EUROPEAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMER SCHOOL
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PROGRAMME
22-29 AUGUST 2015
Centre of Entrepreneurship, University of Groningen
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University of Groningen
NRU-Higher School of Economics
Prof.dr. Aard Groen
Prof.dr. Alexander Chepurenko
Professor of Entrepreneurship
and Valorisation,
Dean
of
Centre
of
Entrepreneurship
Professor of Economic Sociology
Dean of Sociology
Dr. Olga Belousova
Maria Gabelko, MSc
Assistant professor at Innovation
management and Strategy dep-t
and Centre of Entrepreneurship
Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of
Social Sciences
Head of Master level programs
University of Sheffield
Aniek Ouendag, MSc
Project manager at Centre of
Entrepreneurship
Prof.dr. Tim Vorley
Professor of Entrepreneurship at
Sheffield University Management
School
Maaike Wagenaar, MSc
Project manager at Centre of
Entrepreneurship till July 2015
Dr. Nick Williams
Guus Denteneer, BA
Senior Lecturer at Leeds University
Business School;
Visiting member at Sheffield University
Management School.
Assistant
at
Centre
Entrepreneurship
of
Michaela Barton
External Relations Officer for
Professional Accreditation and
International Summer Schools
Summer schools central office
University of Twente
Anita Veltmaat, Drs.
Policy Advisor/Project Manager
International Relations
Prof.dr. Aard Groen
Professor
of
Entrepreneurship
Innovative
Selma Bakker, MA
PR Officer / Office Manager
Summer Schools
Annemarie Ridder, MSc
Communication & Marketing at
NIKOS, Coordinator diversity in HR
department
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WELCOME NOTE
Prof. dr. Aard Groen
Dear Colleagues, Dear Students,
I am delighted to welcome you in Groningen
for the 6th Exploring Entrepreneurship
Summer School (EESS). The main goal of the
EESS is to stimulate more young students to
become researchers in the field of entrepreneurship. This field is a growing field, of by
now thousands of researchers around the
world. It is important, because entrepreneurship can be very significant for
development of societal wealth. However,
what entrepreneurship is, how entrepreneurs become successful, which conditions
in and around organizations can stimulate
entrepreneurial behaviour are a few of the
core questions for which we still have no
detailed, consistent and proven answers. To
find these answers, further research is
necessary.
Through the 2015 edition of the EESS we
look forward to working with you in
exploring the different faces and forms of
entrepreneurship theory, methods, empiri-
cal data and case material. Especially, we
invited you to study your local entrepreneurial ecosystems, and look forward to seeing
their differences and commonalities. We
hope to show you several faces of the
Groningen ecosystem, both by visiting
relevant actors of the ecosystem and by
literally showing you the faces of persons
who are active in this field. I expect rich
interactions with them and trust that this
will be a great learning experience. I am
confident that our professors from the
partner universities and guest speakers will
inspire vivid discussions.
Obviously, it is also an opportunity to show
Groningen as a vibrant university and city.
The University of Groningen is over 400
years old and is a top 100 university in the
world. Its focus points include health, energy
and sustainability. Groningen as a city is the
uncrowned capital of Northern Netherlands.
It is very international and has lively art,
music, and ICT scenes. In the Noorderzon
festival you will see much of that coming by.
Groningen is a student city, with about
50.000 students living there on a total of
210.000 people. You can imagine it is a
"young" city, and, probably, because of this
it is also a city that never sleeps, with pubs,
restaurants and other recreation and culture
facilities open all night long. I am sure you
will have good opportunity to explore that
too (however, the work starts every morning
early).
Our goal over the coming days is to help you
learn about the knowledge we already have,
identify research the field needs, and the
practical recommendations we can make for
entrepreneurs, firms, entrepreneurship
supporters and policy makers.
We are grateful for the support of all of our
partners. Also for the support of this event
from UGCE and Central Summer School
Organization of the University of Groningen.
My Organizing Team and I hope that you will
experience a stimulating week ahead in the
beautiful surroundings of Groningen.
Prof.dr. Aard Groen
Organising Team: Olga, Aniek, Guus and
Maaike.
