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Entrepreneurship support at the
University of Twente: Acceleration of
Regional Economic Growth
Prof. Dr. Aard J. Groen
Head of department Entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy and international
management
Scientific director NIKOS,
[email protected]
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Presentation
• NIKOS
• Opportunities and results of spin off program TOP
from University of Twente
• Successes but also issues to solve
• Approach of design of support structure
• Firm level
• University level
• Q&A
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Activitities in NIKOS
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Business Development
TOP
NENSI
KEB
Bepart
Mephi
Global starts
Business
Development
Support
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Training & consultancy
Market orientation HTSF
KVGO/VNO-NCW
Rabo
International consultancy
Research
Entrepreneurship
in
networks
Training
and
Consultancy
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Research
The role of entrepreneurial networking
University-Industry Interaction (ECIU)
E-commerce in SME’s
Global start ups
Database of knowledge intensive firms
Marie Curie Training site
High Tech Small firm Conference0
Teaching
Teaching
• Minor Entrepreneurship, international management
• High tech business development
• Msc Innovative Entrepreneurship & business
development
• ECIU Master Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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How to stimulate growth in high tech based firms?
• Laissez faire, the invisible hand of the market will do
its work
• Governmental intervention, The visible hand steers
the region: e.g.transfer state service organisations to
the region; or start an university
• Co-ordinate many visible hands by building
entrepreneurial networks on micro level
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Nano, IT, Biomedtech and entrepreneurship research:
From fundamental to multidisciplinary work
Healthcare@UT
MESA
nanomedicine
Business
development &
Tech dynamics
embedded
systems
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IGSNIKOS
CTIT
telemedicine
BMTI
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Forms of creating value in different research types
Fundamental
Demonstrator
Integrator/
Applicator
Opportunity
Recognition
Publication or IPR
External 2nd opinion on
technology
Incentive for inventor
Social culture researchers
Proprietary IPR
Incentive for inventor
External 2nd opinion on
business aspects
Scouting for business ideas
Market-pull and productbased technology
development
Seed money
Opportunity
Preparation
Role of technology in value
chain
Application for
grants/subsidy (NWO,
EU, STW)
Demolab feasibility
Business model
Market data
PMC
Spin-off creation (TOP)
Entrepreneurial process
Investors
Opportunity
Exploitation
Concept creation
(Industrial) scientific
networking
External communication
(science, education,
society)
Business network
Business Development
Process
Business valuation of
technology
Licensing/Co-development
with industry (grants)
Incubator (labs, offices,
administration)
Science Park
Production and
commercialization
Management
multidisciplinarity
Valorization Process
Research Process
PMC
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Evolving
sociotechnical
landscapes
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A patchwork
of regimes
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Novel
“configurations
that work”
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[1] Novelty, shaped by existing regime
[2] Evolves, is taken up, may modify regime
[3] Landscape is transformed
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The entrepreneurial process
Entrepreneur
Opportunity
recognition
Opportunity
development
Value
creation
Network
Imagination
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Support throughout enterprise genesis process
Concept
development
Idea generation
Entrepreneurship
Network
TOP
ENT-Training
Coaching
Accelerator
Incubator
Technopark
training,
courses,
Organisation development
Venture capital &
financing
Housing/facilities
(technopark)
organisational support
(CI)
networks
“Train the trainer”
Monitoring entrepreneurship development
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What are the needs of an entrepreneur?
• Culture, values, norms
• Facilities
• Personel arrangements &
Systems
• Knowledge
Skills:
Patterns of
Organisation
Contacts with:
- clients
- suppliers
- experts
- colleagues
- support agents
• Ideas
• Assessing the
opportunity
Scope:
from
idea to
Strategy
Entrepreneur
and
Enterprise
Social
NetworkContacts
• Strategic processes
• Business plan
Scale: Economy:
Financial means
• Own capital
• bridging development
period
• Financing investments
- Venture Capital
- Loans
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Support instruments
• Culture, values, norms
• Facilities
• Personelrrangements &
Systems
• Knowledge
Knowledge &
Space
Organisational
support
Skills:
Patterns of
Organisation
Contacts with:
- clients
- suppliers
- experts
- colleagues
- support agents
Contacts
Brokerage
• Ideas
• Assessing the
opportunity
Scope:
from
idea to
Strategy
Entrepreneur
Strategic
• BusinessCoach
plan
Coaching,
and
training
& Courses
Enterprise
Social
NetworkContacts
• Strategic processes
Scale: Economy:
Financial means
• Own capital
• bridging development
period
• Financing investments
- Venture Capital
- Loans
Soft loans
participation
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Spin off Companies University of Twente
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Economic results:
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500 firms in TOP program (since 1985)
Approx. 400 survived
Total direct employment in region > 4000 fte
Indirect employment ?
