Mutual Benefits from Entrepreneurship of Non-business University Graduates for Academia and Founders
- There is a trend among universities to teach entrepreneurship and support startup initiatives. In this article, the state-ofthe- art in entrepreneurship higher education and university ecosystems of non-business schools is reviewed, and the example of the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria, and one of its startup show cases, Toolsense, is elaborated to understand critical success factors for non-business graduates as founders. The mutual benefits for universities and founders are discussed. In the case of Toolsense and the University of Applied Sciences, narrow band IoT as brought to the University by the startup. Implications on a universities’ innovation and portfolio management are highlighted. Concerning startups, the importance of growth financing after initial success is elaborated.
| Author: | Erich Markl, Maximilian LacknerORCiD, Judith Schmid, Thomas Faast |
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| Parent Title (English): | International Academic Journal of Entrepreneurship |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Completed Date: | 2019/11/02 |
| Responsibility for metadata: | Fachhochschule Technikum Wien |
| Release Date: | 2019/02/20 |
| GND Keyword: | Entrepreneurship; Incubator; Startup-Business |
| Pagenumber: | 8 |
| Publish on Website: | 1 |
| Open Access: | 1 |
| Link to Publication: | https://zenodo.org/record/3465520#.XZH3ElUzZaQ |
| Department: | Department Industrial Engineering |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft |
| Research Focus: | Sonstiges |
| Studienjahr: | 2018/2019 |
| Projects: | Import |
