Innovation Leaders

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Innovation Leaders

• Sien Luyten

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What matters

• What matters

• Oraura is a business service company with a focus
  on entrepreneurship and innovation. Both concepts
  are intertwined. To turn innovation into
  business, you need entrepreneurship, an
  entrepreneurial culture and people who want to
  make a difference.

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Our concern

• Our concern

• From idea to business plan, from opportunity to
  business, that is our business.
• We inspire
• Entrepreneurs to set up and grow their business
  faster
• Large corporates to connect to innovative small
  businesses and researchers
• Entrepreneurial teams to develop their idea into
  a business plan

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What we believe in

• Innovation is...

• Entrepreneurship is...

• something new that creates new opportunities
  for growth and development. Many successful
  innovations begin with a user need. Some
  innovations occur because of a lucky coincidence
  or scientific discovery. The innovator then
  looks for the user and then tries to find market
  applications (of the technology).

• Innovation is people-centric, not technology,
  capital or market driven. No matter how bright
  the idea, without people to execute it, it wont
  fly. Thats entrepreneurship.
• We have a very pragmatic, hands-on approach.

• Why is innovation important?

• If you continue to do what you have always done,
  you will get the results youve always had.
• Budgets may be sharp but there is no reason to
  trim down ambition

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Entrepreneurial Bootcamps

• Entrepreneurial Bootcamps

• We run Bootcamps for corporates where teams turn
  their ideas to underpinned business opportunity
  plans. The corporates venture board/management
  team/innovation council then decides to create
  the venture, incubate, spin-off or abandon the
  plan.
• From time to time we also set up Open Bootcamps
  where teams from different companies sit
  together and work on the creation of their own
  business plan.
• Before the bootcamp we co-ordinate the
  brainstorming, idea collection and composition of
  the multi-skilled teams
• After the bootcamp we accompany the incubation
  process.

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Entrepreneurial Bootcamps

• What s in it for the company?

• Whats in it for the participants?

• a very structured way to create, present and
  defend venture proposals with a mature business
  opportunity plan to a professional venture board,
  a jury of executive managers and an
  international scene of venture capitalists
• a unique tool to quickly identify hidden skills
  and expertise among participants in domains such
  as communication, presentation, entrepreneurship,
  innovation, leadership business acumen
• an opportunity to screen and guide project team
  members to help them form the best
  entrepreneurial teams
• a method to learn how to cope with and overcome
  gravitational forces and barriers in organizations

• intensive personal development and learning
  programme
• limited in time
• strong exposure to business executives, the
  industry and financial experts
• a stretch programme for young entrepreneurs,
  researchers, marketing engineers and business
  developers
• a means to connect with committed and talented
  people with complementary skills
• unique networking opportunities
• No matter how the idea turns out, in the worst
  case participants will have a great experience, a
  unique adventure, a lot of new friends and a
  considerably improved network

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Innovation Challenges

• Innovation Challenges

• We launch Innovation Challenges where we bridge
  the gap between the needs of entrepreneurs and
  large corporates. Large corporates are
  increasingly pursuing multiple approaches to
  access external innovative talent, products,
  services and expertise.
• Innovative ventures and their entrepreneurs face
  many obstacles on their path to prosperity
  limited access to finance, management, marketing,
  manufacturing, sales and distribution channels,
  elements which are often ready at hand within
  corporates.
• Oraura is operational in matching both type of
  players and engaging them in a wider network
  with external financiers.
• By launching industry specific Innovation
  Challenges where large corporates and ventures -
  and even well advanced research projects - can
  meet and co-develop business, innovations can be
  brought to market faster.

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Fundamentals again

• Do you mind?

• We work methodically with proven formulas and
  process driven towards tangible results. We
  cherish flexibility but shun ad-hoc solutions
• We create value by rolling up our sleeves and
  bringing our knowledge, expertise and network
  together to generate business.
• In short, we deliver results.

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Our roots

• Where does this come from?

• experience in mentoring and coaching
  entrepreneurs and ventures both face-to-face as
  group sessions
• experienced facilitator of the process of venture
  co-investment (both national and international
  investors) and deal making process with small
  organisations
• Leverage a team of international experts in the
  areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy
  and finance (co-operation with businessschools,
  venture capitalists and many other experts). 
• Known from the European Venture Contest, European
  TechInvestment Forum, European Biotech Forum,
  Benelux VentureSummit, Nordic Venture Summit,
  China Biotech Forum and many many more.

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The Founders

• Who cares

• Roland Nobels, a successful serial entrepreneur
  himself, has a long career in boosting companies
  to realise their full potential.  He is
  fascinated by the intersection of human
  creativity, technology and economics as a means
  to shape the world. Fostering entrepreneurship
  is the fil rouge of his career.  His drive is
  challenging individual entrepreneurs on the
  assumptions their business case is based upon.
  Honest feedback and respect for the
  entrepreneur's endeavours are the basic
  ingredients of his approach. 
• roland.nobels_at_oraura.com 32 475 78 02 46
• Sien Luyten keeps being amazed by the human
  ingenuity to come up with bold and bright answers
  for small and big problems. She very much likes
  technological solutions to be eloquently
  translated into sustainable business (cases).
   Brand management and reputation building are the
  main themes of her career. (Technology)
  entrepreneurs have broken up quite a few industry
  sectors and will keep doing so to solve pressing
  issues like energy supply, demographic issues,
  health and education, communications, etc. She
  takes great interest in being a link in these
  creativity chains.   
• sien.luyten_at_oraura.com 32 476 543 574