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Schools and academic programmes
• School of Business Engineering
& Entrepreneurship
• School of Governance & Law
• School of Health
• School of Applied Psychology
and Human Resources
Management
• School of Social Work
• School of Education
• School of Creativity & Technology
• School of Finance & Accounting
• Hospitality Business School
• School of Life Science, Engineering &
Design
• School of Marketing & International
Management
• School of Environmental Planning &
Building
12 Schools:
•125 Bachelor / Master programmes in Dutch.
•27 Bachelor / Master international programmes in English.
•Various Bachelor / Master programmes in German
•Non-degree programmes
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Learning from doing
• The results from today, are born in the past.
• Exploit the resources and talents available.
• Based on the industrial activities in the past, we
educate our population.
• Industry takes their responsibility for future
success.
• Government is intermediating with resources (€)
and policy .
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History of the region
1830 Initiation of Textile industry
- King Willem I
1833 First textile school
- 25 pupils on weaving
1861 Esteblishment regional facilities
- Sporting and leisure facilities (parks)
- Twensche Bank now: ABN-AMRO Bank
1918 Establishment Higher Textile education
- Later: Saxion University of Applied Sciences
1950’s Decline textile sector,
- loss of 40,000 jobs (80 %)1
1 Hammer, Hospers & Van der Sijde, 2005
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1961 Establishment research university
- 3rd Technical University in The Netherlands
1983 The Entrepreneurial University
- Vice Chancelor Harry van den Kroonenberg:
entrepreneurship as a career option, for academics
2006 Kennispark Twente
- Province, Cities, Universities
Today Innovation campus of national interest
- > 1,700 spin-offs
- 10% of Benelux Technology Fast 50
- 300 companies with 6,000 commercial
jobs on site
History of the region
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So…….
• Knowing from who we are, where we come from.
• Realising that education and public research
must serve the (their) industry.
• Aware that government is over structured.
• Given the fact that industry has limited free
resources.
• Universities and government are pointed to take
initiative to share their harvest with their
parents (Industry)
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How to act in puberty?
• Growing-up results in new roles.
• Not only ‘getting’, but ‘sharing’.
• Reciprocal exchange of resources (knowledge,
money, infrastructure).
• Both remain to their core business:
Education & research / ‘economic value creation’
New world created: Kennispark Twente
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Start: self reflection
2005
Self evaluation report on the contribution of
Higher Educational Institutes to regional
Development, initiated by the OECD/IMHE2 (p91):
Conclusion: “development themes for
Twente:
- Entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity
- Regional focal areas
- Knowledge infrastructure
- Strengthening of HEI’s”
2 Sijger, Hammer, ter Horst, Nieuwenhuis & Van der Sijde, 2005
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Activities
• Entrepreneurship: stimulate startups and
growing companies
• Innovation: stimulate innovation and knowledge
transfer
• Area: create an inspiring location for innovative
companies
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Targets
• Ecosystem and innovation campus of national
strategic interest
• Location and support for innovative companies
• Foundation:
– Stimulating entrepreneurship
– Goal: 10,000 new jobs for the region
• Founders: City of Enschede, Province of
Overijssel, University of Twente, Saxion
University and the Region of Twente
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Approach:
a complete ecosystem
Starting and growing firms
– Talent
– Idea
– Financing
– Awareness
– Incubation, etc.
Industrial links
– SME portals
– Research
Joint Ventures
– Building Clusters
Quality of the area
– 150 events per year in talent, knowledge,
risk capital, facilities
– Physical area development program
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Starters and Growers
1.Talent
2.Idea
3.Risk capital
– ~ 15 funds
Awareness
Incubators
• Work on individual cases
• 30 years of experience, culture
• Serial Entrepreneurship
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Innovative Enterprises
• SME Portal
• Research Joint Ventures
–Jointly run with industrial partners
–TPRC
–Boeing, ten Cate, Stork, …
–CMI
–Siemens, UMCG, …
–High Tech Factory
–20 nano companies
–Centre4Cloud
–Google, IBM, KPN, …
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Inspiring Environment
• Events/flow (150 per year)
– Talent
– Risk capital
– Knowledge
– Information
– Partners
– Facilities
• And Square Meters
– University Campus
– City Campus
to FC Twente stadium
– Incubator BTC
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Start-ups and
growers
Innovative
companies
Inspiring
Campus
Awareness, communication, positioning
Education, training, coaching Soft Landing
Business Development and IP
Financing networks Financing
SME portal to knowledge
R&D Open Innovation joint ventures
Events: interaction, flow of talent, knowledge, money, information
Area development
Equipment, labs, incubator services, entrepreneur/legal support
Our agenda
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Example: High Tech Factory
• Redevelopment of
former university
cleanroom
• Shared production
facility
• >20 micro- and
nanotechnology
companies
• Hightech Fund
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Example: Venturelab Twente
• 1 year business
development
programme
• For startups and
growing companies
• Hightech, high
ambitious people
• >200 participants in
3 years
• Focus on the team,
skills and knowledge
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Example: Powered by Twente
• 150 events per year
• Focus on
entrepreneurship and
innovation
• Flow of ideas, talent,
money
• Independent foundation
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Results
• Regional engine for innovation
• 330 companies on site
– 5,900 commercial jobs
• University of Twente and Saxion University:
– 9,000 and 24,000 students
– 4,000 scientists UT and 2,200 at Saxion
• 1750 spin-offs (40 -50 startups per year)
– 6,500 jobs
– Many students with a company (>100)
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Results
• 10% of the fastest growing tech companies in
the Benelux
– Winnaar 2010 Service2Media
• 50 M€ invested by private and public parties in
2010
• International benchmark
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Why this works:
• It is an ecosystem
• Top technology at the universities (nano, bio, ICT)
• 100 years of history with Industry – university
cooperation in the region
• A shared vision with the local governments and
industry (HTSM; High Tech Systems and Materials)
• The Kennispark gives a boost, it is not the goal
• Coach, conscience and supporter in the field