Entrepreneurship Development and the University

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: high • Innovation: low • Entrepreneurship: low • Economic performance: 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 KnowledgeOECD (2002) • 1994-2001 for Greece and Italy. 1995 • -2002 forKorea. EU figure excludes • Belgium, Greece and Italy. OECD • figure excludes Belgium, • Greece, Italy and New Zealand. • 2. Excludes Greece and Italy. • 3. 2001 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 11.000 • Graduates 1.500 • Phd thesis 50 • Publications 1.750 • Personnel/staff 1.300 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 • producing scientific information • training skilled graduates • supporting new scientific networks and stimulating interaction • expanding the capacity for problem solving • producing new instrumentation and methodologies/techniques • creating new firms • providing social knowledge Source: SPRU

18. Valorisation • Type of knowledge • Knowledge networks: national-international • 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