Hanken Newsletter 03 2016

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NEWSLETTER 3-16 FROM HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Torget and Stugan – new entrepreneurial opportunities Hanken New Ventures started a couple of years back at Hanken in Vaasa. The aim was to boost entrepreneurship among our students and the ultimate goal was to inspire our students to found new businesses. From the start our alumni have been deeply involved in cultivating innovative business ideas and pitching business plans. Our expectations have been more than exceeded, but the number of new businesses is still moderate. This spring we decided to take the same concept to Hanken in Helsinki and combine it with the business lab concept in the Arkadia building, set up by the Erling-Persson Center for Entrepreneurship last year. Around the same time Hanken School of Economics signed an agreement with Suomen Yrittäjät ry - Företagarna i Finland rf. to boost entrepreneurship among our students and alumni. A strong indication of Hanken’s intention to do so is the initiative to create two meeting places for our students and alumni

with a common interest in entrepreneurship. In October the new meeting places Torget in Helsinki and Stugan in Vaasa will be launched. The planning process has been quick and the involvement of students high. In the future my sincere hope is that Hanken through our alumni will be able to provide a share of the seed money for these set-ups. Following an international model, invested seed money will correspond to a certain share in the set-up. When the enterprise is up and running the share will be sold and re-invested in new set-ups.

S Ö R EN KO C K DEAN

ONE-MILLION-EURO DONATION FROM THE ERLINGPERSSON FAMILY FOUNDATION During the opening of the 108th academic year of Hanken School of Economics, Rector Karen Spens published a one-million-euro donation from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation. As a result of the donation from the Swedish Erling-Persson Family Foundation, the fundraising campaign HANKEN RETURNS has now raised over 6 500 000 euro. This is the foundation’s second donation to Hanken. - We have observed how well Hanken has administered raised funds and the effects of this. The results show that donations to the university have direct effects on both education and research, as well as on the society at large. Research and development are absolutely crucial for the future of countries, and with this donation we hope to contribute to continued progress, says the Chairman of the Foundation, Stefan Persson.


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