Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre, University of Cantabria (Spain)

Abstract

This case study aims at presenting the business model and the results of the Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre (CISE), an international reference Centre dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and promoting the generation of start-ups. It provides a brief introduction into the Centre’s context and stresses CISE’s history and institutional set-up; this is followed by a presentation of its mission and vision on which its programmes and activities are based. It then highlights the Centre’s distinctive comprehensive entrepreneurship and multi-stakeholder approach and provides insight into CISE’s innovative training and support programmes. This case study concludes that it is possible to establish comprehensive strategies in support of an entrepreneurial culture through functional planning and coordination with own and other stakeholders’ initiatives.