times)

There were 22 improving proposals and other comments, here is a couple of suggestions

• Good to allow 30 minutes for presentations during parallel sessions.
• More attendees, please!
• Few times felt that could have more breaks, last parallel session was 2,5 hours.
• Keynote speakers should not dwell into specific case studies but talk more generally
• Use of microphone is important.
• Getting earlier more information about parallel sessions so that it could be easier of choose among sessions, put the information on websites.
• We all attendees were "professionals" in Entrepreneurship educations but how could we reach also those teachers and other personnel who should learn entrepreneurship and to whom these conference topics are new?
• Please explain what we can expect of "Get together Evening" so we know whether to eat earlier before or afterwards.

More detailed feedback summary (.pdf)