CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

provides an unique environment for catalysing both quality entrepreneurship research and new business growth development.

We offer programs and activities designed to stimulate the successful creation, development and growth of technology and knowledge intensive firms.

We carefully integrate these programs with its research and teaching to provide the best platform for theory and business practice.

Performance data up to 2004

• The ENP-programme: 450 (firms /projects /business units)

• The Development programme: 130 firms

• Management Groups: 195 firms

• Networking activities: 16.000 participants

• SMILES: 200 students/year

• Articles in journals and books: 36

• Books: 7

• Conference papers andworking papers: 95

CIE and SMIL– Entrepreneurship support and training

Year Organisation Activity1984 SMIL Seminars

1986 Development Programme

1988 Management Groups

1993 CIE Courses in Entrepreneurship

1994 ENP Programme

1996 KIN Internationalisation (EU programmes)

1998 MOVAK († 2003) SMILES

1999 External ENP Programmes

2000 Extended Networking Activities

2002 Chair in Entrepreneurship

The PIE Programmes at EKI

2003 International ENP Programme

Entrepreneurial thesis

How we work

Traditional business support

CIE and SMIL

CIE´s position in Linköping University

LinköpingUniversity

Department of Management and Economics

CIE

Success factors

• use an entrepreneurial (proactive) approach

• satisfy real needs

• create a core group

• have a clear focus

• build credibility

• combine structural knowledge and experience based knowledge

Networking activities

• Seminars

• Meeting SMIL

• Focus groups

• Social events

• SMIL Management leaders school

• www.smil.se

Development programme

• Group linking firms with general problems

Management Groups

• Specific issue linking firms with a common problem

SMIL Management Leaders School

Participants

• Senior entrepreneurs in the network who have an interest in encouraging younger colleagues' development and their own development

SMIL Management Leaders School

Purpose

• Get access to and commitment from a network of senior entrepreneurs to support knowledge intensive businesses

SMIL Management Leaders School

Management

• Lunch to lunch seminars with selected persons ("world class")

• Plenary sessions and group projects

• Participants are not paid for taking part in the School but the organiser pays for food and lodging at particular events

Research areas

• Early growth and Development processes of businesses

• Support of new ideas and firms

• Early stage financing

• Successful growth environments

• University – Industry Links

SMILES (SMIL Entrepreneurship School)

• Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Business (4 Courses)

• Entrepreneurial Business Development

• Financing of Entrepreneurial Business

• Entrepreneurial thesis

Entrepreneurship and New Business Development Programme (ENP)

• Business plan

• Workshops

• Supervision

• Mentoring

• Business Incubator

• Networks

Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship

• Schumpeter (1934): An entrepreneur has the ability to organise resources and create something new

• McClelland (1961): Entrepreneurs are active and achievement oriented

• Pinchot (1985): Intrapreneur is an entrepreneur within an already established organisation

• Stevenson (1997): An entrepreneur has the ability to develop business opportunities

1. Entrepreneurship and New Business Development Programme (ENP)

Programmes and activities

1.

2.

Later developmentEarly developmentStart

Growth anddevelopment

Time

2. Development Programme

3. Management Groups

4. Networking Activities

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2.

3.4.

CIE

Business support

Teaching Research

Business network Supportorganisations

Mjärdevi Sc.P., Pronova Sc. P., Univ. Holding, TBS, ALMI and other Growlink actors

NUTEK, VinnovaSwed. Saving Bank, EU, ...

The ENP Process

Supervision

ApplicationInterview

Acceptance

Kick-off The businessplatform

Business plan 1

PracticalEconomy/Financing

Marketing& Sales

GrowthProcess

Board etc

Final Presen-tation

Supervision Supervision

Leadership

Business plan 2 First Presen-tation

Marketing

4 - 6 monthsMentoring

A growth and development model

The ENP-programme and its dissemination in Sweden