SUMMER SCHOOL
ORIGINS
The EESS is a collaborative effort with
National Research University - Higher
School of Economics (Russia), University
of Sheffield (United Kingdom), and
University of Twente (The Netherlands).
The idea to establish a platform to attract
and encourage students from different
universities, areas of study and levels of
education to get inspired by entrepreneurship research was first realized as an
all-Russian summer school (2009-2010)
supported by the Lab on entrepreneurship research of the Higher School of
Economics (HSE).
The Lab was established in 2006 with the
core goal to participate in the Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) being a
part of the Russian GEM team and
engaging both undergraduate and
graduate students in different forms of
research oriented education activities
related with cross-country entrepreneurship research.
In 2011 NIKOS (Netherlands Institute of
Knowledge-Intensive Entreprenership) of
the University of Twente was seeking for
more partners to help support innovation
and entrepreneurship in Russian
universities. NIKOS integrates research,
education and active business &
entrepreneurship support. They became
a partner to transform the EESS-2011
into a bilateral one, based on interest of
University of Twente to internationalize
students' extracurricular experience.
University of Twente has a strong
tradition of being an entrepreneurial university in which societal impact via entrepreneurship is seen as very important.
Since 2012 the EESS began to transform
into a European school. The Technical
University in Berlin (Germany) joined the
cooperation in 2012. In 2013 the
Sheffield University (UK) and its
Thessaloniki (Greece) campus joined,
followed by the University of Groningen
(NL) in 2014.
The partner universities all have
established a full-fledged entrepreneurship and innovation infrastructure, including courses, business-incubators, and
other units to enable transfer of knowhow into entrepreneurial spin-offs.
However, the organization around these
units is diverse. While similarity shapes
preconditions for a fruitful cooperation,
diversity enables widening of experience
of students participating in the EESS,
benefiting the students and the staff of
the summer school.
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This intensive 1-week long summer school aims to bring together students from
several countries, cultural backgrounds, educational levels (BSc, Msc, PhD) and study
Questions we ask in EESS’15
programmes to work in interdisciplinary multilevel groups. It is research oriented: we
study contemporary entrepreneurship research, theories, methods and results of
research, while focussing on some of the central research questions of
entrepreneurship research.
▪ What is the role of individual
characteristics?
▪ Can entrepreneurship be learned?
▪ To what extent are different forms
During the week, we will engage in highly interactive sessions exploring
entrepreneurship research and applying them to practical cases and group projects,
which are aimed at doing research to develop an entrepreneurial solution to a
practical problem, using a theoretically and methodologically solid approach. In
like high tech, international,
social, or corporate
entrepreneurship comparable?
addition to the lectures and project, we will have ample opportunity to share and
▪ How is entrepreneurship different
draw on each other’s culturally specific experience and knowledge. The programme
in several fields such as energy,
will culminate in a final presentation by each group.
health, water, manufacturing
industry, information technology,
This summer school also shows typical social-cultural and economic aspects of the
host country and region. In the
North of the Netherlands significant
health, energy, water, and ICT
sectors are important. Furthermore,
social entrepreneurship plays a
growing
role.
Recently,
mild
earthquakes due to gas production
have been disturbing social and
economic aspects in the NorthEastern part of the province of
psychology, languages?
▪ How to organize entrepreneurship
in start ups, SME’s and larger
corporate entrepreneurial
companies?
▪ How does entrepreneurship differ
on national levels?
▪ What is the role of institutions for
entrepreneurship?
▪ Which methods of research are
Groningen. Attempts are being made to revive this region by (social)
used in entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship support and policy.
research?
▪ How to do process research of
During some excursions you will visit interesting entrepreneurship support
institutions, such as VentureLab North, EnTranCe, SBGG and HANN, as well as have
entrepreneurship?
keynotes from policy makers.