Clustering: ICT, biomedical, process technologies,
nano (around Mesa+)
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Issues
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Spin offs are small (medium) sized
Growth is small
Distance to market  death valley
IP returns to University until now via direct financing
of research and infrastructure
• IP: patents are recently taken by UT: aim long term
growth of IP returns
• What about creating business in/with existing firms?
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Issues
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Market orientation versus technology orientation
Operational effectiveness versus Strategic flexibility
Service or product / production
Strategic partnering (TIMP)
Management competencies
Building of industrial networks
Global arena
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Characteristics of high ambition spin offs
• Culture, values, norms
• Facilities
Balanced
teams &
• Personelrrangements
Systems
combining
management,
• Knowledge
commercial &
technology skills
Skills:
Patterns of
Organisation
Scope:
from
idea to
Strategy
• Assessing
the
Growth
ambition
opportunity
Strategic
focus
based on
• Strategic
processes
insights
in T-M-O
• Business
plan
dynamics & value
creation
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial
and
and market
orientation
Enterprise
Strong connections with
market
Contacts (suppliers-clients)
with:
clients
Managing strong & weak
- suppliers
ties
(in business &
- experts
colleagues
academic world)
- support agents
• Ideas
Social
NetworkContacts
Scale: Economy:
Financial means
Overcoming death valley
(time-to-market
vs
• Own capital
investments)
through
• bridging development
period
access
to venture capital
• Financing investments
(Formal-informal
- Venture Capital
- Loans
investors)
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UT-Entrepreneurship Support Structure:
Innovation Lab Twente
• Decentralised into research institutes, accelerators
• Specialised business development support from
NIKOS and BCvB staff
• Market-academy connection via accelerators
(business developers) in the research institutes
• Utility sharing
• Venture capital network
• UT-strategy, focus on spearheads of research
(converging technologies: Nano-IT-biomed)
• At least 10-15% of academic staff involved in leading
the entrepreneurial activities
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Incubators
Twente Life Sciences Business Accelerator
Nanotech accelerator
Business & Technology Centre – BTC-Twente
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Entrepreneurship in the curriculum (1)
3yr Bachelor / elective Minor
1 & 2 year Master programme
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Entrepreneurship in the curriculum (2)
• Advanced Technologies
– Bachelor programme with “entrepreneurship and business
development” as a specialisation
• Industrial Design
– In Bachelor programme: Market-oriented entrepreneurship
• Business & Information Technolgies
– In Master programme: Business Development in Networks
• For Ph D students: Business planning and technology dynamics
• For all students (elective):
– Become your own Boss
– Managing an SME
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Characteristics of successful support of
entrepreneurial processes
• Multi-dimensional (strategy, organisation, networking,
economics)
• Multi-level networking: firm level, regional level,
global networks enhancing University Industry
Interaction across technological fields
• Multi-actor: combining heterogeneous competencies
e.g. creativity,technology, and marketing
competencies
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New Program for generating High potential
entrepreneurial teams creating business out
of UT-technology
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Group based support/selection
• Kansrijk eigen baas (200 firms created in 2,5 year in
Achterhoek)
• Individual trajectories (self selection based)
• Group based (n=60, 4-6 months)
• Self selection + assessment
• Intensive training, ideas brought in, process of
enterprise concept development
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High Tech / High potential
Group based selection process
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Enterprising with knowledge
Group based (n=60, 4-6 months) + team/concept
based 1 year
Target groups students Saxion, UT & persons with
work experience
Using high potential business concepts UT
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High Tech / High potential
Group based selection process
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Self selection + assessment
Intensive training, general ideas brought in,
process of enterprise concept development
Selection of high potential T-M-F teams matched
with high potential business concepts
Small group/personal coaching with high level
business coaches
Network with international VC-funds
Office space 1000m2
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Expected Results
• Groups of 60 persons
• 30 firms based on own idea development of
participants (after 5 years 25 firms, employment
>250)
• 5 firms based on high potential ideas matched with
teams based on selection during program (after 5
years, 2-3 firms, employment >250)
• 2 groups per year, 3 years  employment after 8
year >3000
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Questions and remarks?
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