Entrepreneurship Development and the University. Experiences from Tilburg University and Brabant Joop Vianen Professor in Entrepreneurship Brno, 2006

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1 Entrepreneurship Development and the University Experiences from Tilburg University and Brabant Joop Vianen Professor in Entrepreneurship Brno, 2006

2 Questions University-Business relation: which problem in knowledge transfer to regional businesses? What is the intervention of Tilburg University? How to stimulate the entrepreneurial carreer option among academia? Which lessons for stimulating academic entrepreneurship?

3 Dutch innovation paradox and economic performance Scientific performance: Innovation: Entrepreneurship: Economic performance: high low low average

4 Dutch Innovation Paradox R&D expenditure: 2% of GNP Patents: high 450 per mln persons (EU average: 300) Innovative products and services: low Non technological innovations: low (21% of the firms EU25: 27%)

5 Investment in Knowledge OECD (2002) for Greece and Italy for Korea. EU figure excludes Belgium, Greece and Italy. OECD figure excludes Belgium, Greece, Italy and New Zealand. 2. Excludes Greece and Italy data

6 Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurschip-rate : more or less average Increase of e ship: from backward to average University students interest: very low

8 Nederland Noord Brabant

9 Province of Brabant: general Population: 2.4 mln (15% of NL) ) 15% of the Dutch companies Most industrialized province Strong MNE: Philips, ASML Strong international orientation Business performance better than NL

10 Brabant: innovation Top of EU most innovative regions Many techno-startups and fastgrowers R&D expenditure 23% of national R&D Business R&D 35% and KI 8% of national Patents 1/3 is from Brabant Low labourproductivity SME: staying behind in innovation

11 Brabant: entrepreneurship Less new startups than national Strong immigration of firms (nat.-intern.) Net growth of firms higher than national University Spin offs: low

12 Brabant: in short Industrialized innovative province High level of R&D, mainly by MNE Less innovative SME Moderate level of entrepreneurship Underutilisation of Knowledge Institutes

13 Nederland Brabant Tilburg

14 Tilburg University Important Faculties: - Economics and Business Administration - Social sciences Top level research: - nr 1 in Economics and - nr 3 in BA

15 Tilburg University Students Graduates Phd thesis 50 Publications Personnel/staff FTE Professors 115 Budget 135 mln

16 Tilburg University: Strategic Plan Some cornerstones: Excellence in research and education Internationalisation Valorisation Contributing to a strong region Academic entrepreneurship promotion

17 Benefits of Universities for Industry 1. producing scientific information 2. training skilled graduates 3. supporting new scientific networks and stimulating interaction 4. expanding the capacity for problem solving 5. producing new instrumentation and methodologies/techniques 6. creating new firms 7. providing social knowledge Source: SPRU

18 Valorisation Type of knowledge Knowledge networks: nationalinternational Small and large business

19 Valorisation: regional interventions 1. Educational trajectory: Student-outflow Internships and thesis SME Window 2. Research: Contractresearch Training and education 3. Spin Offs: Stud entrepreneurs Researcher s Spin offs

20 Promotion of stud entrepreneurs 1. Awareness creation 2. Encouraging 3. Facilitating

21 Awareness creation Courses on BA and MA level, mainly in FEB Theoretical course on entrepreneurschip Practical course: businessplanning together with a regional start ups Preparing for start ups: Entrepreneurship Certificates

22 Encouraging Educational: Development of Businessplan on top of regular degrees Non-educational Set up and support of a stud entrepreneurs club: the ABC Linking them with student initiatives at other universities Different symposia and conferences on entrepreneurschip with Role Models

23 Facilitating Housing: a Business Centre Coaching and skill development: by outsiders Financing: seed capital from other public funds

24 Researcher s spin off How to stimulate reasearchers to start their business? No culture for spinoffs: objectives, credibility, competency, incentives Institutional barrières: contracts, patents Individual approach to entrepreneurial carreer option Matching researchers and students to develop business concepts

25 Nederland Brabant Tilburg Eindhoven

26 Brabant Centre for Entrepreneurship (BCE) Cooperation Tilburg University and Technical University Einhoven Supported by regional business organisations Focussing on: students,researchers and entrepreneurs Further development with support of the government

27 Brabant Centre for Entrepreneurship To develop higher quality educational programmes for their students Entrepreneurship certificates for - Techn. students - Nontech. students - Team start ups of Tech and Nontech students To encourage researchers to develop business startups Training and advising centre for regional entrepreneurs

28 Lessons Promotion of Academic entrepreneurship is a matter of: Strategy of the University Organisational culture and structure Awareness of staff, researchers and students Accountability on faculty level Incentives/reward system on personal and institutional level Professional management of industry relations Different external communication

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