Admir Salihagić

Admir is one of the pioneers of entrepreneurial university concept at International Burch University. He coordinates activities of Burch Starup Incubator which was founded in 2016 as the first startup incubator established within a university in Bosnia Herzegovina. He also organizes Burch Startup Competition and High school Startup Competition, both of which are aimed at helping young people in BiH into adopting entrepreneurial mindset and choosing entrepreneurial career path. Besides, he coordinates activities of variety of student clubs which are established with aim of focusing students on more narrow and specific areas within their study fields, which would help them develop their skills and knowledge for the purpose of developing their future products as entrepreneurs. This unique blend of youth creativity and enthusiasm , endorsed and supported by academic institution, watched and backed by mentors from industry has proven to be a successful ecosystem which already started giving results in form of a number of successful and stable companies run by students. Admir’s presentation will be about how they did it and how the university plans to make more.