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Community for Innovation driven Entrepreneurship

Tech transfer @ KU Leuven

> 120 spinoff companies

> 5000 people employed

> 5 spinoffs each year

What role should universities play?

The University as an Incubator

Scale

Launch

Prototype

Creativity

Entrepreneurship courses

InterdisciplinarityTeamwork

Inspiration NetworkingEntr

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We want to cultivate an

entrepreneurial mindset in

all students and faculty

Our Goal

Researchers & PhD students

Students

Alumni & entrepreneurs

Teachers & professors

A university-wide community topromote, stimulate and supportentrepreneurship with and by itsmembers

KICK

PiP

Academy

Skills

Internships

Research

Entrepreneurship

Coaching

Startup Support

Community

Partnerships

Events

Alumni

Spaces

Funding

Community Initiatives

KICK

PiP

Academy

Skills

Internships

Research

Entrepreneurship

Coaching

Startup Support

Community

Partnerships

Events

Alumni

Spaces

Funding

Community Initiatives

KICK

Community Initiatives

TechStart

Start-ups provide a technologicalconsultancy project

Solved by a group of students

Supervised by academic researchers & PhD students

Community Initiatives

TechStart

Start-ups provide a technologicalconsultancy project

Solved by a group of students

Supervised by academic researchers & PhD students

KICKPiP

Academy

Skills

Internships

Research

Entrepreneurship

Coaching

Community

Partnerships

Events

Alumni

Spaces

Funding

Community initiatieven

Community Initiatives

Startup Support

€34,195,000 Raised

170 Lcie Teams

136 Jobs Created

KICK Teams

Interactive online R and Python courses on topics in datascience, statistics, and machine learning.

Jonathan Cornelissen: Phd in statisticsMartijn Theuwissen: Ma in Applied EconomicsDieter De Mesmaeker: Ma engineering technology

KICK Teams: DataCamp

WHAT?

FOUNDED IN 2013

3,500,000+ aspiring data scientists trained€27M capital raised

FACTS & FIGURES

>90 employeesOffices in Leuven, London & New York

NOW

Installations to generate electricity from rivers with low drop

Geert Slachmuylders: Ma engineering technologyJasper Verreydt: Ma applied economics

KICK Teams: Turbulent

WHAT?

FOUNDED IN 2014

First operational unit in Castle in Tielt-WingeCandidate for MIT innovators under 35 in 2016

FACTS & FIGURES

6 employeesStartup in Chile

NOW

KICK

Academy

Skills

Internships

Research

Entrepreneurship

Coaching

Startup Support

Community

Partnerships

Events

Alumni

Spaces

Funding

Community initiatieven

Community Initiatives

PiP

ProductInnovationProject

Business, Engineering, Bio-engineering, Law, Sciences, Medicine, Arts, …

PiP

Product innovation Project

Interdisciplinary team of ±9 students

Solve a challenge provided by a company

Create a product and a business case in 1 academic year

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Team

10

3

1

2015-2016

Develop a solution for

people with tremor

1

Students

Faculties

Challenge

9

6

When Music Meets Science

Develop a product that uses music to

break through social isolation and

stimulates social interaction and

communication, where a mix of therapy

and technology should be used.

Students

Faculties

When Music Meets Science

An assistive app which helps children with ASD to

communicate better by drawing and creating music

9

5

When Chemistry Meets Computer Science

Use holographic computing to

improve business processes in the

chemical industry

Students

Faculties

When Chemistry Meets Computer Science

Track3D: immersive mixed reality application for

instructive learning and classroom training for employees

Have you got what it takes to become a coach?

Coaching a PiP project

Fine tune your project managementand entrepreneurial skills

Explore new ideas

What’s in it for you?

Help students launch a great solutionto a real life problem

Be amazed by what a group of brightstudents can do under your guidance!

PiP

Delphine RamonPhD Student architecture,

PiP coach ‘18-’19

Develop a sustainable solution

to help vulnerable groups deal

with urban heat islands

a lasting impact

MakePiP, IusStart, TechStart, …

Coachyour network

Expandby others

Be inspiredwith many otherentrepreneurialpeople

Collaborate

Want to take part in the community?

@Lcie.be info@lcie.be www.lcie.be