Abstract
Founded in 2013 as a playground for implementation-oriented start-up ideas, the Gruendungsgarage is now an established academic start-up accelerator and an integral part of the regional start-up scene. Starting with a brief in-troduction to the program of the Gruendungsgarage as a best practice example with five years of experience in academic entrepreneurial education, a model with a practical-oriented focus for classifying the degree of digitalization in start-up projects is presented. Successful start-ups and promising start-up projects from the Gruendungsgarage are classified according to their degree of digitalization and illustrated by examples. Finally, implications for the practice in engineering education on entrepreneurship are derived and suggestions for future research are identified.
Highlights
As a cooperation between Graz University of Technology and University of Graz, the Gruendungsgarage is inter-university organized, interdisciplinary oriented and provides a convergence of scientific theory and entrepreneurial practice in the format of a course
With regard to the aspects of digitalization, the start-up projects participating in the volumes I to X of the Gruendungsgarage are examined in more detail in the present paper
Classifying a start-ups business model predominantly into analogue, hybrid or digital is a new approach and only a first attempt is made in the present paper referring to the following definition of a digital business model by Veit et al [9]: “A business model is digital if changes in digital technologies trigger fundamental changes in the way business is carried out and revenues are generated“ [9, p.48]
Summary
As a cooperation between Graz University of Technology and University of Graz, the Gruendungsgarage is inter-university organized, interdisciplinary oriented and provides a convergence of scientific theory and entrepreneurial practice in the format of a course. The technical possibilities and developments offer opportunities for business model innovations and new market participants arise [2]. Digitalization offers plenty of chances for start-ups and future entrepreneurs developing new business ideas. It is of interest in this paper to examine the start-up projects of the Gruendungsgarage and to answer the questions as to whether the start-up projects are affected by digitalization and how the start-up projects can be classified . With regard to the aspects of digitalization, the start-up projects participating in the volumes I to X (ten semesters) of the Gruendungsgarage are examined in more detail in the present paper. After analyzing the successful start-up projects of the Gruendungsgarage, implications for the entrepreneurship education, especially in the field of engineering education, are derived
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