FBS key info
• Flanders Business School (FBS) concentrates its activities in three key areas: - The Intrapreneurial Learning Competence Center (ILC²),
- In-Company Executive Education
- The Executive Master of Business Administration with Focus on Entrepreneurship.
• In-Company Executive Education
Entrepreneurship is the life force of businesses that want to safeguard their market position. Often a latent presence, it's necessary to guide an organization so that the entrepreneurial potential within it gets the chances and tools to fully unfold. So arises within existing businesses, not only a broad platform for initiatives that carry real opportunities within them, but also a platform from which new streams of income can be developed. Usually this results in new ventures: projects that flourish under the wings of the existing company. Flanders Business School mentors businesses to attain this goal. In 2008 talented teams from Alcatel-Lucent, DEME and Picanol Group undertook in-company Executive Education. As part of the project, teams from Alcatel-Lucent and Picanol Group took part in the FBS-Entrepreneurial Boot Camp. The aim of this intensive training session is to map the course of entrepreneurial endeavors- from following up fruitful ideas, to setting up a business plan, to making a presentation in front of a faculty jury and venture capitalists- all founded on state of the art methodologies.
• Executive Master of Business Administration with focus on Entrepreneurship
Flanders Business School is the only school in Belgium offering the "Executive MBA with Focus on Entrepreneurship." FBS launched this master after master program in 2000, and since then has been building up expertise in this specialist area via its research center ILC² and via intensive innovation programs in businesses. This is a two-year program and a residential course. Applicants need to prove they have three years of relevant work experience in order to be eligible for the course. Students typically come from large businesses, which send high potential staff to FBS to learn how they can initiate new, profitable projects within the business. Students also come from SME that want to initiate growth, and from family-run businesses where successors need to be able to take the business to the next, higher level.
• The Intrapreneurial Learning Competence Center (ILC²)
Flanders Business School programs are able to draw on cutting-edge research from the Intrapreneurial Learning Competence Center (ILC²) that is centered on Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Organizational Learning and Innovation. Access to this unique research sets FBS apart from the rest. The Intrapreneurial Learning Competence Center (ILC²) is conducting international academic research projects for companies, for governments and for academia with one clear-cut focus: to foster high quality entrepreneurial endeavors and entrepreneurial programs. To enhance the entrepreneurial spirit in companies, ILC² conducted applied research projects for companies such as the Bekaert Group, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, Fortis, AB InBev, IBM and many others. To help develop an 'entrepreneurial society', ILC² also conducted research projects sponsored by public institutions such as the Federal, Flemish and Walloon regional governments and the Federal Science Office. In 2008 a number of research results were compiled and bundled in an easy-to-read book: "Verlicht Ondernemen" (or "Enlightened Entrepreneurship"). • FBS is located in Antwerp and works closely with the renowned Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. Amongst other subjects, students take a module in Global Entrepreneurship from the Kellogg School of Management.
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