In September, the Rotterdam Innovation Lab will open its doors on the RDM Campus. The first entrepreneurs will have an intake to participate in the program. They will present their work in fifteen minutes to the selection committee.Mid October the Pressure Cooker process starts. It contains a intensive program of 100 days of intensive training and support to go from purely an idea, to a full business plan. Also we will have a first round of interviews with entrepreneurs that will join the incubation phase that will contain a three years program.
October 29 is the date you will have to save in your agenda. This day minister Jaqueline Cramer from the VROM ministry will open the Rotterdam Innovation Lab. It is a big day where you can see lots of innovative inventions, inspiring entrepreneurs and lost of press. And on this same day, the RDM Campus will officially be opened by a very, very, very important and famous person, some one you all know. Who is it?? You will read more about this later...
Rotterdam Innovation Lab has a complete program for pre-incubation and incubation and is now ready to start. The pre-incubation program is called the Pressure Cooker. This phase is focused to support potential entrepreneurs to develop their good idea into a succesful business plan. The package consist of a number of tools, coaching sessions and workshops during a period of 100 days, 14 weeks.
After the pre-incubation the incubation process follows. When the incubation phase starts, the entrepreneur is ready to consolidate his idea into a start-up. For this, TU Delft and the incubator for techno-starters YES!Delft provide incubation and training services to the entrepreneurs. This includes informative workshops like intellectual property, prototyping, internationalization, themed master classes, personal development and coaching.