3. Impact Learn Fun Risk
Politics
Policy
Corporation
Consulting
Research
Science
Non-profit
4. Innovation Ecosystem
Construction Worker
Political Assistant Deputy Mayor Amsterdam
Policy maker EPA Amsterdam & Ministry
Cinema
ICT Trendwatcher
Knowledge Land Foundation
Prime Minister's Innovation Platform
Consultant
Professor Government Innovation
Climate-KIC
8. Entrepreneur(ial)
~ORIGIN early 19th cent. from French, from
entreprendre ‘undertake’
~one who organizes, manages, and assumes
the risks of a business or enterprise
-ial: ~not afraid to undertake a challenge
9. Entrepreneurship
The process by which individuals – either
on their own or inside organizations –
pursue opportunities without regard to the
resources they currently control
Stevenson, 1989
17. Step 1: Read
• In the Plex - Levy
• Business Model Generation - Ostenwalder
• Startup Owners Manual - Steve Blank
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Aulet
• Founders at Work - Livingston
• Raising Venture Capital for Serious
Entrepreneurs - Berkery
18. Great online resources
• ecorner.stanford.edu
- Stanford Technology Ventures Program podcast
(also video)
• www.ted.com
• www.steveblank.com
• paulgraham.com/articles.html
19. and more resources
• WIRED Y-combinator article
• techcrunch.com
• FastCompany.com
• WIRED.com
• www.businessmodelgeneration.com
31. What Climate-KIC can do
for you
• Interships at Climate-KIC startups
• Interships in China, India and USA
• Climate-KIC Summer School
• Do a startup & enter Acceleration Program