The course is open to everybody interested in high-tech start-ups, especially to PhD, master, and graduate students as well as engineers and professionals.
6 ECTS points are awarded to each participant.

School Overview

• Introduction
• Administrative Information
• Registration
• Costs and Special Fees
• Accommodation
• How to find the University of Lugano?
• Schedule
• Lecturers
• Course Material
• Information Leaflet

Introduction
This Autumn School, organized by the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) at University of Lugano, within a framework of the IST ANTITESYS Project (IST 2001-34370), aims at providing the attendees with the skills necessary to become high-tech entrepreneurs. The course covers all the main topics involved in the start-up of a high-tech business such as: business models, management, marketing, financing, technological issues, legislative framework (with specific reference, even though not exclusively, to the case of Canton Ticino). The event creates an entrepreneurial ambience in which the students are expected to prepare a business plan for a start-up company as a course project. The School program involves students in formal lecture sessions as well as in creating their own projects for start-ups, defining the business plans and the funding strategies and defending their proposal in front an evaluation board. Interaction with top-level experts will be granted in this challenging phase.
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Administrative Information
Date	October 13th - 17th 2003 Time: Every day in the morning and in the afternoon. For the specific schedule please see the special schedule section.
Venue	University of Lugano Via Buffi 13 6900 Lugano
	Main building Room 300
ALaRI Address	Advanced Learning and Research Institute - ALaRI University of Lugano Via G. Buffi 13 6904 Lugano Switzerland
Phone and Fax	Phone: +41 (0)91 912 47 06 Fax: +41 (0)91 912 46 47
E-mail	Program Manager Umberto Bondi: bondi@alari.ch Communication Manager Carola Salvioni: salvioni@alari.ch Administration Office Katya Frigerio: frigerio@unisi.ch
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Registration
Attendance will be limited to no more than 30 participants. The precedence will be given to the registrations arriving first. Your CV is welcome but not compulsory. The number of participants has been completed, we are sorry but no other registration can be accepted! – Thank you all – Please download the registration form here Registration by FAX For your registration to the Autumn School on Entrepreneurship for High-tech Start-ups, please download the registration form and send it via Fax to the following number: Umberto Bondi, Fax: +41 91 912 46 47 Registration by e-mail You can also register via e-mail In this case send your registration e-mail (providing all the information requested on the registration form) to: Umberto Bondi, e-mail: bondi@alari.ch top   Costs and Special Fees Full fees (covering teaching material, lectures, lunch, coffee breaks) amount to 3000 Swiss Francs (2000EUR). For ANTITESYS industrial partners (CEENET, ST Microelectronics, Intracom SA, Intel, Mentor Italia S.r.l., Infineon Technologies SA) the fees amount to 2000CHF (1350EUR *). For ANTITESYS academic partners (Politecnico di Milano, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Lugano, IMEC) the fees amount to 300CHF (200EUR *). For students the fees amount to 500CHF (350EUR *). Thanks to the contribution of the canton Ticino within the framework of the Copernico project, the registration fee for Ticino residents or natives amounts only to 100CHF (70EUR *). * The fees in Euro are purely indicative. Fees in EURO will be based on the exchange rate of your subscription day. top   Accommodation Each participant has to book and to pay for her/his own accommodation. A list of recomended hotels in the Lugano area is provided here: Hotels for Autumn School You can also have a look at http://www.ticino-tourism.ch/. top   How to Find the University of Lugano? Car From north: Leaving the highway at "Lugano Nord", follow indications to center and "Università". From south: Leaving the highway at "Lugano Sud", following the indications to center, going on at the lakeside, turn left when you see indication "Università". The University is provided with an underground parking. Train Please have a look at The Swiss Railway web site at: http://www.rail.ch/!   Map of Lugano 1 = University of Lugano top   Schedule Autumn School 2003 agenda can be found here!   top   Lecturers The team of lecturers comprises university professors with long experience in the relevant areas and experts from companies and research centers such as Intel and CSEM. Course directors M. Malek (Humboldt Universität Berlin) G. Serazzi (Politecnico di Milano) Course lecturers R. Auinger (adverum ag, CH) G. Azzone (Politecnico di Milano, I) S. Caine (Intel Venture Capital, Haifa, IL) F. Castiglione (Cantone Ticino, CH) G. Colombo (University of Lugano, CH) M. Curley (Intel, Ireland, E) M. Dell'Ambrogio (SUPSI, CH) G. Faltin (Freie Universität Berlin, D) A. Gysi (BSI: Banca della Svizzera Italiana, CH) C. Piguet (CSEM, Neuchatel, CH) I. Snehota (University of Lugano, CH) Representatives of the Volkswagen Wolfsburg incubator, etc. top   Course Material The course material will be made available to the school participants on a dedicated page of the ALaRI/ANTITESYS intranet at the beginning of the school. top   Information Leaflet This information leaflet is free for downloading Please print and distribute it within your organization. top