Organizers

The EBRF 2011 Global Business Creation Games conference is organised by GVL Finland.

In November 2010, GVL Finland expanded nation-wide. University of Jyväskylä, Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere - jointly referred to as University Alliance Finland - were joined by Aalto University, Abo Akademi University, Lappeenranta University of Technology and University of Oulu.

Global Venture Lab (GVL) action started as American-Finnish-Indian cooperation in 2007. The three co-founders represent Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, University Alliance Finland at University of Jyväskylä, and University of California at Berkeley. In 2008, University Alliance Finland chose the University of Jyväskylä led GVL Finland five-year pilot program (2007-2011) as a research cluster of excellence. In November 2009, GVL Network was formally launched as a community of 26 university members worldwide.

GVL Finland works to launch a nation-wide, second stage pilot of a distributed, globally scalable ecosystem platform for a new domain of knowing – coined as "Art of Business Creation" – where academicians, entrepreneurs, policy makers and students co-create new knowledge, new companies, new policies and new masters, simultaneously, together.

GVL Finland’s current mission will reach maturity at EBRF 2011.