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PROGRAMME
EESS’15
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Whole day
Arrivals to dorms and hotels
20:00-22:00
Welcome reception
Event to meet Summer School participants, get summer
school folders etc. Snacks & drinks provided
VentureLab North
(VLN)
Herestraat, 106
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Welcome: Introduction of the School
VLN
by Aard Groen and Alexander Chepurenko
Standing buffet
VLN
Poster presentations by country teams
Introduction to the the topics of the week and instructions
VLN
for final presentations
Test of the reading material
VLN
Meeting point at
Groningen city tour by the Central Summer School Office
Academy building
Broerstraat, 5
USVA
Drinks by Central Summer School Office
Munnekeholm,10
Ni-Hao
Dinner
Ged. Kattendiep, 122
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 14:15
15:00
c.a. 17:00
c.a. 19:00
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9:00 - 9:45
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10:00 - 11:15
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11:30 - 12:30
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12:30 - 13:30
13:30-15:15
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15:30-16:30
16:30 - 18:00
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Opening keynote: future of entrepreneurship research
Prof. dr. Alexander Chepurenko, HSE
VLN
Prof. dr. Aard Groen, University of Twente / University of
Groningen
Entrepreneurship: the macro view
VLN
Lecturer: Alexander Chepurenko
Keynote speech: Entrepreneurship in Biobased economy
VLN
Speaker: Prof.dr. Gert-Jan Euverink
Lunch
VLN
Methods of analysing entrepreneurship at the macro level.
Empirical research on early entrepreneurship: GEM and
VLN
PSED design and evidence
Lecturer: Alexander Chepurenko
Travel to the EnTranCe
Bus pick up
Visit to the EnTranCe: Energy Transition Center
Zernike Sciencepark,
Keynote: EnTranCe and the future of energy
Zernikelaan 17
Speaker: Jeroen van den Berg, director EnTranCe
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T������, 25 A�����, 2015
9:00 - 10:00
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10:00 -11:00
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11:15-12:15
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12:30-13:30
13:30-15:00
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15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00
M/
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17:00 ->
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Social Entrepreneurship
Lecturer: Olga Belousova
Social entrepreneurship
Coach: Olga Belousova
Guest talk:
Earthquakes and their impact in the Northern Netherlands
Stef van der Ziel, entrepreneur of „Bevingsmeter“
Lunch
Keynote: Sustainable entrepreneurship
Kumar Nair, Thapar University
Coffee break
Methods: Field research, Interview & observation
Coach: Olga Belousova / ALL TEACHERS IN?
Interviewing local entrepreneurs (at Noorderzon) about the
topics of the presentations
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W��������, 26 A�����, 2015
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:30
14:00 – 16:00
Recap about the assignment: achievements & lessons
M learned (coffee provided J )
Facilitators : all teachers
Social systems perspective – Competencies approach
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Lecturer: Aard Groen
How can Social systems theory inform your choices?
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Coach: Aard Groen
Lunch
Keynote: Healthy Ageing
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Speaker: Daan Bultje, Director HANNN
Theory/Debate: Family entrepreneurship
L/W Facilitators: Mariana Estrada Robles, Nick Williams, Tim
Vorley
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break & Walk to the UMCG
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VLN/UMCG
16:30 – 17:30
Keynote: Entrepreneurship in Healthcare
KN Speaker: Dr. Jan Sikkema, Director Groningen Business
Generator (SBGG)
UMCG,
Hanzeplein, 1
17:30 – 18:30
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UMCG,
Hanzeplein, 1
Visit to the UMCG hospital
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9:00-10:30
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10:30-10:45
10:45-12:15
12:15-13:30
13.30-14:30
14:30-14:45
14:45-16:30
VLN
Coffee break
VLN
Debate: Public Policy: Can and should entrepreneurship
D substitute public policy?’
Facilitators: Nick Williams, Tim Vorley
Lunch
Keynote: Public policy and support for entrepreneurship in
Groningen
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Speaker: Joost van Keulen, alderman for the city of
Groningen
Break
Research paper: Markets and institutional swamps:
RP tensions confronting entrepreneurs in developing countries
Speaker: Dr. Clemens Lutz, University of Groningen
16:30 – 16:45
16:45 – 18:00
Theory: Individuals and institutions
Lecturers: Nick Williams, Tim Vorley,
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Coffee break
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Methods: Use of longitudinal monitoring for
entrepreneurship research. Case of VentureLab Diaries.
