Post on 21-Dec-2015
Idea Mining An innovative tool for
interaction between science and business
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Anna-Maija Kasanen Dr. Sabine GlögglerInnovation Office University of Münster
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Index of Contents
1) What Idea Mining is about
2) Procedure
3) Benefits
4) Effect and Added Value
5) Experience Report
6) Status Quo
7) European Cooperation
8) Outlook 2006 +
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Idea Mining is...
• small interdiscipline groups of students, professors and employees of the company (max. 12 persons)
• participating short (5-6 hours) Think Tanks in companies
• with the object to develop new ideas and solutions by means of various creativity techniques for the company
• The subject is determined by the company
• The Think Tanks are paid by the company
• Idea Mining is prepared, implemented and postprocessed by the Innovation Office
• The participants obtain a certificate
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Procedure of Idea Mining
(1) Introduction: Idea Mining (Innovation Office), company (CEO), participants
(2) Creative component: approaching the problem from different views on the basis of various creativity methods, team working etc.
(3) Structuring of the originated ideas; compilation of an action plan. Awarding of certificates for the participants.
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Benefits
For the company:
- External view to internal problems
- Access to the know-how of five universities
- Access to top students
For the university:
- Practical application of theoretical know-how
- Access to job market
- Research projects
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Effect and Added Value
answers tocomplex questions
formationinventions patents of a
company
employabilaty
formationof a
company
contactsuniversity innovation
companies
offer companies for innovation
sale
social skills
incubation
business idea
own job
new jobs
Idea - Mining - Value-added chains
transparency of economical processes
research, staff transfer
students from other
departments/ universities
cooperation
impulse spectrum of effectstransfer agency
patent-, formation- advice
professors supervision
ideas
licensing
THINK
TANK
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Experience Report• 10 implemented Think Tanks
• Heterogeneous purchaser companies, cities, university („inhouse think tanks“), etc.
• Major demand among students („soft skills“)
• The method in most cases new for companies, but the results surprise and convince (high demand for follow-up meetings)
• The most important components of Idea Mining are the composition of the team, the definition of the problem and the communication with the company
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Status quo
• Leading project of the Westphalian Foundation • EU best-practice project of the Dutch Urban Expert
Centre/ Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Den Haag
• ALFA-UNIEMRENDE network, Santiago de Compostela
• ALFA-KICK START network, Salamanca• Benchmarking in the EIMI network (European Idea
Mining for Innovation), Münster• Part of the POWeR network (Patentoffensive
Westfalen/Ruhr universities Bielefeld, Dortmund, Münster and Paderborn), Dortmund
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European CooperationIntensive communication and exchange of experiences with 12 European universities in the context of the EIMI-network (European Idea Mining for Innovation) and 3 universities in the context of the ALFA-UNIEMRENDE-network
– Aalborg University, Denmark – University of Bielefeld, Germany – University of Compiégne, France – University of Dortmund, Germany – University of Groningen, The Netherlands – University of Jyväskylä, Finland – University of Münster, Germany – University of Oulu, Finland – University of Paderborn, Germany – University of Salamanca, Spain – University of Tartu, Estonia – University of Warsaw, Poland
– Universidade do Minho, Portugal– TU Ilmenau, Germany– University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Outlook 2006+
• Integral part of the „General Studies“
• Bookable service of the university for companies
• Close cooperation and exchange of experiences in European and other international networks
• Training of the international partners (Brasilia, Venezuela, Russia) since February 2005
• Part of the Centre for Graduate Studies (in planning), University of Münster
Thank you for your
attention!Anna-Maija Kasanen
Dr. Sabine Glöggler
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Preparation phase • Kick off seminar • Working Groups (partly advised) • Outcome seminar (four weeks before the Think Tank) Implementation phase Analysis phase • Conclusion seminar • Evaluation by the university and the company
Competency aim
- Independence, proactive behavior
- Capability to organize - Analytical thinking - Accuracy - Curiosity - Interdisciplinarity - Ability to integrate - Rhetoric
- Fancy - Ability to work in a team - Ability to enforce - Ability to communicate - Creativity - Ability to integrate - Presentation of the ideas
- Expression of ideas - Aim orientation - Initiating of projects - Project management - Ability to ballot - Ability to integrate - Competency to change - Ability to conceptual and
analytical thinking
Contents
- Data-recall facility about the company/ branch
- Tide of the branch national/ international - Use of information sources; situation of
licenses - Preoccupation with methods of presentation
and creativity - Preoccupation with new and unacquainted
departments and perceptions - Experience with cross-border-fertilization
- Thematic Think Tank in a Company - Appliance of and experience with methods
of creativity - Evolution of own ideas - Elaboration of problem solving - Preoccupation with new and unacquainted
perceptions, acquirement and further development
- Cross-border-fertilization - Presentation of results
- Individual compilation of idea report; verbalization of strategies to realize the ideas; presentation of the ideas
- Follow up-meeting after three months
Expenditure of time
Face to face teaching/workload
27,5 hh
5 ht
in company
27,5 hn
Aufgliederung in Aktivitäten Bachelor-
/Masterphase Promotions-
studiengänge
Structure for awarding two credit points in the framework of Idea Mining in companies
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