The Louvain Innovation Network (LIN), established by UCLouvain, assembles six university partners in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.
All of them aim to support and equip leaders of innovative and entrepreneurial projects in order to create new businesses. While highlighting university and partner resources, LIN provides greater publicity in a high-density space for available offers: training, coaching, funding sources, co-working spaces, offices and services. 聽
Six partners in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation
- UCLouvain, a multidisciplinary, multilingual and multicultural university covering a wide range of study and research fields. The French-speaking world鈥檚 fourth-ranked comprehensive university, it hosts 30,000 students and 3,000 researchers at seven sites in Wallonia and Brussels.
- Louvain Technology Transfer Office (LTTO), a one-stop shop for developing research findings and technology transfer, composed of teams from the Research Department and Sopartec S.A., UCLouvain鈥檚 technology transfer company.
- , a private seed money and venture capital investment fund managed by Sopartec S.A. that invests in innovative advanced technology companies, UCLouvain spin-offs and start-ups.
- UCLouvain incubators: the Louvain-la-Neuve Center for Enterprise and Innovation and the Brussels Life Science Incubator are hosting service providers that help innovative start-ups and SMEs draft a business plan.
- , fruit of the partnership between UCLouvain and the Alliance Centre BW business association, which offers an annual forum, a web platform and networking events for innovators to expose their project to market realities and build a winning team around the project leader.
- UCLouvain science parks
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- UCLouvain researchers hoping to develop their research findings;
- future students considering entrepreneurship;
- recent UCLouvain graduates who want to create a start-up and need financial and/or organisational help;
- leaders of UCLouvain or other innovative projects;
- young businesses looking to expand;
- investors looking for university contacts to help create and develop their business, especially via university research.
Training support for your innovation project
CRECIS, UCLouvain鈥檚 Center for Research in Entrepreneurial Change and Innovative Strategies, established Louvain Innovation, an awareness-building and training initiative for business managers in how to use innovation management expertise developed by UCLouvain. To generate champions of innovation, Louvain Innovation offers businesses an executive training programme in innovation management that aims to impart tomorrow鈥檚 innovators all the necessary knowledge for leading a successful innovation project, with emphasis on managerial, economic and networking dimensions. This very practical programme helps the innovator use his or her 鈥榖usiness project鈥� as a hands-on means for training and to validate it by earning a university certificate. Louvain Innovation also offers on-demand half-day workshops for businesses and managers, led by CRECIS innovation experts.