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This document about international executiveworkshop leadership, investment promotion and entrepreneurship.
International
ExecutiveWorkshop
Leadership, Investment Promotion and
Entrepreneurship Development
concepts, strategy and practice
Sunday 27
th
- Tuesday 29
th
October 2013
Abu Dhabi - U.A.E
www.mekei.org
Facilitators
Professor Allam Ahmed
PhD MBA MSc FCIM Chartered Marketer
Director - Middle Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute
(MEKEI)
Brighton Business School, University of Brighton, United
Kingdom
Allam completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Edinburgh
Napier University, UK. He obtained his MSc/MBA from
the Royal Agricultural University, UK and awarded the
RAC Scholarship and Prestigious Book Prize for Best
MSc/MBA Dissertation. He is a Fellow and Chartered
Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.
Allam is the Founding Director of MEKEI and is based at
the Science and Technology Policy Research - SPRU
(world leader in research, consultancy and teaching in the
?eld of Science and Technology Policy) University of
Sussex, where he established and lead the postgraduate
programme MSc International Management. In 2009 he
was appointed to lead the Government of Abu Dhabi major
and ?rst of its kind in the Middle East Knowledge Manage-
ment Framework (Musharaka). Allam produced more than
120 publications, including eighteen books, numerous
articles on knowledge and technology transfer and manage-
ment. He is the recipient of several international Awards
and Medals and listed in the WHO'S WHO IN THE
WORLD 2009-2014, WHO'S WHO IN FINANCE and
BUSINESS 2009/2010 and WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA
2012 published by Marquis Who's Who, USA.
Professor John Adams
BA (Hons) PG DipEd PhD
Head - Department of Economics
The British University in Egypt (BUE), Cairo, Egypt
Professor Adams is the Head of the Department of Econom-
ics at the British University in Egypt. He was, until 2010,
Director of the China-EU Research Centre based at
Edinburgh Napier University and Economic Policy Adviser
to Age Scotland. He has published widely in the ?eld of
economics in both national and international academic
journals, is the co-author of several textbooks and
completed external examiner-ships at the Universities of
Dundee, Sussex and Hong Kong in 2010. Professor Adams
has also undertaken consultancy assignments for a wide
range of public and private sector organisations in the UK
and overseas. He is currently a visiting Professor at three
universities in China. His research is mainly focused on
economic development and on the process of development.
He is currently editor, executive editor, co-editor and
associate editor of four academic journals, two of these
focused on economic issues in China and two on develop-
ment processes (The World Review of Entrepreneurship,
Management and Sustainable Development and The World
Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Develop-
ment). He is also an executive board member of the
International Institute for Investment Promotion based in
Zurich, Switzerland. Professor Adams co-developed a
Masters degree in Investment Promotion & Economic
Development with DIAS of Zurich which is delivered to
students in over 30 countries. He has also provided training
workshops in Investment Promotion for staff of Govern-
ment agencies in Kuwait, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, St.
Lucia and several other countries. In 2011 he co-organised
an international conference on Monopoly and Competition
with the Arab Organisation for Administrative Develop-
ment (ARADO).
Professor Sonny Nwankwo
PhD FCIM FRSA FHEA Chartered Marketer
Director - Noon Centre for Equality & Diversity in
Business
University of East London, United Kingdom
Sonny Nwankwo is Professor of Marketing and Director of
the Noon Centre for Equality & Diversity in Business at the
University of East London, UK. He was the founding
Director of the Petchey Centre of Entrepreneurship at the
University of East London, previously the Director of
Research and Enterprise within East London Business
School and the inaugural President of the International
Academy of African Business and Development. He is
widely published and a recipient of the ANBAR Citation of
Excellence for Highest Quality Rating. Professor
Nwankwo is on the Editorial Advisory/Review Board of
several academic journals. He is External Assessor and
Visiting Professor at universities in the United Kingdom,
Australia, Thailand and across Africa. Prior to entering
academia, he was a manager in the telecommunications
industry. Prof Nwankwo developed his research in Market-
ing, with specialism in consumerism under conditions of
market failure. Through his current research, he seeks to
extend the normative boundaries of marketing by focusing
diverse and often culture-speci?c challenges of economic
behaviour, and the power of individuals to create value and
make choices in the marketplace both as consumers and
entrepreneurs. Thus, from the broader ?eld of consumer
behaviour and its role in shaping identities and interactions,
he extends his attention to the dynamics of entrepreneur-
ship among the British ethnic minority population, particu-
larly the entrepreneurial processes of Africans in the UK.