Lecturer: Aard Groen
VLN
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9:00-12:30
Last preparations for the presentations
Location of choice
12:30-13:30
Lunch
VLN
13:30-17:00
Students’ mixed presentations and discussions
VLN
17:00-18:00
18.00-22.30
23:00-23:20
Jury decides over results. Preparing certificates and awards
VLN
to participants .
Final gala reception
Rest. Bastille
Awarding participants and winners
Big Firework for Bommen Berend
Praediniussingel
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S�������, 29 A�����, 2015
Whole day
Departures from dorms and hotels
OR Cultural program
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EESS’15
Key locations _
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VENUES
in Groningen
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Prof. Dr. Aard Groen
Aard Groen holds a double position: he is a professor of Innovative
Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente, and leads since 2001 NIKOS,
the Netherlands Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship. He is
also since 2012 professor of Entrepreneurship and Valorisation at the
University of Groningen, and is dean of entrepreneurship at the University
of Groningen Centre of Entrepreneurship. Groen leads the development of
Venturelab International, started as Venturelab Twente and now also as
Venturelab North (VLN) in Groningen, where VLN is focusing on a.o. energy
and health businesses.
Groen teaches on innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing and business
development, and researches processes of entrepreneurship in several
settings. In Venturelabs we not only support entrepreneurial processes, but
also develop new forms of research of entrepreneurial processes by means
of a systematic quality/monitor system. Other settings are social-economic
deprived areas for social entrepreneurship as well in rural areas in NorthEastern Netherlands, in cities in such as Groningen and Enschede, and
international in a.o. India & Columbia. Finally, also in existing firms we do
engaged research on corporate entrepreneurship, for example for process
industries in North-Eastern Netherlands, but also in several international settings, such as Russia, China, India, and Mexico.
Aard Groen has published several chapters in books and in journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Product
Innovation Management, Technovation, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Chepurenko
Prof.dr. Alexander Chepurenko is Dean of Sociology, Faculty of Social
Sciences at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics
(HSE) in Moscow. He also currently holds such positions as Professor of
Economic Sociology at HSE, Head of a research unit at the Institute of
Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science, and President of the National
Institute for Strategic Investigations of Entrepreneurship Problems, Moscow.
His research interests include institutional analysis of private economy in
Russia (especially of small business and entrepreneurship), comparative
research of transition economies, empirical economic sociology, social
market economy in Germany and its importance for transforming societies.
Prof. Chepurenko strives for maintaining high professional standard in his
field and serves on boards of professional associations. Since 2007 he holds
the position of a Vice-President of the Community of Professional
Sociologists of Russia. Till recently he has also served as Vice-President of
the Russian Sociologic Society and Vice-President of the European Council
for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
For years, prof. Chepurenko has been stimulating international
collaboration between Russia and EU by leading diverse research teams,
working on the Russian report for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor studies, and providing opportunities for
international studies for his students. His publications include more than 180 works in Russian and 40 publications in
foreign languages (in English and German).
For his devotion to and achievements in research, education and dissemination of knowledge about entrepreneurship, in
2012 prof. Chepurenko has been awarded a title of a “Honored worker of science and technology of the Russian
Federation” by the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation.
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Prof. Dr. Tim Vorley
Tim is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Sheffield University Management School and member of the Centre for Regional Economic and
Enterprise Development (CREED). He is currently on second-ment
with InnovateUK working to support the development of innovation
policy and programmes to support the competitiveness of
businesses in the UK, and has previously been a visiting researcher at
the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in Whitehall.
Tim’s research interests are in the field of entrepreneurship and
economic development, employing an institutional approach to
examining the resilience and competitiveness of entrepreneurs. Over
the last 10 years the empirical focus of Tim’s research has included
Europe and Asia.
Tim teaches on Corporate Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship and
Public Policy, and Entrepreneurial Economies, and he is also involved
in coordinating a number of EU project on entrepreneurship and
enterprise funded under Framework Programme 7 and Horizon 2020.
Dr. Clemens Lutz
Clemens is an Associate Professor in Small Business Economics at the
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, the
Netherlands. His research interest concerns small business and
smallholders in developing countries.
