Ondernemerschap & MKB Management

In 2008, thirty one thousand (31,000) people under the age of 30 started a new business in the Netherlands. This accounts for 33% of all starting businesses in that year. 19% of all new starting companies in 2008 were started by foreigners. [1] However, in the past five years, approximately 10 thousand companies were declared bankrupt each year[2], a fact that is unavoidably inherent to the domain of Entrepreneurship and SME Management...

The Entrepreneurship and SME Management Bachelor Degree Programme is for students who know that they would like to start and run their own business, and who want the support and tools that a Bachelor programme in Entrepreneurship and SME Management can give them. Students will be required to have an international outlook, and speak good English. These students will have ambition, optimism and good general communication skills. They will be imaginative, artistic, conceptual thinkers and have good social networks. The ESME programme will enable future entrepreneurs to more readily adapt to the changing environment, through the use of their learned skills, competencies and knowledge, thus also maximizing the avoidance of company failure. In cases where companies do fail, trained entrepreneurs will be more capable of ensuring continuation than those who are not specifically educated in the field of entrepreneurship.