CSE and GIBBS

Encubator would not be possible without the close collaboration with Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE) and Göteborg International Bioscience Business School (GIBBS) to create ventures from ideas. 

CSE and GIBBS provide the educational platform of entrepreneurs who develop innovative ideas into successful ventures within the operations of Encubator. CSE focuses on technology venture creation, while GIBBS focuses on exclusively biotech and medtech creation.

During the two years of the Masters program, the students are taught necessary entrepreneurial skills such as marketing, organization and management, intellectual property, strategy, and finance. The projects run at Encubator are an integrated part of CSE and GIBBS where educational development leads to project development. All students at CSE and GIBBS are carefully selected through a three-step admission process which includes essays and interviews. During the first year of the education, the students are also offered the opportunity to run a social entrepreneurship project, which provides them with unique experiences to further support their entrepreneurial development.

As a result of several years of experience and the carefully crafted admissions process, CSE and GIBBS have graduated more than 240 students who have either continued their innovation projects or been highly sought after by the labor market.

Management

Mats Lundqvist

CSE Director

Mats Lundqvist is the current and long-standing director of CSE, as well as one of the co-founders of the school, back in 1997. He holds a MSc and a PhD, both from Chalmers, and is heavily involved in building university-based innovation systems, both locally, regionally, and nationally. Mats has a history of entrepreneurial activity on both the venture level and institutional level and sits on the boards of various companies, incubators, development organizations and programs.

Boo Edgar

GIBBS Director

Boo’s professional experiences and career development spans several areas within the pharmaceutical industry and life science area, including clinical pharmacology and clinical research, project management, R&D Strategy Development and leading a discovery and research company.

Tomas Faxheden

CSE School Manager

Tomas Faxheden has a Masters of Law with specialisation in Intellectual Capital Management from Göteborg University combined with various courses in international law form Université de Toulouse, France and studies in political science from Lund University, Sweden. He has been employed as a teacher and advisor at Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP) since 2003 and started as CSE’s program manager in the beginning of 2007.

Kristina Henricson

GIBBS School Manager

Kristina has a background from Bioengineering at Chalmers with a MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from GIBBS. She ran her start-up company Hyron BioMedical up to September 2008 when she went to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to work for FAO, UN. 

Since May 2009 she is the new shool manager of GIBBS where she is handling various matters in the education, and being the interface between the students and the rest of the faculty. The position is combined with PhD studies in entrepreneurship at MORE, Chalmers.