His research focuses on insights from the literature on Industrial
Organization and Strategic Management and has been published in
the Journal of Development Economics, Regional Science, the Journal
of African Economies, the Journal of Development Studies, the
International Marketing Review, the International Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Small Business and Small Business Economics,
among others.
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Dr. Nick Williams
Nick is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds University Business School and
visiting member of the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise
Development (CREED) at Sheffield University Management School. He
is actively engaged with policy and practice though his
entrepreneurship research. Nick is also the current director of the
MBA and MSc in Entrepreneurship and Management.
Nick ‘s primary research interest is in entrepreneurship, specialising in
local economic development and economic resilience. He has also
worked on a number of flagship projects funded by Local Enterprise
Parnerships examining entrepreneurship and economic growth, and
the role of export-led growth in regional economies.
As well as being the MBA director, Nick teaches modules on European
Business, Entrepreneurial Ecoonomies, Entrepreneurial Venture
Creation, and Managing Regional and Local Economies. Nich has also
led EU Tempus projects supporting the development of
Entrepreneurial Labs in the Balkans.
Dr. Olga Belousova
Olga is an Assistant professor at the University of Groningen. Her
research interests include new venture creation processes in both
independent and corporate contexts. She is involved in teaching
courses about entrepreneurship and new venture creation for
business, technical and medicine students.
Olga is also an active contributor to the work of the University of
Groningen Centre for Entrepreneurship (UGCE) which is focused on
the applied research and education on entrepreneurship as well as on
the commercialization of the university’s scientific and technical
knowledge. At the UGCE, Olga is currently co-developing diverse
courses on entrepreneurship and is participating in the establishment
of VentureLab Northern Netherlands.
Olga earned her PhD at the Université Catholique de Louvain
(Belgium). Olga has an MSc degree in entrepreneurship and
marketing from Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) and an MSc
degree in strategic management from HSE in Moscow (Russia).
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Mariana Estrada-Robles
Mariana is a Doctoral Researcher at Sheffield University Management
School funded by the National Council of Science and Technology
from Mexico. Her research focuses on the influence of family
dynamics and the interaction between members in entrepreneurial
families. Assuming an institutional perspective she examines how
institutions, informality and culture shape entrepreneurial practice.
Mariana teaches at Sheffield University Management School, and
previously worked for 6 years in EGADE Business School for Latin
America developing postgraduate programmes in countries like Peru,
Ecuador, Panama and Colombia. She has also worked as teaching
assistant for entrepreneurship courses involving academic trips to
New York, New Haven (Yale School of Management ), Houston (Texas
A&M) in the United States; and Madrid, Spain (BBVA Group Training
Centre). She is still an active contributor to EGADE Business School
assessing start-up projects from MBA students. Prior to academia, she worked for a multinational food company.
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Gert-Jan Euverink
Gerrit Jan Willem Euverink (1966) finished his PhD in microbiology/
biochemistry in 1995 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
From October 1994 untill May 1998 he was a post-doctoral researcher
at the Dutch Institute for Carbohydrate research (NIKO-TNO) were he
discovered a new enzymatic derivative of starch. In 1998 he started
BioExplore, a high-throughput screening laboratory in the
department of Microbial Physiology at the University of Groningen.
Robot technology was applied for the screening of new biocatalysts.
In 2004 he started working as a themecoordinator at Wetsus, Centre
for sustainable Water Technology in Leeuwarden. In 2006 he became
deputy scientific director and program director in 2008. The
multidisciplinary research program is carried out in cooperation with
national and european universities and over 90 companies.
From November 2011 he was appointed as full professor at the
University of Groningen and became director of BioBrug, a project to
stimulate collaborations between the university and SME. His
research is on screening fermentation conditions using an array of 3D-printed bio-microreactors. Research and
business in the Biobased Economy plays a major role throughout his carreer.
Jeroen van den Berg
Jeroen van den Berg (1980) started at EnTranCe in 2012. EnTranCe is
the hotspot of applied sciences for businesses and innovations. It has
the facilities, technologies and the best possible network to develop
plans into the energy products and services the energy market
demands.
