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Multitasking:Build your Start-Up while earning your Degree
How to support and recognize student-entrepreneurs in
higher education. The GHENT model
Steve Stevenssteve.stevens@ugent.be @SteveStevensUG
Manager & Business coachStudent Entrepreneurship CentreGhent University
Student-entrepreneurship @ Ghent University
11 faculties
41K students
100+ research groups230+ degrees
9K staff
Since 1817
71st ShangaiARWU ranking
TraditionalUniversity
+29 student clubs+4150 foreign students+3650 PhD students12% foreign employeesKorea Campus
Universitytraditions
TraditionalCity Centre
TraditionalIndustry
TraditionalCulture & City live
GHENT IS CHANGING
IT’S GETTING
NEW
ENTREPRENEURIALINNOVATIVE
Ghent startup contract5000 euro / new fulltime entrepreneur
250 startup contractsSince December 2008
STUDENT-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AS CATALYST
FOR CHANGE, INNOVATION &ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE CITY
Biggest student city of Belgium72 000 students
250 000 inhabitants156,18 km²
COOPERATIONON
CITY LEVEL
THE STRENGTH OF GHENT!
Mission• Stimulate entrepreneurial awareness and -behavior among
students and staff members
• Promote and facilitate student entrepreneurship
• Search, find and help student entrepreneurs in becoming more professional
• Link (alumni) student entrepreneurs with each other and academics/researchers
• Create an entrepreneurial ecosytem within the region of Flanders, starting in Ghent, with an open international orientation
SPECIAL STATUS FOR
STUDENT-ENTREPRENEURS
THE KEY TO SUCCESS!
Our team
Steve Stevens
Jolien Coenraets
Prof. dr. ir.Koen De
Bosschere
Approach Ghent University
Become an entrepreneur
Think about being an
entrepreneur
Start the entrepreneur
ial fireTechnopreneuria
l courses
Elective courses
Status student-entrepreneur
Intensive coaching
Business Management
Certificate
Coaching
Dissertation subject
Extracurricular activities
Business plan courses
Starterswallet
Hunchup.be
# student-entrepreneursGhent University
2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016
37
5155
68 70
Starterswallet
Bitcoinsto buyAdvize,
services and products
of regional experts
at market prizes
Partners
Small actionsBig Results
DUCO SICKINGHE (FORTINO) INVESTS 4,5 MILLION EUROS IN TEAMLEADER
Internal impact
• Elective courses offered in many faculties and degrees
• 1000+ students in one of the elective courses
• Collaboration to create new courses
• Entrepreneurship included in the competence model
• University buying from student-entrepreneurs
Societal impact
• Role models in press
• Promoting student entrepreneurship in general
• Influence in politics
• Law changes
FURTHER IMPACT
ON FLEMISH AND BELGIANPOLICY
®ULATIONS
Entrepreneurial students supported by politics
Business management certificate
Fiscal status forstudent- entrepreneurs
NEW PLANS
PhD - entrepreneur
Doctoral-student
Selfemployment
Start-up
Secundaryoccupation
Spinoff
Student-entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial student Entrepreneursh
ipidea