EXIST III-Projekt KOpEE: KOBLENZ NETWORK OF OPEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENGINEERING Dr. Kornelia van der Beek Director of Gründungsbüro Koblenz (former Projectmanager of KOpEE) Tirana, 04. April 2012
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Basic Condititons KOpEE was established in November 2008 with a Contract Period of 3 years Budget: 800.000 Euro in total, with a Fundraise of 100.000 Euro Collaboration of of three Universities and two Research Institutions KOpEE is a project of the EXIST Initiative of the Federal Ministery of Economics and Technology 3
Collaboration of three Universities and two Research Institutions University in Koblenz WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management University of Applied Science Koblenz FGK FEE 4
http://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/koblenz/fb4/institute/ifm The Lead was at the University of Koblenz-Landau, the Initiator to implement the EXIST Project was Prof. Dr. Harald von Kortzfleisch 5
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EXIST EXIST is a support program of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) aimed at improving the entrepreneurial environment at universities and research institutions and at increasing the number of technology and knowledge based business start-ups. The EXIST program is part of the German government s Hightech Strategy for Germany and is co-financed by funding of the European Social Fund (ESF) 7
EXIST The EXIST program includes three program lines: http://www.exist.de/englische_version/index.php 8
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Main Goals of KOpEE To establish a lasting culture of scientific entrepreneurship at the universities Increase number and competitiveness of technology-oriented and knowledge-based foundations from science in the region of Koblenz-Mittelrhein 11
Concepts and potential of Founders Engineering Open Integral Methods Instruments Transparency Diffusion Participation Potential in the Region Koblenz-Mittelrhein Target Group: Students, Professors, Research Assistents, Researcher 12
Success factor: Key-competencies Universität Koblenz-Landau We adress the actors (target group) with their core competencies Computer Science Management Engineering 13 University at Koblenz WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management University of Applied Science Koblenz FGK FEE
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Activities KOpEE Congress Networking Public Relation Matching Trips into the World of Founders Idea Contest of Rhineland- Palatine Technological Entrepreneur-ial Design Thinking KOpEE Creativity Lab 15
Activity KOpEE-Congress 2009: 1. KOpEE-Congress Introduction to the regional acteurs 2010: 2. KOpEE-Congress Set up a Company within a Network 2011: 3. KOpEE-Congress Academic Entrepreneurship in Rhineland-Palatine 16
Activity Public Relation To start-up is cool! KOpEE-Stones KOpEE-Key Ring KOpEE-Post it KOpEE-Postcard EXIST- und KOpEE Information 17
Activity Visiting Technology Parks Exkursion in the world of start-ups: Visit of the Technologie Parks: Berlin Adlershof 18
Activity Visiting Technology Parks Exkursion in the world of start-ups: Visit of the Technolegie Park Sophia Antipolis 19
Activity KOpEE Creativity Lab The Creativity Lab was established near the University in the TechnologieZentrum Koblenz (TZK) 20
Activity School of Entrepreneurial Design Thinking Establishment of the School of Entrepreneurial Design Thinking The ED- School (www.ed-school.com) im Jahr 2010 21
Activity TET-Workshops The TET (Technological and Entrepreneurial Thinking)-Matching-Workshop is a yearly held Workshop: TET is an Instrument to systematically match Teams in order to work on potential and innovative start-up Ideas in diverse and complementary Teams Students and Resaercher from all Universities participate and work together - INTERDISCIPLINARITY Participants can be Idea Owner or Idea Seeker Working on one Problem/Idea/Start-up for three days according the Design Thinking Approach At the end of the Workshop Presentation of the Results to a Jury In all three Events Members of the High-Tech Gründerfonds have been involved. 22
Activity Idea Scouting: Idea Competition 23
Further Activity Workshops for Start-ups Workshops and Courses: How to run an own business business plan writing taxes, insurances, legal forms soft skills Since 2009 more than 250 participants Consulting 24
http://www.kopee20.de/ Matching of Competencies, mentores and capital 25
Success factor Networking Regional Institutions Universities & Research Facilities Chambers & Technological Centres Funding 26
http://www.kopee.de 27
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Dynamic 40+ supervised start-ups, including: 5 approved EXIST-Business Start-up Grant More than 10 application for the EXIST-Business Start-up Grant 1 EXIST-Transfer of Research Strategic Partnership with the Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) GmbH (Bank of Rhine-Palatinate) Foundation of the School of Entrepreneurial Design Thinking The ED-School Sustainability with two further Projekts: Hobbypreneurship and Gründungsbüro Koblenz 29
http://www.gruendungsbuero-koblenz.de 30
Thank you for your Attention vanderbeek@uni-koblenz.de 31