His research in this area examines the relations between
entrepreneurial identity and individual life histories in the
context of everyday interactions.
Day Two
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival Refreshments and Networking
09:00 - 10:30 Session (4)
Speaking in public places
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Evaluating the host economy environment for FDI
Prof. John Adams
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - turnaround strategies -
rescuing ailing ?rms
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 - 12:30
Session (5A)
Effective leadership
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (5B)
Critical analysis of FDI incentive frameworks
Prof. John Adams
Session (5C)
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - dyslectics of sustainability
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch/Pray and Networking
13:30 - 15:00
Session (6A)
Case Study (group work) and discussion
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (6B)
Case Study (group work) and discussion
Prof. John Adams
Session (6C)
Case study (group work) and discussion
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
15:00 End of Day Two
E-mail: [email protected] or
[email protected]
Day Three
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival Refreshments and Networking
09:00 - 10:30 Session (7)
How to become an aspiring leader
Prof. Allam Ahmed
IPA's and Good Investment Promotion Practice
Prof. John Adams
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - the grey areas & opportunity
structures
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 - 12:30
Session (8A)
Lessons learned from great leaders
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (8B)
Developing a modern IPA for Sudan
Prof. John Adams
Session (8C)
Attributions of entrepreneurship - lessons from successful
world-class entrepreneurs
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch/Pray and Networking
13:30 - 14:30 Roundtable Discussion/Re?ection
End of Workshop
Fax: + 44 (0) 1273 697616
Programme overview
Day One
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival Refreshments and Networking
09:00 - 11:00 Session (1)
Introduction to leadership
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Introduction to global developments in FDI
Prof. John Adams
Introduction to entrepreneurship and SMEs development
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break and Networking
11:30 - 13:00
Session (2A)
Difference between leadership and management
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (2B)
Key drivers of FDI
Prof. John Adams
Session (2C)
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - dynamic growth processes
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch/Pray and Networking
14:00 - 15:30
Session (3A)
Leadership skills and tactics
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (3B)
Barriers to FDI and domestic investment
Prof. John Adams
Session (3C)
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - failure crises
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
15:00 End of Day One
Mob.: + 44 (0) 7788 279 898 or 44 (0) 7772 851 284
Aims And Objectives
This three-day executive workshop provides participants
with the knowledge and skills necessary to assess the
investment environment in which your organizations are
operating, whether public or private. It will also assist you
to identify and apply a range of measures in order to ensure
the ef?ciency and effectiveness of your institution. The
workshop involves an introduction to the driving forces of
foreign direct investment and the current trends; the
characteristics of a sound investment environment;
investment promotion policies, and in particular the role of
investment promotion agencies; best practices in invest-
ment promotion as well as enterprise development policies,
principles and operations.
The workshop is also designed to introduce a variety of
perspectives on leadership in the public and private sectors
to enable leaders and decision makers to introduce ?t-for-
purpose leadership styles and approaches to their organiza-
tions.
This workshop will focus on the question what do leaders
actually need to know about investment, business develop-
ment and the underlying boundlessness of the concept of
investment and enterprise promotions. Also what policy
makers need to do in order to promote investment and
business growth in their organizations.
Attending this workshop is an opportunity for senior
executives, managers, policy makers, academics, govern-
ment of?cials, students to get together and share their
knowledge about investment promotion, entrepreneurship
and leadership. Moreover the workshop will provide the
opportunity for participants to explore the various activities
(teaching, research, and consultancy) offered by the Middle
Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute (MEKEI), Univer-
sity of Brighton, UK and meet face to face MEKEI’s core
members and explores future collaboration and partnership.
Similar to previous workshops organized by MEKEI, this
multidisciplinary workshop is expected to attract large
number of executives and government of?cials in addition
to MEKEI members all over the world.
For more information about MEKEI, please visit:
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/bbs/research/meke/
http://www.meke.org
For registration contact:
Tel: + 44 (0) 1273 457 718 or + 44 (0) 1273 840 456
doc_890935560.pdf
This document about international executiveworkshop leadership, investment promotion and entrepreneurship.
