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Innovaatiokuukaus® / Innovation Month® ACE –
Advanced Collaboration for Entrepreneurship -project
Innovation Month®
Need•Most courses are boring, non-practical and don’t train skills necessary after graduation.•Desire to develop own business idea.
Usual Options•Wait for graduation; After graduation no time to try out things•Look for business lectures; no innovation, no networking, no passion•Meet public officers makes you passive
Innovation Month®
Solution•Innovation Month® 5 ects credits •8 workshops •Team and solo work between workshops •In English•Use of Google Docs / Facebook, •Meet different experts•Learning diary
Innovation Month®
Benefits•Unlike any other course high intensity results in maximum learning and insights about self and innovation•Expanded personal networks•Get familiar with practical Innovation and Business thinking•Chance for being part of a great team developing new interesting stuff
SKILLSRESOURCES
VISIONDREAMPASSION
MARKETNEED
DEMAND
Team
pro
jectLong-term
hobby
Former job
New study program
Macro Structure
1. Personal skills, goals (preliminary assignment)2. Seeing opportunities (WS 1.)3. Team formation (WS 2.)4. Idea creation
• Modelling and problem definition (WS 2.)• Borrowing ideas• Ideation (WS 3.)• Critical evaluation (WS 3.)
5. Value Proposition (WS 4.)6. Refinement from different perspectives
• Sales (WS 4.)• Financial analysis (WS 5.)• Marketing (WS 6.)• Risk analysis and future plans(WS 7.)
•7. Business plan and Testing•8 Launch
END
Innovation Month®
MIDDLESTART
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Workshops In-Between Workshops
Experts
Workshop Timeline
MIDDLESTART END
Review of Progress
Instructions & Exercises
Team Task Management
In-between Workshops Timeline
REVIEW O
F PRO
GRESS
TEAM TASK
MAN
AGEM
ENT
team meeting
expert appointment
web search
visualizations
Google Docs
web communityinteractions
learning diary
Some Statistics
• First Innovation Month® in November-December 2009•At the moment course NO: 28•Over 420 participants•Participants from 36 different countries• Students from Karelia UAS, UEF, PKKY, JAMK• design, international business, engineering, physics,
economics, forestry, management, accounting, media, game development, computer science
Some Statistics
•20 established companies (50 workplaces)•Communication and Product Development• International Business•Graphics Design•Security•Etc.
•Several future companies in pre-incubation
THANK YOU!!!