Business meeting minutes
Guimarães, Portugal, 24 June 2009

The meeting was called to order at 11:50am by Nancy Russo (US)

1. Nancy started by thanking the organizers of the conference for the Guimarães conference just concluded.

2. Upcoming events were presented:
a. The next event will be an Oasis Workshop to be held around the ICIS conference in Phoenix, AZ. ICIS this year starts on Wednesday, so a question is whether the Oasis should be before or after the conference

In a very dinamyc presentation Prof. Michael Dowling from University of Regensburg -DE told us about his research about entrepreneurship in high tech startups.
He told that the intensity of international competition in new technologies has increased dramatically in the last few years and a key success factor has become the ability of entrepreneurs to manage both new technologies and business opportunities. He presented some USA and Germany research projects, some real cases of entrepreneurs and success cases.

21-jun-2009
Panel: It was a very dynamic panel and finished after the planned time.
Prof. Carl Adams (University of Portsmouth-UK) and Isabel Ramos (University of Minho - PT) presented the first panel.
At first Carl Adams began making a joke showing us two boxes and asking to guess how many sweets in each box and to write the answer on a paper. Each guess tried to answer how many sweets are there in each box.
After this exercise he asked guess what was and is crowdsourcing?