He combines his management function at EnTranCe with two
boardmemberships at Alfa College Groningen and Hogeschool of
Arnhem and Nijmegen as well as two positions at the
Hanzehogeschool, University of Applied Sciences at the Centre of
Expertise-Energy and the Centre Applied Research and Innovation
Energy. Before moving to Groningen, Jeroen held several positions in
the energy sector in the western part of the Netherlands.
If you are looking for a different kind of energy boost, Jeroen can help
you with a praline and chocolate making workshop as wel!
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Stef van der Ziel
Stef van der Ziel (1973) got involved with streaming media and CDN
(Content Delivery Network) at the age of 21 in 1994 and was one of
the first pioneers in Webcasting. Stef is owner and founder of JetStream. The company founded in 2002 is specialized in streaming
Content Delivery Network software, strategy and operation. In 2004
he also founded the CDN service StreamZilla.com, Europe's leading
streaming media CDN.
Stef van der Ziel is also closely involved with the smartphone app
'Bevingmeter', run by the company Schuddema. The Bevingmeter app
helps people measure earthquakes collectively and independently
helps them find companies to help them with claims, repairs and
improving their homes. This is of particular interest in the Northern
Netherlands as natural gas extraction causes earthquakes in this part
of the country.
Prof. Dr. Padmakumar (Kumar) Nair
Dr. Padmakumar Nair is Director of the LM Thapar School of
Management (LMTSOM) run by Thapar University.
An eminent researcher and management consultant of international
repute, Dr. Nair, who has to his credit more than 50 research papers
in international journals and more than 1,500 citations in academic
journals, has worked both in academia and industry.
He has an experience of over 25 years in diverse industries, including
oil and gas (in Amsterdam), education (in Denmark, the US, Japan, the
Netherlands, China), consultancy (in Price Waterhouse Coopers, Japan,
the UK and the US) and advanced research and development (in the
Netherlands, Japan and the US). He holds a US and a world patent in
the area of converting natural gas into useful petrochemicals.
Dr. Nair specialises in organisational leadership, entrepreneurship and
nanotechnology and is a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge
(the UK), University of Twente (the Netherlands), Chonnam National University (South Korea) and Wuhan
University (China).
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Daan Bultje
Daan Bultje (1981) started february 1st 2014 as director of HANNN
and has spent the five years before that scouting, developing and
supporting Healthy Ageing initiatives within the University Medical
Center Groningen and in the Northern Netherlands. He was member
of the board of the Healthy Ageing Campus Netherlands and
participated for the UMCG in the Advancing Care Coordination &
TeleHealth (ACT) Deployment Programme.
Before the UMCG, Daan worked for the Northern-Netherlands branch
of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers. He also
was member of the Provincial Council of Groningen for eight years
(2003-2011).
Dr. Jan Sikkema
Jan Sikkema (1964) has been director of SBGG, the Technology
Transfer Office of University of Groningen and University Medical
Center Groningen since 2012 alongside being director for the Centre
for Development and Innovation since 2011. Furthermore he has been
active as chairman of the Consortium for Valorization and
Entrepreneurship Groningen and director of the Healthy Ageing
Campus Netherlands, both from 2012.
After obtaining a Msc of Biology from the University of Groningen and
a PhD Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Industrial Microbiology
from Wageningen University, Jan worked for Royal Friesland Foods
(1996-2007) and Snowbrand Milk Product (1992-1996).
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Joost van Keulen
Joost van Keulen (1979) became alderman for the city of Groningen in
November 2012, where his portfolio consists of Transport and Traffic,
Economic Affairs, Internationalisation, Inner-City and Culture Change.
Before his current position as alderman, van Keulen was already
involved in politics, with different positions at the province and city
council; a policy staff member for the VVD party in Groningen
Provincial council from 2003 until 2007 and a member of the
Groningen City Council from 2007 until 2012. Alongside being active
in politics Joost van Keulen also held several positions in the private
industry; management consultant, communications consultant,
coordinator/copywriter, communications manager and senior
communications advisor.
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The topics of the
Summer school
1. Universities: how can they support entrepreneurial
students? How can they play a role for non-student
entrepreneurs?
2. Can social entrepreneurship ‘displace’ governments
when solving social issues? Should
governments
step
out
of
entrepreneurial ecosystems?
