In 2023, delegations from Lehigh and TU Dortmund gathered for intensive roundtable discussions to identify shared challenges in both their communities, establishing short- and long-term goals for continued collaboration over the upcoming months.
Those goals include:
- Establishing a shared “problem bank” for student entrepreneurs to draw upon when exploring ideas to form their ventures
- Sharing best practices to support PhD students with opportunities to explore entrepreneurial ventures to commercialize research
- Encouraging greater flexibility and short-term exchange opportunities for student entrepreneurs
- Establishing a co-branded experimental laboratory in which student entrepreneurs can seek guidance from faculty at both Lehigh and TU Dortmund, providing them with a truly international experience
- Identifying shared research interests for collaborative work in the areas of entrepreneurship
Visiting researcher
Daniela Gimenez, Junior Professor of Entrepreneurship at TU Dortmund, was named a visiting researcher at Lehigh in the Summer of 2024 and has been collaborating with Lehigh@NasdaqCenter on a research project related to entrepreneurial well-being as part of Lehigh’s Future Fellows program. Gimenez worked with Willy Das, research scientist and curriculum innovation manager at Lehigh@NasdaqCenter, on a project to develop sustainable solutions for entrepreneurs' mental, physical, and emotional well-being