Agenda

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Agenda

• Introduction BDF
• Start-ups
• New Businesses Friesland the project
• The Results

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Introduction BDF

• Project Organisation
• Idea to Project Management
• Team of 6 skilled professionals
• Start October 2002
• Co-operation
• www.bdfriesland.nl

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Introduction BDF

• Regional projects (NBF, Fryslân House)
• Business 2 Business projects
• International projects (Leonardo, Interreg, DG
  Entreprise)

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Mithras

• Project in the Leonardo Da Vinci Program
• Knowledge sharing in the metallurgical sector
• 7 European Partners
• Training to improve the innovation capacity and
  the
• competitiveness of a company

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Introduction BDF

• Kickstart
• Project proposal Province of Friesland
• 6 partners in NL, UK, F, LV
• Research entrepreneurship
• www.hansepassage.net/hansepassage

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Start-ups


Size
Phase 2 Survive
Phase 3 Growth
Phase 1 Start
Phase 4 Expansion
Phase 5 Maturity
Age

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Start-ups

• Churchill Lewis
• Start/Growth Survival Consolidation Growth
  Expansion Conglomerate
• Management Organization structure Formal
  systems strategy involvement owner
• Pragmatic skills owner
• Objective owner - company
• Finances - liquidity

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Start-ups
10.000 50.000 100.000
150.000 200.000 500.000 1.000.000
1.500.000 2.000.000

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New Businesses Friesland (NBF)

• Focus on knowledge intensive start-ups
• Strong focus on growth
• 1 on 1 coaching and advisory
• Professional advise on 6 areas
• 10.000 subsidy

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NBF

• Many companies from scratch
• Bright Spark Anode oxidation method to combat
  bacteria and viruses
• Teff gluten intolerance leads to new super
  nutricious flower. Applications in sports, gluten
  free products

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The Results

• 27 companies
• gt 180 new created jobs
• gt 6 MEur Investments
• Enormous growth in turnover
• Some companies expand, some consolidate
• Continuation of the Project Formula

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Continuation of Formula NBF2

• Success NBF formula
• Start in September 2004
• 14 companies
• Results so far
• 42 new created jobs
• Some companies expand, some
• consolidate

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The Results

• For more results
• www.bdfriesland.nl