“Teaching” Entrepeneurship is an extremely special task. Wismar University has experiences in doing that since some years. A special project, called INFEX, is the entrepeneurship center and offers the following entrepeneurship support method:
- The process begins with Lectures and Seminars from experts and little and big bosses
- Self assessments fishes out those students or graduate students which have good chances with a spin off, either because their business idea is sustainable or because they have one or more of the “genes” of self employment.
- Then we have boost instruments: Mentors from the university (mostly professors or regional company owners) assist the product development. Assessments with risk capital bankers are showing the gaps in the ideas or the marketing of the ideas. Beginning from the seed phase about the formation phase of the company until the settlement phase there are different levels of supporting, including money benefits.
- And also after founding the Spin off the new self employers are not alone: a regional network offers different contacts and support if needed.
We want to diskuss in the round table:
- the needs of supporting spin offs
- the skills needed for Spin offs
- the influence of entrepeneurship in CDIO Standards
We want to introduce the Wismar System of Entrepeneurship Integration in Curriculum We hope to hear from other experiences And We hope to have finally some suggestions for the development of CDIO Standards and Syllabus The round table begins with an introductory talk (Norbert Gruenwald). Followed by a talk about the special Entrepeneurship Method in Wismar (Cindy Remer). The discussion showes some more examples. The final conclusion should be a recommendation for the CDIO Syllabus.
Conceive
Design
Implement
Operate
