Smith Business Close-Up: Global Innovation
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012,
7:30 a.m.
With the economic struggles worldwide, leaders point to innovation
and entrepreneurship as answer for growth and new opportunities. How can
still developing economies, such as China, and even other players,
including Israel, foster global innovation that can help grow the
economy here at home?
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Asher Epstein talks about
the opportunities of global innovation. Epstein is managing director of
the Smith School’s Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship. Founded in 1986, the Dingman Center is a top-tier
entrepreneurial institute recognized around the world as a leader in
enterprise creation. The center actively encourages a real-world
business culture that innovatively bridges the theoretical with the
practical. Each year, the Dingman Center organizes student experience to
explore entrepreneurship in China and Israel through an annual China
Business Plan Competition in Beijing in January and a summer technology
transfer fellowship in with Israel’s Technion Institute.
Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School
of Business and Maryland Public Television. The television segment focuses on
the latest thinking in business management, and features in-depth interviews
with Smith School faculty and other members of the school’s community of
business leaders.
Where to Watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland
Public Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30
p.m. on Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on public television
stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region, including:
- WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
- WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
- WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
- WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
- WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
- WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
