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[[File:Leuphana.jpg|thumb|left|400px~~|Leuphana.jpg~~]]The Leuphana University of Lüneburg is a public university located in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany with 9,000 students.

The Leuphana is a young university. It is based on innovation instead of tradition. It is their ongoing aspiration to create a place that is being animated by the collective search for knowledge and viable solutions.

= Promotion of Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

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Leuphana University does many activities and offers a wide range of classes to support Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In master classes like Startup counseling, student teams are being matched with local startups to assist them in one specific issue. The students get to understand, how a startup functions while the startups get help in one specific research issue. In a course called Startup Management, students use the Business Model Canvas to sketch out their own idea. At the end of the course, all teams pitch their idea in front of Venture Capitalists to get funding. Next to the courses, there are lots of extracurricular activities focused on startup (counseling). Our Entrepreneurship Hub offers many workshop formats aimed at students (a) already having their own business or (b) wanting to start a venture. Also, there are lots of activities to promote the startup spirit within Leuphana: Workshops covering Design Thinking as a creative method to develop new services or products, the workshop ‘Next Top Gründer’ aims at bringing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship into local companies and student teams. Within this format, groups have to develop a market idea within a three hour workshop. '''The Leuphana Conference of Entrepreneurship''' is a huge event taking place once every year. National and international startups, investors and interested people come together for a couple of days to talk about the latest findings in the research on startups and venture creation as well as new business ideas.

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= Encouragement of Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

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The “startup-spirit” is not only promoted around students. Also faculties are being encouraged to act in a lean, startup-like fashion. Being organized in such a way is of course much easier for a small university than a huge one. Multiple faculties focus their research around innovation and startups. The faculty of innovation management, for example, focuses its research on what makes innovations succeed. Right now, they are primarily concentrating on social innovations within cities. One of their class offerings is aimed at students developing an idea for a social innovation (using the principles of design thinking and the Business Model Canvas) and - by the end of the course - pitching it to social entrepreneurs and investors.   Next to different faculties focusing on venture creation / startups, the upper mentioned Entrepreneurship Hub and its '''Startup Service''' ([http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/entrepreneurship-at-leuphana-university/start-up.htmlhttp://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/entrepreneurship-at-leuphana-university/start-up.html]), not only supports students, but also graduates and staff on how to successfully prepare and organize a startup business. So, the startup spirit is promoted throughout the whole university, which is the reason why Leuphana, with all its events, workshops and multiple formats has been ranked as the most entrepreneur-friendly medium-sized university in Germany.

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= The University Technology Transfer Function =

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The Leuphana University is in constant dialogue with those responsible for business and society. In line with its particular action-oriented competence profile, Leuphana sees itself as an efficient cooperation partner for the region. In doing so, Leuphana is willing to take up relevant questions in the fields of business, technology and administration, as well as in the social, cultural and environmental fields, as well as initiate her own innovation projects with the relevant partners, within the framework of knowledge and technology transfer. Products and services or to make processes more efficient: the Leuphana University sees itself as an efficient partner for business and society. With its transdisciplinary research, the university offers solutions to their problems to regional as well as international partners. By working together with Leuphana University, companies and organizations can develop ideas and implement innovations in practice. The contact for those activities is the '''Cooperation-Service''' ([http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation.html http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation.html]).

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= Facilitation of University-Industry Collaboration =

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The Leuphana University cooperates with the business in numerous projects. See in the following two examples: The project "Sustainability Innovations in Regional SMEs"(NIREM) ([http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/nirem.htmlhttp://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/nirem.html]) deals with the sustainability development of small and medium-sized enterprises from the transition region Lüneburg. The aim of the project is to build up and strengthen a transfer of knowledge between companies and regional universities. In this way, companies can profit from the current status of research on relevant sustainability topics and the participating universities integrate diverse and practice-oriented experiences into their own research and teaching. The "Digital Knowledge Transfer Model" ([http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/digital-knowledge-transfer-project.html http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/digital-knowledge-transfer-project.html]) project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the State of Lower Saxony, aims to promote and further develop digital change in research and development using digital tools in the transfer of knowledge in cooperation with the regional economy and society. </div><div> </div>

= Engagement with Regional and Local Economic Development =

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Within the business networks of Leuphana University economics, society and science are learning from each other on the same level. Scientists and experts provide entrepreneurs and organizations with application-oriented research results. Together, they are further developed into solutions for company practice in confidential working rounds. The Leuphana supports the implementation. Companies and organizations benefit from an extensive regional network. Innovations can translate them into economic success. The '''Innovation Incubator''' ([http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg.html http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg.html]) was particularly versatile in transdisciplinary cooperation. The EU economic development project implemented up to 16 application-oriented research and development projects at Leuphana by 2015. These collaborations between the university and at least one partner from the business community or from social, cultural or public institutions developed problem-solvable solutions in the short term. Central features were application orientation and usability on the basis of a practice-relevant task. In the two-year project period, the research projects should take up the needs of applied research and development from practice.

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