Summer vacation at JIBS
09 Jul 2009 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
JIBS stories takes a holiday. We hope you will all have a good summer, and we’ll see you again in August!
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The 2009 Almedalen Week
06 Jul 2009 | Posted By: JIBS Stories
In the week 28 June to 4 July this year, close to 8000 politicians, people from associations of all kinds, researchers and lobbyists met in Almedalen in central Visby on the island of Gotland.
The Almedalen Week started in 1968, when prime minister Olof Palme made a speech from the back of a lorry in Almedalen during his vacation. From that, the Almedalen Week has grown to this year’s record 1040 events arranged by 560 organisers. The heart of the week is that all political parties represented in the Parliament are there and are given a day each. It is a meeting where you relatively easy get access to many interesting people, at seminars and informally; an unusual combination of political summit and openness.
I attended the Almedalen Week in my capacity as chairperson of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, a network organisation for the generation and transfer of knowledge relevant to policy in the field of entrepreneurship and small enterprise development. We have taken part in the Almedalen week for some years now. This year, we arranged five seminars, with very good attendance (the competition is fierce). Among many others, we had the new Minister for Higher Education and Research, Tobias Krantz, as a speaker in one seminar, and the chairperson of the parliamentary Committee on Education, Sofia Larsen and two secretaries of state in other seminars.
Our topics were R&D during the crisis; entrepreneurship in the global school (the Swedish government decided on a strategy for entrepreneurship in schools and universities in May 2009, and the Forum has made several studies of entrepreneurship education in Swedish schools); cornerstones for growth in SMEs; advice to entrepreneurs-to-be and SMEs (with presentation of a report by the Forum); and the export potential of Swedish health care. I moderated two of our seminars. People from the Forum also took part in other seminars, for example I was on the panel of a seminar on university-region cooperation arranged by the Värmland region.
The supply of interesting seminars was very large. At any time, you could find something of interest. I found time to visit a seminar on education (in a wide sense, Swedish bildning) in the time of bloggs, arranged by Gotland University. One of the panel members was Leif Alsheimer, a former lecturer at JIBS who started the cultural education workshop for law students at JIBS in 1996, and the seminar was moderated by Johannes Hylander, a former director of planning at Jönköping University. I also visited a seminar where Caroline Wigren, formerly at JIBS, now at Lund University, reported on a study of entrepreneurship in the health sector.
My wife and a son were there as well, visiting some 30+ churches during the days. In the evenings and nights, there was a lot of partying going on in central Visby. We, however, dined in small companies, also meeting some old private friends.
Clas Wahlbin, professor of Industrial Marketing, Associate Dean for Quality and Support
6 July 2009
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Some results from the student poll
02 Jul 2009 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
Compared to the other three schools at Jönköping University…
- JIBS students rated the school’s profile, its collaboration with the commercial and industrial life and its internationalisation higher than the others when asked why they chose to study here.
- JIBS students also rated recommendations from others higher as a reason to study at the school.
- The school’s proximity to their home was less important for JIBS students than for students of the other schools when choosing where to study.
- JIBS students rate themselves as healthier than the students of the other schools.
- JIBS students are more content with IT support than the students of the other schools.
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