Fashion Business School TMO launches Enterprise course

Young talents with fashion start-ups are entitled to more opportunities. Enterprise and innovation must also be stimulated more within the fashion industry. That is why Fashion Business School TMO is launching a new addition to its curriculum: a course on Enterprise.

The new entrepreneurial course is a ‘real-life project’ geared towards ‘stimulating young up-and-coming TMO-talents to embark on a path of entrepreneurship with innovative fashion startups’. The most promising business concept will subsequently be rewarded with the ‘Meester Koetsier Award’, an investment amount of 10,000 euros.

TMO has joined forces with the Meester Koetsier fund, MITT, investors and various players in the industry to able to create this course. A variety of big names from the fashion industry will act as mentor/advisor, such as Roland Kahn Kahn Investments), Krein Bons (Van Haren), Mark Kooiman (Miinto) and Roeland Reinders.

”TMO wants to offer opportunities to fashion startups by young entrepreneurial talents and to stimulate enterprise and innovation in the fashion industry. Opportunities that do not exist in the current offering are now made possible thanks to the financial contribution of the Meester Koetsier fund and the MITT, as well as contributions in kind by various other parties in the industry,” says Fashion Business School .

New TMO course must provide opportunities for young fashion students

The first students have meanwhile embarked on the new trajectory. “We want to offer opportunities to students who really want this and are suited to it,” Chris van Veldhuizen reveals during the launch of the new course. “By actually carrying out ideas, students are able to achieve innovation in the fashion industry. We need new, fresh ideas.” Former Bijenkorf CEO, Jan Berger, also attended the launch in order to underscore the importance of the course and to encourage the students.

In the fifth semester, BP5 students will pitch their business ideas. An expert jury, consisting of professionals and investors, will subsequently nominate the top one, two or three ideas for independent enterprise. The winning idea(s) will then be further developed in the sixth semester, at the end of which it will once again be pitched to the jury. The experts and investors decide which ideas may be executed in the seventh semester. The students who receive the green light will graduate with their business concept, and the best wins the Meester Koetsier Award.

The students will present their pitch on 13 January 2017. The finals for the new business plans will take place in August.

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