3. What is the role of individual
characteristics? Can entrepreneurial
personality be developed? Can
entrepreneurship be learned? What
are the most effective mechanisms?
4. To what extent are different forms like high tech vs.
services, "normal" vs social, or nascent (small size) vs
corporate entrepreneur-ship comparable? What are
the
implications
for
the
ecosystems?
5. How is entrepreneurship different in
several fields such as energy, health,
water, manufacturing industry,
information technology, psychology,
languages? Should there be specific
theories, or do general theories (RBV,
e.g.) apply?
6. How does entrepreneurship differ on national levels?
Are lessons learned from one
country applicable to another? If yes,
in what areas and why?
7. What is the role of institutions
and/or
large
business
in
entrepreneurial ecosystems? How
can we support entrepreneurs in
deprived regions? What are the most
relevant instruments, why?
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Team 1: Universities & Entrepreneurship
Universities: how can they support entrepreneurial students?
How can they play a role for non-student entrepreneurs?
Andres Camargo
Thomas Collinson
Sofiko Dagarguliya
University of Twente, 1st year
PhD student in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
University of Sheffield, 1st year
Bachelor student in Business
management
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 3rd
year Bachelor student in
Sociology
Hubert Johannes Eberle
James Alexander Jago
Friedrich-Alexander Universität
Erlangen, 1st year Master
student in Mechanical
Engineering
University of Sheffield, 3rd year
Bachelor student in Business
management
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Team 2: Government vs. Entrepreneurship
Can social entrepreneurship 'displace' governments when solving social
issues? Should governments step out of entrepreneurial ecosystems?
Uju Evans Akpunonu
Rosa Citra Aprilia
Kevin Andrew Limzon
Chukwuemeka Odimegwu
Ojukwu University, PhD student
and lecturer
University of Twente, Master
student in Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield, Master
student in Entrepreneurship
and Management
Ana-Maria Tecuci
Jibek Turgunbekova
Stockholm School of Economics
in Riga, 2nd year Bachelor
student in Economics &
Business Administrationn
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 1st
year Bachelor student in
Management
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Team 3: Nature vs. Nurture
What is the role of individual characteristics? Can entrepreneurial
personality be developed? Can entrepreneurship be learned? What are
the most effective mechanisms?
Harry Dawes Carlisle
Anita Eisterlehner
Karminder Ghuman
University of Sheffield, 1st year
Bachelor student in Accountancy and Financial Management
Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Master student in Management
Thapar University, starting a
PhD in Entrepreneurship
John Muchira
Adam Nordin
Olga Storozheva
Florida State University, 2ⁿ�
year PhD student in International Comparative Education
University of Sheffield, Master
student of Business
Administration
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 3��
year Bachelor student in
Sociology
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Team 4: Faces of Entrepreneurship
To what extent are different forms like high tech vs. services, "normal" vs
social, or nascent (small size) vs corporate entrepreneur-ship comparable?
What are the implications for the ecosystems?
Faisal Engler
Tejas Hargudkar
Gerjan Lennips
Qatar University, 1�� year
Bachelor student in Business
Cambridge University, Master
of Philosophy. Starting PhD in
Corporate entrepreneurship
University of Twente, 3�� year
bachelor student in International Business Administration
Marina Spirina
Shashika Warnakulasuriyage
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 1st
year Master student
University of Sheffield, 2ⁿ� year
Bachelor student in Business
Management
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Team 5: Domains of Entrepreneurship
How is entrepreneurship different in several fields such as energy, health, water,
manufacturing industry, information technology, psychology, languages? Should
there be specific theories, or do general theories (RBV, e.g.) apply?
Ashwin Narayanamurthy
Anastasiia Pastukhova
Elizaveta Vasilenko
University of Sheffield, Master
student
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2ⁿ�
year Bachelor student in Public
administration
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 3rd
year Bachelor student
Paolo Sangregorio
Siti Shuhidah Zainal Rashid
University of Bergamo, 2ⁿ� year
PhD student in Engineering and
Applied Sciences
University of Sheffield, Master
student in Business
Administration
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Team 6: Entrepreneurship around the world
How does entrepreneurship differ on national levels? Are lessons learned
from one country applicable to another? If yes, in what areas and why?
