SME Creation Facilitation Process at Universities
Much research on SMEs is aimed at researching SMEs after the fact that they have become SMEs.However all SMEs as well as larger companies start as an idea in the head or heads of one or many persons-the prospective entrepreneurs.The purpose of this paper is to investigate how SMEs can be created by transforming ideas into real companies.More specifically we will investigate if and how Universities can facilitate this process by running international cross-functional courses.Our hypothesis is that in order to create a SME three topics are of pivotal importance:Specialist Competence in the business area General management competence Financial capital During the fall of 2012 we will test the hypothesis by running a university course called international Marked Driven Engineering (iMDE) in cooperation between Lund University and Zhejiang University.Technology faculties from both Universities are involved-students as well as teachers.Their participation is crucial to cover specialist competence in the business area-technology-based enterprises.Management faculties from both Universities are involved-students as well as teachers.Their participation is crucial to cover general management competence in setting up,funding and running an enterprise.When it comes to financial capital our hypothesis is that for clever business ideas,financial capital can be raised in order to industrialize such a business idea.In the first trial run 8 business ideas will be generated and tested in the Hangzhou area during the period 120910-121019.Each of the 8 teams will consist of 8 persons-blended to cross-fertilize engineering-business,Chinese-Swedish and male-female participants.With the support of university teachers with the same blend the aim is to create embryos of SMEs.
Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Innovation Business plan Prototype Technology Management Lund University Zhejiang University
Carl-Henric Nilsson Charlotta Johansson JIN Jun YANG Qinmin LUO Shijian
Lund University, Sweden Zhejiang University, P.R.China
国际会议
杭州
英文
51-56
2012-10-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）