← Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Startup Incubation & Entrepreneurship Center

Supports entrepreneurial ventures emerging from research by providing mentorship, resources, and seed funding, applying lean-startup methodology, business model canvas work, and pitch coaching to prepare founders for investment.

Technology Transfer & Commercialization Center Innovation Hub & Open R&D Center Startup Incubation & Entrepreneurship Center International Partnership & Cooperation Center Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center

Research Fields 15

⚖️ Entrepreneurial Risk & the Theory of the Entrepreneur

The theory of the entrepreneur is the branch of economics that explains who undertakes new…

⚙️ Lean Manufacturing Origins of Lean Startup Methodology

This field is the engineering half of the Toyota-derived lean tradition: the concrete manu…

💼 Venture Capital Industry Founding

Venture capital is the institutional practice of pooling outside money to buy equity in yo…

😇 Angel Investing & Informal Risk Capital

Angel investing is the deployment of personal wealth, by individuals acting on their own a…

🐣 Business Incubator Model

A business incubator is an organisation that hosts early-stage firms in shared subsidised …

📮 Direct-Response & Scientific Advertising (Growth Metrics Origins)

Scientific advertising is the doctrine, codified by Claude Hopkins — chief copywriter at L…

🍟 Franchising & Scalable Business Replication

Franchising is a replication strategy in which a firm (franchisor) licenses a proven busin…

🤝 Operating Venture Capital & Board-Level Startup Mentorship

Operating venture capital is the style of investing in which the general partner contribut…

🧬 Deep-Tech Spin-off & Founder Exodus Culture

Spin-off dynamics are the process by which employees leave a technology firm or laboratory…

🔁 Founder-to-Investor Transition & Ecosystem Building

The founder-to-investor transition is the career pathway by which successful technical fou…

🎤 Persuasion, Pitching & Motivational Psychology

Persuasion psychology studies how attitudes and decisions change through communication — t…

📊 Market Research & Customer Validation Methodology

Market research is the systematic measurement of consumers, markets, and media audiences —…

🏢 Organizational Theory for Scaling Startups

Organisational theory for scaling firms explains how growing organisations coordinate effo…

🏦 Investment Banking, IPOs & Investor Relations

Initial public offerings are the institutional passage by which a private company sells se…

🌸 Direct-Sales Entrepreneurship & Underrepresented Founders

Direct-sales entrepreneurship builds businesses through trained commissioned agents who se…