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Erasmus University Rotterdam has a long track record in entrepreneurship teaching and research, notably both in entrepreneurial management and also in the economics of entrepreneurship through its Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus School of Economics. The central hub for extra-curricular EE, training, and coaching offers is the new Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship within the university. Erasmus University has recently expanded its already well-established EE profile by adding corporate entrepreneurship to its agenda of master degree programmes in entrepreneurship and targeting small business owners and corporate intrapreneurs also in its entrepreneurship training offers within the entrepreneurship centre. This entrepreneurship portfolio and the organisation of corresponding education activities in cooperation with a community of entrepreneurs contribute to the valorisation of the university’s expertise in entrepreneurship through the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. This provides instructive insights and options for transfer to one’s own university in terms of further developing existing curricular entrepreneurship programmes as well as building self-sustainable entrepreneurship centres based on a resource-efficient set-up of premium education activities together with external entrepreneurs as educators.
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In Sect. 2 the degree programmes and one course in the entrepreneurship master will be discussed in detail.
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For details: HOPE Entrepreneurship (2011) http://hope-rdam.nl/
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Note though that public funds, e.g. from the EU, have been employed to finance the initial establishment of the centre’s operations in 2013 and 2014.
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The course descriptions in the table are based on the corresponding syllabus texts from the websites of Erasmus University’s master programmes and bachelor minors in entrepreneurship.
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The “New Business Development” master course has in fact also been part of the former entrepreneurship master programme in new business venturing. This is also why it has been selected as a course to be presented in detail based on an established course history.
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Bachelor studies in the area of management and economics are offered both in Dutch and English with the entrepreneurship minor electives usually being offered in English (since they are open to bachelor students from different faculties).
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This was discussed in the on-site interviews; see also http://www.rsm.nl/master/msc-programmes/msc-strategic-entrepreneurship/your-future-career/
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Master students at RSM may choose one elective from another master programme.
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Mentoring activities by experienced entrepreneurs and managing support with regard to student start-ups is explicitly organised in extra-curricular formats at ECE and is thus discussed in Sect. 3.
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Note that there is also a companion programme for established entrepreneurs aiming to grow and further develop their existing businesses called Get Business.
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Note that self-sustainability is not achieved yet (with current programme fees of 250 € for students and 500 € for others). However, it could be in the future when the programme is to be run independently by the pool of entrepreneurs from the ECE community without much input by ECE itself beyond academic quality assurance. Currently, Get Started may be considered as an important “feeder for the community”, as one interviewee coined it, providing new entrepreneurs to become members of the ECE network.
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Rather than pursuing a mission dedicated to businesses and corporations.
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RSM and ESE are the two largest schools respectively faculties of Erasmus University Rotterdam. While the two business and economics faculties with their entrepreneurship teaching and research staff have been instrumental in establishing the entrepreneurship centre in the first place, ECE intends to integrate more faculties of the university in the future.
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In addition, there is also an advisory board with members from business entrepreneurship and government.
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On a pro-bono basis or compensation market rates.
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Research for this case was conducted by Marc Grünhagen, Researcher and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal, Germany, on behalf of the study for supporting the entrepreneurial potential of higher education (sepHE). Sources and references used include desk research plus:
1.1 Interviews
Jochem Cuppen, member of ECE management team, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1 Sept 2014
Andreas Petridis, entrepreneurship master student and member of ECE staff team, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1 Sept 2014
Martin Luxemburg, member of ECE management team, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1 Sept 2014
Ferdinand Jaspers, entrepreneurship teacher, member of ECE staff team, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2 Sept 2014
Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen, member of ECE management team, ECE education co-ordinator, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2 Sept 2014
Sandra Cerkauskaite, ECE Students organisation, director of internal affairs, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3 Sept 2014
Allard de Muinck Keizer, ECE Students organisation, director of programs, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3 Sept 2014
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Grünhagen, M. (2017). Erasmus University Rotterdam: Building the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship and Advancing Corporate Entrepreneurship. In: Volkmann, C., Audretsch, D. (eds) Entrepreneurship Education at Universities. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55547-8_21
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