International
ExecutiveWorkshop
Leadership, Investment Promotion and
Entrepreneurship Development
concepts, strategy and practice
Sunday 27
th
- Tuesday 29
th
October 2013
Abu Dhabi - U.A.E
www.mekei.org
Facilitators
Professor Allam Ahmed
PhD MBA MSc FCIM Chartered Marketer
Director - Middle Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute
(MEKEI)
Brighton Business School, University of Brighton, United
Kingdom
Allam completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Edinburgh
Napier University, UK. He obtained his MSc/MBA from
the Royal Agricultural University, UK and awarded the
RAC Scholarship and Prestigious Book Prize for Best
MSc/MBA Dissertation. He is a Fellow and Chartered
Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.
Allam is the Founding Director of MEKEI and is based at
the Science and Technology Policy Research - SPRU
(world leader in research, consultancy and teaching in the
?eld of Science and Technology Policy) University of
Sussex, where he established and lead the postgraduate
programme MSc International Management. In 2009 he
was appointed to lead the Government of Abu Dhabi major
and ?rst of its kind in the Middle East Knowledge Manage-
ment Framework (Musharaka). Allam produced more than
120 publications, including eighteen books, numerous
articles on knowledge and technology transfer and manage-
ment. He is the recipient of several international Awards
and Medals and listed in the WHO'S WHO IN THE
WORLD 2009-2014, WHO'S WHO IN FINANCE and
BUSINESS 2009/2010 and WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA
2012 published by Marquis Who's Who, USA.
Professor John Adams
BA (Hons) PG DipEd PhD
Head - Department of Economics
The British University in Egypt (BUE), Cairo, Egypt
Professor Adams is the Head of the Department of Econom-
ics at the British University in Egypt. He was, until 2010,
Director of the China-EU Research Centre based at
Edinburgh Napier University and Economic Policy Adviser
to Age Scotland. He has published widely in the ?eld of
economics in both national and international academic
journals, is the co-author of several textbooks and
completed external examiner-ships at the Universities of
Dundee, Sussex and Hong Kong in 2010. Professor Adams
has also undertaken consultancy assignments for a wide
range of public and private sector organisations in the UK
and overseas. He is currently a visiting Professor at three
universities in China. His research is mainly focused on
economic development and on the process of development.
He is currently editor, executive editor, co-editor and
associate editor of four academic journals, two of these
focused on economic issues in China and two on develop-
ment processes (The World Review of Entrepreneurship,
Management and Sustainable Development and The World
Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Develop-
ment). He is also an executive board member of the
International Institute for Investment Promotion based in
Zurich, Switzerland. Professor Adams co-developed a
Masters degree in Investment Promotion & Economic
Development with DIAS of Zurich which is delivered to
students in over 30 countries. He has also provided training
workshops in Investment Promotion for staff of Govern-
ment agencies in Kuwait, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, St.
Lucia and several other countries. In 2011 he co-organised
an international conference on Monopoly and Competition
with the Arab Organisation for Administrative Develop-
ment (ARADO).
Professor Sonny Nwankwo
PhD FCIM FRSA FHEA Chartered Marketer
Director - Noon Centre for Equality & Diversity in
Business
University of East London, United Kingdom
Sonny Nwankwo is Professor of Marketing and Director of
the Noon Centre for Equality & Diversity in Business at the
University of East London, UK. He was the founding
Director of the Petchey Centre of Entrepreneurship at the
University of East London, previously the Director of
Research and Enterprise within East London Business
School and the inaugural President of the International
Academy of African Business and Development. He is
widely published and a recipient of the ANBAR Citation of
Excellence for Highest Quality Rating. Professor
Nwankwo is on the Editorial Advisory/Review Board of
several academic journals. He is External Assessor and
Visiting Professor at universities in the United Kingdom,
Australia, Thailand and across Africa. Prior to entering
academia, he was a manager in the telecommunications
industry. Prof Nwankwo developed his research in Market-
ing, with specialism in consumerism under conditions of
market failure. Through his current research, he seeks to
extend the normative boundaries of marketing by focusing
diverse and often culture-speci?c challenges of economic
behaviour, and the power of individuals to create value and
make choices in the marketplace both as consumers and
entrepreneurs. Thus, from the broader ?eld of consumer
behaviour and its role in shaping identities and interactions,
he extends his attention to the dynamics of entrepreneur-
ship among the British ethnic minority population, particu-
larly the entrepreneurial processes of Africans in the UK.
