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Network platforms for entrepreneurs

Bryo: Network and support platform for starting entrepreneurs in a group (VOKA)
The Birdhouse: accelerator program (partner of Belfius)
Blue Health Innovation Center: digital transformation in health care (with Microsoft)
Watt Factory: smart city accelerator in Ghent
Proef: incubator and co creative food lab in Schellebelle
SportUp: sport startup accelerator
Co.station: coworking place for tech startups, scale ups and companies (with BNP Paribas Fortis)
Incubaid: incubator in Lochristi with focus on cloud computing and datacenters
Ondersteuningspunt Entrepreneurs Ghent: service of city of Ghent
KMO Cockpit: online tax and legal advice
De Punt: growing platform for social and sustaibalble entrepreneurship in gentbrugge

Netwerk Ondernemen: guidance in search of co-founder or mentor
Sociale Innovatiefabriek: guidance and support in social innovation and social entrepreneurship
Start it @ KBC: accelerator

Breakfast with the rector - find out more about DO! and UGent TechTransfer during one of the sessions
UGent TechTransfer & IOF Info Session - information session about the valorisation possibilities and funding opportunities for your research
Research Founders event - inspirational event on how to start building your own entrepreneurial career path today

For students (and PhD's)

Elective course Dare to Venture* - from idea to business concept (12 weeks)
Elective course Dare to Start* - from business concept to development of your business (12 weeks)
Postgraduate innovative entrepreneurship for engineers - in-company innovation trajectory (internship) combined with a personal training program

For PhD's (and post-docs)

From PhD to SME* - leadership program in a team within a Flemish SME (1 year)
Plunge into your business plan* - summer school about entrepreneurship (4 days intensive training)
Blue Science & Technology Summer Training* - obtain insight into business opportunity development and the commercial realities faced by industry

For post-docs and ZAP

Health Entrepreneurship Track (with BHIC) - detection of entrepreneurial opportunities in your research within healthcare (6 times 3 hour workshop)
Research to Market* - discover the market potential of your research (4 day workshop online)

Expedition DO!* - pre-acceleratie program, from business idea to business plan (7 months with intensive coaching)
Venture Track - process for entrepreneurial researchers who want to set up a start-up, based on Ghent University research results.

VLAIO Baekeland Fellowship - a PhD in collaboration with the industry
VLAIO Postdoctoral Fellowship - focus on research with a strong technology transfer component; available to researchers who intend to commercialise their research findings through valorisation agreements with industry or through the creation of a spin-off company.

* Funded by Doctoral Schools

Start-up survival (Dutch) - Robin Geers
Disciplined Entrepreneurhsip - Bill Aulet
The smart entrepreneur - Bart Clarysse
Business model generation - Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
The lean startup - Eric Ries
Running Lean - Ash Maurya
The four steps to the epiphany - Steven Gary Blank
Selling in a new market space - Brian C. Burns, Tom U. Snyder
Valuation in life sciences - Bons Bogdan, Ralph Villiger
Inbound marketing - Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah, David Meerman Scott
High tech startup - John L. Nesheim
Go to market strategy - Lawrence Friedman
Blue ocean strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Only the paranoid survive - Andrew S. Grove
Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore
Pitcher Hacks - Venture Hacks
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist - Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, Dick Costolo