23/05/2023
While entrepreneurship in startups receives the limelight, this next Delft Startup Night, Corporate Entrepreneurship Edition, will explore how leading companies implement entrepreneurial strategies to accelerate innovation by intentionally tapping into startup ecosystems as customers, investors, partners or potential owners. This is why recruiting or training employees with entrepreneurial skills and competencies is increasingly viewed as a powerful asset to help an organisation innovate and stay competitive.
From a student's perspective, the case will be made that even if launching a startup is not your ambition, gaining experiences that help build an entrepreneurial mindset and behaviours will benefit future employability and career growth. To re-purpose the famous saying from Steve Jobs, you don't have to choose between being a pirate and joining the navy.
To guide us through this enthralling topic, we have invited four representatives of exceptionally innovative and successful companies of different sizes, different ownership structures and from different industries:
ASML Ceyda Kucuk: Group Lead D&E Onsite at ASML
As one of ASMLs core recruiters of technical graduates, Ceyda will be able to shed light on what skills and experiences ASML seeks in their future employees and how corporate entrepreneurship maintains ASML's position as the undisputed global leader in building the most advanced and complex lithography machines.
Vattenfall Barbara Hofwijks, Vattenfall’s Innovation Country Lead NL
Barbara is an expert in corporate innovation in the power generation industry. She will offer insights into how corporate entrepreneurship at Vattenfall enables this state-owned company to transition from fossil fuels to nuclear and renewables in highly regulated and competitive national energy markets, including Sweden, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands.
SolarClarity + BLIQ, Paul van Deursen
Paul stood at the beginning of the development of "new ventures" at the SolarClarity Group. As a genuine corporate intrapreneur, he built on the market insight and resources available to him and successfully created an entirely new product in a virtually non-existing mar