His research in this area examines the relations between
entrepreneurial identity and individual life histories in the
context of everyday interactions.
Day Two
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival Refreshments and Networking
09:00 - 10:30 Session (4)
Speaking in public places
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Evaluating the host economy environment for FDI
Prof. John Adams
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - turnaround strategies -
rescuing ailing ?rms
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 - 12:30
Session (5A)
Effective leadership
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (5B)
Critical analysis of FDI incentive frameworks
Prof. John Adams
Session (5C)
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - dyslectics of sustainability
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch/Pray and Networking
13:30 - 15:00
Session (6A)
Case Study (group work) and discussion
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (6B)
Case Study (group work) and discussion
Prof. John Adams
Session (6C)
Case study (group work) and discussion
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
15:00 End of Day Two
E-mail: [email protected] or
[email protected]
Day Three
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival Refreshments and Networking
09:00 - 10:30 Session (7)
How to become an aspiring leader
Prof. Allam Ahmed
IPA's and Good Investment Promotion Practice
Prof. John Adams
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - the grey areas & opportunity
structures
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 - 12:30
Session (8A)
Lessons learned from great leaders
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (8B)
Developing a modern IPA for Sudan
Prof. John Adams
Session (8C)
Attributions of entrepreneurship - lessons from successful
world-class entrepreneurs
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch/Pray and Networking
13:30 - 14:30 Roundtable Discussion/Re?ection
End of Workshop
Fax: + 44 (0) 1273 697616
Programme overview
Day One
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival Refreshments and Networking
09:00 - 11:00 Session (1)
Introduction to leadership
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Introduction to global developments in FDI
Prof. John Adams
Introduction to entrepreneurship and SMEs development
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break and Networking
11:30 - 13:00
Session (2A)
Difference between leadership and management
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (2B)
Key drivers of FDI
Prof. John Adams
Session (2C)
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - dynamic growth processes
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch/Pray and Networking
14:00 - 15:30
Session (3A)
Leadership skills and tactics
Prof. Allam Ahmed
Session (3B)
Barriers to FDI and domestic investment
Prof. John Adams
Session (3C)
Entrepreneurship and SMEs - failure crises
Prof. Sonny Nwankwo
15:00 End of Day One
Mob.: + 44 (0) 7788 279 898 or 44 (0) 7772 851 284
Aims And Objectives
This three-day executive workshop provides participants
with the knowledge and skills necessary to assess the
investment environment in which your organizations are
operating, whether public or private. It will also assist you
to identify and apply a range of measures in order to ensure
the ef?ciency and effectiveness of your institution. The
workshop involves an introduction to the driving forces of
foreign direct investment and the current trends; the
characteristics of a sound investment environment;
investment promotion policies, and in particular the role of
investment promotion agencies; best practices in invest-
ment promotion as well as enterprise development policies,
principles and operations.
The workshop is also designed to introduce a variety of
perspectives on leadership in the public and private sectors
to enable leaders and decision makers to introduce ?t-for-
purpose leadership styles and approaches to their organiza-
tions.
This workshop will focus on the question what do leaders
actually need to know about investment, business develop-
ment and the underlying boundlessness of the concept of
investment and enterprise promotions. Also what policy
makers need to do in order to promote investment and
business growth in their organizations.
Attending this workshop is an opportunity for senior
executives, managers, policy makers, academics, govern-
ment of?cials, students to get together and share their
knowledge about investment promotion, entrepreneurship
and leadership. Moreover the workshop will provide the
opportunity for participants to explore the various activities
(teaching, research, and consultancy) offered by the Middle
Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute (MEKEI), Univer-
sity of Brighton, UK and meet face to face MEKEI’s core
members and explores future collaboration and partnership.
Similar to previous workshops organized by MEKEI, this
multidisciplinary workshop is expected to attract large
number of executives and government of?cials in addition
to MEKEI members all over the world.
For more information about MEKEI, please visit:
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/bbs/research/meke/
http://www.meke.org
For registration contact:
Tel: + 44 (0) 1273 457 718 or + 44 (0) 1273 840 456
doc_890935560.pdf