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Fostering ICT Entrepreneurship in Europe
ITU Capacity Building, 20th September, 2017
Project Partners
Project Description
Recruited and trained 250 (target: 150) ICT entrepreneurs from 22 (target: 10) EU countries
Hosted Start-up Scrums (Summer Schools) in six countries (Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain)
Prototyped and implemented the first EU Virtual Incubator platform supporting 50 (target: 30) new multi-nationality start-ups
Inaugurated the EU-XCEL Born European Challenge Final
Key Activities
The Core Challenge
Fragmented Entrepreneurial Eco-System in Europe
Single Nationality Start-Ups – No European Vision
Local limits on access to co-founders, resources, expertise & markets
Limited collaboration at the entrepreneur and institutional level
European Context
% of Founders of the same nationality in the sample of EU Incubators
Objectives of EU-XCEL
Stimulate international collaboration in ICT entrepreneurship across Europe
Create a unique network of physical and virtual creative spaces for ICT start-up development
Coordination of European-wide intensive entrepreneurial action training events - ‘Start-up Scrums’
Fast-tracking the experience based learning and international networking of high potential young ICT entrepreneurs
Key Figures 2016
Applications Received 436 Female Participation 31%
Participants 187 (426) Team Task Completion Rate 90%
EU Countries Engaged 90% Participant Skills Growth 86%
Start‐up Scrums 6 Incubator Ready Teams 17
ExpertSpeakers/Advisers
86 Active Startups (Both Years) 20
Participants – Member State Representation
30 to 35 participants from each partner country
Also represented:
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Estonia
France
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
United Kingdom
Participants - Education
The Scrum Programme
The Start-Up Scrums – Key Features
Formation of 50 multi-national ICT start-up teams
Key Activities: Trend Analysis – Ideation - Conceptualisation Business Modelling – Prototyping – Team Structuring - Action Planning - Pitching
Thematically aligned classes and workshops
Supported by business and technical platform resources
Focal Areas: Health Informatics - Big Data -ICT4Development - Internet of Things - E/M Commerce
Matching Entrepreneurs
International Team Building
Ideating
Business Modelling
Pitching
The Experience
Gaspar, Computer Science Graduate from Hungary
“If you contrast it with places like Harvard, where you are encouraged in every way to chase your ambitions, we don’t have any start-up culture here at all. There is zero encouragement”
“Because of this it had never occurred to me that it was even possible to do this”
Illustrating EU-XCEL’s Impact
Paulina, Medical Doctor from Poland
Joined with…
Juan, App Developer from Spain
Ben, Strategy Consultant from Germany
Ariadni, Marketer from Greece
“The first affordable multilingual solution for immobilized people”
To Create…
“Just being there was a fantastic and inspiring experience…I felt like I had been waiting for this all my life”
“I realised that I had a deep desire to do this…Finally the chance had appeared on the radar”
“This type of thing just won’t happen without a programme like EU-XCEL…It’s filling a huge gap…Otherwise it just won’t happen”
PhD in Computer Science
Co-Founders – Tom (UK, Management Consultant), Timo (Germany, UX Developer), Carlos (Spain, Engineer), Rui (Portugal, App Developer)
Founded – Deedr,
B2B CSR Solutions for
large companies
Illustrating lmpact – Stathis from Greece
“In Greek culture, the biggest fear is letting down the people around you”
“I preferred taking the safe route…Honestly I never thought seriously about doing this before I came to Cork”
“There is a part of myself I didn’t know existed…I never knew I could do this”
“I regret not doing this sooner…I’m excited about where we go with this”
Illustrating lmpact – Stathis from Greece
http://platform.euxcel.eu/
Start-up Scrum Deliverables
Team Structure and Manifesto
14-week Roadmap
Initial Idea Pitch
Virtual Acceleration Deliverables
Validation, Protyping, Proof of Concept
Business Plan
Overview of Virtual Incubation
Virtual Incubator Supports
Bi-weekly status reports – Validation, Iterations, Prototyping
Each team matched with an expert mentor (e.g. SpeechAngeland Dr Ciara Heavin - Co-Director of the Health Information Systems Research Centre, UCC)
Hosting of technical and business resources (e.g PhoneGap)
Full visibility of mentor-team interactions allowing for consultation and roll-out of responses to problems
Final Business Plans submitted at end of 14 week programme
Illustrating lmpact – Jonathan from Germany
“All of a sudden I have people in all these countries I can turn to…It makes you feel so much more confident about what you can do”
“It’s changed my sense of what’s possible”
Degree in Economics, Enthusiastic Entrepreneur but had no international network
Illustrating lmpact – Mapper: Diarmuid (Ireland), Dariusz (Poland), Antonio (Spain)
• Company formed with Irish, Polish and Spanish Developers
• Won incubation space in Munich
But…
• How to fund relocation?
• Is there a viable pathway for multi-nationality young start-up teams?
EU-XCEL Challenge Final – The Finalists
B2C – Social Platform -Recreation
B2B – E/M-Commerce
B2B – Data Analytics
EU-XCEL Challenge Final – The Finalists
B2C/B – E/M Commerce
B2B – E/M Commerce
B2B – Health Informatics
EU-XCEL Challenge Final – The Finalists
B2B – Health Informatics
B2C – Social Platform –Youth Employment
B2B – ICT4Development –Social Responsibility
EU-XCEL Challenge Final – The Finalists
B2B – E/M-Commerce
B2C – Social Platform –Legal Interns
B2B – Data Analytics
Thank You
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