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Global Venture Lab challenges researchers, students and business experts to solve major problems
Global Venture Lab (GVL) an international growth enterprise laboratory brings together students, researchers and business professionals under the same roof and challenges them to change their ways of thinking and acting in relation to research, studies and entrepreneurial activity.
GVL operations started up in the USA on 21 November 2008, and in India on 8 January 2009. The Finnish Global Venture Lab was publicized in Jyväskylä AND TAMPERE in March 2009.
In Finland, GVL is a University Alliance Finland Research Cluster of Excellence. The home base comprises Tampere University of Technology (TUT), the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) and the University of Tampere (UTA) – Finland's largest university entity.
GVL is a growth environment of enterprises relying on investments of knowledge and competence in exchange of equity. Knowledge investments can be thought of as shared parenthood of business ventures. In GVL, the student is to research, the researcher to engage in business and the business guru to study – or the other way around.
According to Professor of growth venturing Marko Seppä of the University of Jyväskylä, the Finnish founder of the Global Venture Lab, this is a boundary breaking organization. It operates in several universities, but is not owned by them.
“GVL is a novel community of globally thinking individuals” explains Professor Seppä.
GVL aims specifically at solving so-called megaproblems through growth enterprise activity: alternative energy, clean technology and sustainable development are keyword for GVL. Key individuals are united by a passion for growth enterprise to save the world.
