Innovation, Valorisation and business development Succesful cooperation in university-industry networks

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Innovation, Valorisation and business
developmentSuccesful cooperation
inuniversity-industry networks

• Aard J. Groen

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Outline of presentation

• Who am I
• University of Twente
• NIKOS and school for management governance
• Our research
• center

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Prof. Dr. Aard J. GroenProfessor of Innovative
Entrepreneurship ValorisationUniversity of
Twente University of Groningen

• director NIKOS since 2001
• Leader research group lnnovation
  Entrepreneurship _at_ IGS Institute for Innovation
  and Governance Studies, University of Twente
• Associate editor Technovation Journal for
  technology entrepreneurship and innovation
  management. (Impact factor 2.995, 2010)
• Project leader Venture Lab Twente
• Activity lead Entrepreneurship support system
  EIT-ICT-Labs
• CvI Innovation compentency development in
  manufacturing firms
• Working together with Russian universities since
  1999 (Mephi) and more recent with HSE

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• location of University of Twente Groningen

Groningen
Amsterdam
Enschede
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Twente shifts from Textile industry to high tech
industry
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Healthcare_at_UT and RuG/UMCG
embedded systems
behavioral research users, communication,
learning
MESA
CTIT
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nano-medicine
IGS
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business development technology dynamics
Mechanics,processes, and control
regenerative- medicine
IGS-NIKOS
MIRA
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UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

• Founded in 1961 as the youngest of 3 Dutch
  Technical Universities
• Both technical and social sciences
• Compensation for loss of textile industry in the
  Twente region
• Entrepreneurial university
• 700 spin-off companies
• gt7000 jobs created

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An aerial overview
Business Science park
University of Twente Campus
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Public-private-partnership building an
interaction place for industry and
universitya.o. Siemens medical imaging,
Boeing-ten Cate,
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SPINOZA PRIZE 2009, Prof. Dr. Ir. Albert van der
Berg (Lab on Chip)

• Professor Albert van den Berg of the University
  of Twente received the Spinoza Price 2009 for his
  key breakthroughs in the understanding and
  manipulation of micro and nano channels, and the
  application of his knowledge to areas such as new
  medical equipment. This prize (Dutch Nobel
  Prize) presented by the Netherlands Organisation
  for Scientific Research (NWO) is the most
  prestigious Dutch award in science and is
  presented annually to scientists for pioneering
  research. Van den Berg heads the BIOS
  Lab-on-a-chip group, part of the MESA Institute
  for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente

• Spin offs a.o.
• Micronit lab on chip production technology
• Medimate Lab on chip lithium sensor
• Medspray nano-nozzles for medicine
• Solmate piezo electro 3 D chip design
  production

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Challenges high-tech high-growth

• Potential high-tech for prosperity and well-being
  
• Unique value propositions
• Use university potential
• Quality and qualtity of labour market
• Realizing personal ambitions technical
  entrepreneurs
• Lack of business competencies
• Overcoming thresholds hindrances
• Bridging the Valley of death

Importance High- tech high-growth
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Activitities in NIKOS Netherlands Institute for
Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship

• Research (SRO Innovation Entrepreneurship in
  IGS)
• Entrepreneurship in Networks/ent.heuristics
• Entrepreneurial University-Industry Interaction
• Market oriented business development
• Entrepreneurship business development in
  International Perspective
• Bio-medical Entrepreneurship
• Organizing for Innovation Entrepreneurship
• Corporate Entrepreurship

• Business Development
• TOP (25 years, n450 entrepreneurs)
• NENSI (incubator network)
• KEB (7 years, gt300 firms supported)
• Venture Lab Twente (may 2009-
• Bepart (Baltic network)
• Mephi (Moscow University)
• Global starts
• International business development

Research
Entrepreneurship in networks
Business Development Support
Teaching

• Teaching
• Bachelor programs courses
• Minor Entrepreneurship, international management
• Technology Venturing and Innovation at Venture
  Lab Twente
• Msc Business administration - Innovation
  Entrepreneurship - International Management
• Master Innovation Entrepreneurship ECIU with
  Aalborg University TU Berlin
• PhD training in Twente Graduate School

• Training consultancy
• Market orientation HTSF
• KVGO/VNO-NCW
• Manufacturing Industry Networks
• Rabo
• International consultancy

Training and Consultancy
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Innovation Entrepreneurship _at_ IGSFrom
Technology Talent to Business in International
Networks
Empirical fields
Technology
Human resources
Construction industry
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Innovation Entrepreneurship _at_ NIKOS Examples
of current projects

• Competencies for Innovation (Pieken in de Delta)
  to develop instruments for improvement of
  innovation competencies of manufacturing
  industry, three PhDs from HRM, Organizating
  Innovation Entrepreneurship
• VentureLab Twente (Region, Province, EFRO, UT,
  Saxion) developing instruments to stimulate High
  tech High growth companiesseveral PhDs on
  Entrepreneurial heuristics, Social media,
  University-Industry Interaction, Clean tech
  development.
• Global Entrepreneurship (3 TU professorship)
  Multi country study on development of solar
  energy technology based companies
• Systemic Innovation in Health Care Role of
  Entrepreneurs (i.c. PwC)
• Valuation of RD Black-Scholes versus Gauchy
  distribution based modelling (Casault, Linton,
  Groen)

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VentureLab International
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Basic and advanced offerings
Selective admittance based on assessment
High potential
Intensive strategic coaching, access to finance,
synergy groups
Specific program focus on technology-application
areas e.g. ICT, NANO, MEDICAL, ENERGY
Entree level
Program accessible for every admitted
enterpreneur/team on technology venturing
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VentureLab International a partner in creating
value

• ... for ambitious people teams going for fast
  growth
• Corporate Venturing
• Business Acceleration
• New Business Creation
• Softlanding
• ... using high tech with an international focus
• a flexible support program tailored to company
  needs

VLI Concept
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EIT-KIC ICT Labs Vision University-Industry
Networks basis for Innovation
Complete and complementary world-class innovation
nodes
Berlin
Stockholm
Paris
Academic and industrial clusters

Associate clusters in Budapest, London,
Trento Systematic build-up of ICT Labs beyond the
initial nodes

• Each node features at least
• One strong research institute
• One major university
• One European-based multinational company

• Active regional network of SME
• Full national and regional support

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Russian-Dutch Center for Innovative International
Business Development

• Main goalTo describe, explain developments,
  design managerial tools, and stimulate
  international collaboration in university-industry
  and industry-industry international networks
• In 2013 to start in context Russia-Netherlands
  (NW-EU)