Julia Christin Beier
Zusej Dayoiri Fernandez Garcia
Andrey Kucherov
Otto-Friedrich University of
Bamberg, 1�� year Master student in Business Administration
University of Sheffield, Master
student in Entrepreneurship
and Management
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 3��
year Bachelor student in Sociology
Makoto Okada
Viktoriia Volkova
Wendy Lum
University of Sheffield, 1�� year
Master student in Business
Administration
National Research University Higher School of Economics,
2nd year Bachelor student in
University of Groningen, Pre
Msc BA SIM
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Team 7: Institutions & Entrepreneurship
What is the role of institutions and/or large business in entrepreneurial
ecosystems? How can we support entrepreneurs in deprived regions?
Acniah Damayanti
Alexander Kalita
Tiffany Masbou
University of Twente, Master
student in Communication
Studies
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 3��
year Bachelor student in
Sociology
University of Sheffield, Master
student in Entrepreneurship
Daria Reutovich
Neil Sheridan
Georgina Stefania Wilkie
Hanze University of Applied
Sciences, Master student in
International Business and
Manangement
Michigan State University, 1st
year PhD student
University of Sheffield, 1�� year
bachelor student in Business
Management
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UGCE
A few words about who we are
UGCE stands for the University of
Groningen Centre of Entrepreneurship. It is
lead by prof. dr. Aard Groen. It was created
to use the solid base in the academic area
of innovation and entrepreneurship to
respond to a large demand of economic
development in North-East Netherlands
and the international networks connected
to these areas. It is active on important
themes such as valorizing university
knowledge for energy, health, renewal of
industry, and sustainability. It uses a.o.
information-,
sensorand
water
technologies, as well as knowedge from
social, behavioral, and language sciences.
The capabilities of UGCE are organized in
three connected pillars of research,
education and business support. For this
purpose, within the body of UGCE we have
developed three structurally separate, but
intertwined units:
▪ Applied Research Center,
▪ Entrepreneurship College, and
▪ Business support.
Our research, education and business
development support activities are based
on the "engaged scholarship" philosophy
(Van de Ven, 2008), meaning a close
connection between excellent research
and teaching to real life problems. UGCE
was deliberately organized within the
university, to ensure a close connection
between the practical support we offer for
business development and research and
education. The combination of researchbased consultancy, academically sound
business development support and
teaching for regular students and executive
programs is a strength of UGCE model.
We effectively conduct research on
innovative entrepreneurship in start-ups,
SME's and large firms, valorisation in
regional ecosystems of support, and
international
business
development
relations.
▪ Technology based entrepreneurship (fac.
of Natural sciences and Mathematics)
PhD level (GGS)
▪ Graduate
program
Innovative
Entrepreneurship (in development)
▪ Entrepreneurship and Valorization for
Medical Sciences
Executive level:
▪ Trainings on innovative entrepreneurship & business development
▪ Certificate programmes in Venturelab
North
▪ Training for large companies on
Corporate entrepreneurship
Extracurricular (all levels):
▪ Evening course.
Starting from the premise that every
student should have some basic knowledge
on entrepreneurship, UGCE caters UGCE contributes to the valorization of the
entrepreneurship education for University university knowledge by developing new
of Groningen and beyond.
methods of enhancing business competencies. Our knowledge supports business
Bachelor level:
quality of existing companies and start-ups,
▪ General
Business
Administration and eventually contributes to the econoprogramme
mic development of firms and regions. Our
▪ Minor in Entrepreneurship (all schools)
instruments for that include student con▪ Minor “Innovation and Entrepreneur- sultancy projects, Venturelab, competenship” (fac. of Economics and Business)
cies for innovation instruments, and
diverse forms of trainings.
MSc level:
▪ Small Business & Entrepreneurship Two related projects are currently
underway: VentureLab Student and
programme
VentureLab North.
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CONTACT
Centre of Entrepreneurship
Nettelbosje, 2
9747AE Groningen
Netherlands
Phone: +31 6 2497 0168
Web: http://rug.nl/ugce
E-Mail: [email protected]
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