Robert Noortman Trust

The Trust was founded by twelve local and national and international entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms that united to support a professorial chair in "The Art of Entrepreneurship" and the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship. Each entrepreneur has committed to an annual donation of at least €10,000. Their support roots the Centre in the realities of high-impact venturing and guarantees an enduring input to the leadership of the Centre.

The BioPartner Center Maastricht

The BioPartner Center Maastricht offers incubation services and facilities to life sciences start-ups. Its main mission is to increase the chance of success for life sciences start-ups. Through its three "tissue incubators" and "GMP cell therapy" clean rooms, the Center offers a complete range of facilities from laboratory scale to GMP production for life sciences companies active in the fields of cell therapy and cell culturing.

RWTH Aachen University

The "Chair of Business Administration for Engineers and Scientists" of the Aachen University (RWTH) aims to foster the economic and entrepreneurial education of engineers and scientists. Besides an introduction into business administration for Engineers and Scientists, students and founders can take lectures in various field of entrepreneurship and learn special skills like presenting and negotiating. Furthermore the chair is doing research studies in various fields to strengthen the research association and to enrich the entrepreneurial practice.

ULURU|Beagle

The MC4E partners with ULURU|Beagle to co-create innovative formats that inspire students, entrepreneurs and global brands. 

The Amsterdam based ULURU|Beagle group is an open innovation atelier that is focused on the development of new product and service concepts. A mix of intuitive market research (Beagle) and concept development including business and partner models (ULURU) leads to propositions that will quickly reach the desired yield and effect. Working on the principle of co-creation, ULURU|Beagle involves entrepreneurs, global brands and other parties in an early stage of business concepting to involve them in the process and find the role they can fulfill. U|B acts as a matchmaker and helps forging business alliances. U|B Group is part of an international network of companies that develop products and services through co-creation and open innovation.
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