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1 Challenge the future

Entrepreneurship @ TU Delft

YES!Delft as an example of an integrated approach


Characteristics E@TUDelft

• Integrated approach

• Includes all Faculties

• Incubator YES!Delft and pre incubation at Faculty level

• Awareness for students and Awards for the TU Delft most

entrepreneurial scientist and the TU Delft innovation award

• Enterpreneurship is key at TU Delft

• Enterpreneurship education linked with research in

responsible innovation at Faculty TPM; at TPM also Delft

Centre of Entrepreneurship

• Strong link with Municipality of Delft, co-shareholder

YES!Delft.


A challenging program to educate tomorrow’s leading entrepreneurs

• Bachelor’s Level

• Inspiration/awareness creation

• Different Minors for students all Faculties

• Master’s Level

• Entrepreneurship Kaleidoscope

• Specialised electives

• Master thesis

• Graduated

• YES!Delft LaunchLab

• YES!Delft Incubator

• Holding TU Delft

• Overall

• Support and guidance for (future) student-entrepreneurs

• One program for all faculties

What do we offer


First year: Inspiration

Entrepreneurship Forum


Third year: Minor

International Entrepreneurship &

Development


Bachelor level Minors and different Electives

• Minors such as International Entrepreneurship &

Development, Medtech-based entrepreneurship, D:Dream

and Technology-based entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurial courses such as Sustainable entrepreneurship

and Business plans.


Master

• Pilot Entrepreneurship Kaleidoscope

• A wide variety of electives

• Part of the master thesis

• Master Annotation Entrepreneurship

Putting emphasis on enterpreneurship


Entrepreneurship Kaleidoscope

• Introduction course for all third year bachelor, master

students about entrepreneurship

• Overview of the different ‘entrepreneurial’ paths you can take

at the TU Delft

• Topics such as business models, idea creation, cleantech,

social and corporate entrepreneurship

• Different speakers and rolemodels

• 80 students expected 1st edition

First year master


Electives

• Electives for all TU Delft students like How to write your

business plan or Turning technology into business

• Electives at the different Faculties like launching tech

ventures at Faculty of Industrial Engineering

First and second year master


Characteristics of electives


Interactive


Network possibilities

afterwards


Teamwork


Final day


Award ceremony


Master Annotation

Entrepreneurship

• Reward for combining your master with entrepreneurship:

• Entrepreneurship Kaleidoscope

• 12 ECTS electives

• Entrepreneurship part of the master thesis

• 40 graduate students in 2012


YES!Delft


YES!Delft some characteristics

• 116 companies, 85 mln invested capital, 550 jobs, 41 mln

generated revenue.

• Combination of inspiration, education, incubation and growth

• YES!Delft students as important element on inspirational

lectures and talks, entrepreneurship trip, 3 day start-up

weekend

• YES!Pro as the entrepreneurship development program.

• Experiences business coaches give in-depth guidance

• Network of entrepreneurs, service providers, investors and

technical experts.

• Facilities such as clean room and work places

• Network meetings and workshops on wide range of subjects

• YES!Delft launch lab


• The first step in becoming a successful company

• 3 Months accelerator programme

• 10 Companies participate in first round

• 23 Coaches involved in programme

• Presenting results on Demo Day


Cimate KIC and ICT KIC funded

by EIT

• Emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship

• Network of knowledge institutes and companies, well

established links with 2 other technical universities in the

Netherlands (ICT KIC) and with Wageningen and Utrecht

University (Climate KIC) and with links to other European

partners as KTH, Imperial, ETH, Paris Tech

• Introduction of a Climate KIC label

• Introduction new electives

• Clean tech challenge approach implemented at different

Climate KIC partners

• Dedicated support programme for clean tech and for ict start-

ups


TU Delft approach and challenges

for the future

• Strengthening of the integrated approach

• Two pre-incubation pilots at Faculty level

• Support and guidance for (future) student-entrepreneurs

• Strengthening education and research on entrepreneurship

• YES!Delft2; second building for incubation realised in 2015

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