The Chair of En­tre­pren­eur­ship wel­comes you!

If you are interested in innovation-based start-ups, can imagine developing your own start-up or would like to test your research findings for start-up or transfer potential - then you have come to the right place. We sensitise, qualify and accompany those interested in founding a company or start-up projects in the development and growth phase. On the one hand through the teaching of entrepreneurship skills as part of the teaching modules and through the research activities of the professorship, and on the other hand through the offers of TECUP / garage33, the Paderborn University's start-up centre. Through evidence-based knowledge transfer, we will enable you to develop sustainable business models from ideas and test them experimentally in the garage33 field laboratory and in real start-up projects. The aim is to give you the opportunity to set up your own business.

„A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

Mark Twain,
Amerikanischer Schriftsteller

TECUP I garage33

Whether you already have a start-up idea or not - if you are interested in start-ups, then we are the right contact for you. Our aim is to support students and academics on their path to self-employment and to continuously strengthen the start-up culture at Paderborn University and in the OWL start-up ecosystem.

garage33, as an innovation quarter for those interested in founding a company and start-up projects at Paderborn University, is a place of exchange and inspiration. Here you can not only receive valuable resources and support, but also meet like-minded people and work together on innovative projects. We qualify you through our entrepreneurship programmes (e.g. Ideation, Incubation or Acceleration), coach you individually on your start-up project, network you in a targeted manner (e.g. as part of our Business Angel Network OWL) and much more in order to expand your skills and knowledge in the field of start-ups in a targeted manner and to accompany you into your start-up future as well prepared as possible.

We look forward to getting to know you and working with you to achieve your goals. Visit us at garage33 and find out more about the opportunities we have in store for you. Your journey into the world of innovation and start-ups begins here.

Start-up coaching

We provide you with personalised support on your way to setting up a business. Regardless of whether you are just starting out or want to hit the ground running.

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Entrepreneurship Programme

We support you with workshops, bootcamps and batches on the topic of entrepreneurship. Find the right programme for your project.

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Financing and investment

Are you the founder of a start-up and looking for capital? Or are you an investor and would like to become part of our network?

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Focus topics

Discover our focus topics in garage33, such as Corporate Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship or Women Up.

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Maker Space

The Maker Space offers all start-up teams a workshop paradise for developing their own prototypes.

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Re­search

The Chair of Entrepreneurship analyses issues on a theoretically sound empirical basis and makes contributions both to basic research and to entrepreneurial practice. In addition to examining the foundations of start-up research, the following focal points are pursued:

  • Spin-offs from science
  • Start-up motivation, intention and behaviour
  • Business model development and start-up enabling
  • Corporate entrepreneurship / intrapreneurship
  • Impact / Social Entrepreneurship
  • International Entrepreneurship
  • International human resources management
  • Challenges of corporate management at the interface between efficiency, added value and sustainability

PURE

The "Paderborn Unit of Research in Entrepreneurship".

Cranet

The "Cranfield Network on International Human Resource Management".

Field labor­at­ory gar­age33

Evidence Based Management and Entrepreneurship Research

Our team

We focus on learning and researching together and inspiring each other. We embrace diversity in our team, which is reflected in the different approaches, experiences and research specialisms of our employees. This helps to ensure that our department offers a lively and dynamic learning environment.

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kabst

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Johanna Häuser

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Alexander Blocher

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Teaching

At the Chair of Entrepreneurship, we offer teaching modules that provide you with both theoretical and practical skills for developing and realising start-up ideas. Here you can develop your entrepreneurial potential and learn how to turn your ideas into reality.

Whether Bachelor's, Master's or final theses. Discover our programmes for students.

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