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Since its initiation in 2004, 25 to 30 start-up projects have been realized through the „Gründungslabor“, i.e. the entrepreneurship chair in conjunction with the facilities of the latter, for example in the field of corporate planning. While the matter of entrepreneurship has been widely dispersed and accepted by students, the pre-incubator of the “Gründungslabor” has not been as widely accepted. Thus, entrepreneurs ignore and miss the opportunity to learn from other entrepreneurs. Particularly, this aspect as well as its own funding are points the entrepreneurship centre wants to address in the future. Additionally, there is the hope to collaborate with other universities and to encourage research assistants and professors to become entrepreneurs. Lately, the University Leuphana Lüneburg has undergone substantial restructuring, initiated by their new president. Both, the chair and the Gründungslabor now hope that their position and role in the university will remain the strong. 6.2. University of Potsdam One of the youngest academic institutions in Germany is domiciled in the city of Potsdam, the University of Potsdam. The university was founded in 1991 and represents at present the largest institution of higher education in the State of Brandenburg. In fact, the university hosts about 17,000 students and occupies around 250 professors, an academic staff of around 600 people, as well as non-academic personnel of around 720 persons. In ambition of a classical university design, the University of Potsdam was founded in 1991 with a number of five faculties. In particular, the university, which is spatially spread throughout the city of Potsdam, consists of the Schools of Philosophy, Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Humanities as well as Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Besides, the University of Potsdam incorporated upon its foundation two educational institutions of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), to be precise the former College of Education in Potsdam and the Law Department of the Academy of National Law and Jurisprudence in Babelsberg. At the outset of the century, the university declared its aspiration to be in the fore of both, national and international competition for students and research funding. In pursuit of the aimed forefront position, the university dedicated a variety of efforts to develop a clear visible university profile. Following a recommendation of the Council of Science and further deliberations on the institute’s structure, the University of Potsdam concentrates on few particular fields of research. To be precise, the focus is laid on eight different fields of research, which are for most part interdisciplinary and comprise Geosciences, Life Sciences, 22
Cognitive Science, and five special areas of concentration. The latter areas contain 'Complex Systems', 'The Comparison of Cultures', 'Soft Mater', 'Economy - Institutions - Administration' as well as 'Potsdam Model of Teacher Training' from the field of Education. Moreover, the institute endeavours close cooperation with extramural research facilities as well as high-tech companies, which shall foster the competitive advantage of the university additionally, particularly for the future. Accordingly, each faculty is keen on networking with various facilities, ranging from extramural research, teaching, and politics to the economy. As result thereof, the University of Potsdam can refer more and more to collaborative projects with extramural research facilities. Most protruding so far might be the resulting creations of joint institutes and joint professorial chairs. Furthermore, the University of Potsdam occupies as of the year 2004 a professorship for the entrepreneurial education of its students. In the prominent appraisal of the University of Regensburg of the year 2005, the University of Potsdam finished second in the overall ranking. 21 The Chair Since 2004, the University of Potsdam holds a professorship chair for “Innovative Entrepreneurship and Medium-sized Business Development” (Stiftungsprofessur der Mittelbrandenburgischen Sparkasse in Potsdam für Innovative Existenzgründungen und Mittelstandsentwicklung). The chair, which is domiciled at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, is sponsored by the Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse until the year 2009. The appointment commission concluded for the professorship in favour of the current chair holder. Apart from the appointment to the chair of entrepreneurship, the designated professor is a member of the board of directors of the BIEM-CEIP, that is the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University Potsdam (“Centrum für Entrepreneurship und Innovation der Universität Potsdam”). Beyond, the current chair holder took up the position of the managing director of the Brandenburg Institute for Entrepreneurship and Midsized Business Development (“Brandenburgischen Instituts für Existenzgründung und Mittelstandsförderung”) as of 2006 and acts in the same position for the BIEM e.V. comprising all institutes of higher education of the State of Brandenburg. 21 Cp. Schmude, Uebelacker (2005) „Vom Studenten zum Unternehmer: Welche Universität bietet die besten Chancen?“ Ranking 2005. Universität Regensburg, Wirtschaftsgeographie und Tourismusforschung., p. 44. 23
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