Documentation
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
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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
Courses, fellowships and info sessions at Ghent University
Entrepreneurial calendar for Ghent University researchers
Info sessions
- 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
Coaching on entrepreneurship
- Permanent coaching about entrepreneurship via DO! (on appointment)
Informative courses
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
- TechTransfer Skills & Knowledge Transfer Skills*- transfer your academic research in a business
Idea generation: Detecting business opportunities
- 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)
Connecting: product-market fit
- Wingspro - Innovation bootcamps for engineers
Professionalization: preparing your business plan
- 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 fellowships for entrepreneurial researchers
- 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
Books
- 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