Richard Kivel, Chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum and CEO of TheraGenetics presents in this speech the main characteristics of the ideal ecosystem to support the entrepreneurship. This ecosystem has tree main agents:

  - Innovation ecosystem, created by university research labs, public policies, researchers, etc

  - Service providers, as companies of funding (Venture Capital, private foundations, etc), governments, support for Start-Ups, etc

  - Education and competition, where to create, stimulate and  train entrepreneurs.

Also, he showed a case study of the ecosystem where his company TheraGenetics grew.

For Richard, the entrepreneurs are a key piece in the development of the emergent sector of biotechnology, which in Europe, and specially in Spain, has a great potential of growth. He finishes by analyzing the trends that will influence this sector the future.

Mr. Richard Kivel is actually Chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum. Also, Kivel is also CEO of TheraGenetics, personalized medicine diagnostic company. Before that, Kivel led the MIT as CEO (2001 to 2004). During that time, He founded several companies related to science/healthcare, as MolecularWare, was successfully. Kivel is also CEO of TheraGenetics in London, frequent guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has been one of the judges for the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition since 1998, speaks internationally and works on behalf of many organizations to promote entrepreneurship in the United States, Canada and Europe, exerts as a Lead Catalyst for the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and is a founding board member of Biolink USA-Ireland.