Entrepreneurship 2020*
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“It’s about passion based learning”Kalevi “Eetu” Ekman
"When I teach in universities I'm not running
an incubator. What I'm trying to do is to get
students to learn a way of thinking about new
ventures that will stick with them for life. And I try to do
by having them teach themselves, rather than us teaching at them. Whether
they start a company or not, I don't keep score.”
Steve Blank
“Co-creation is at the heart of Porto Polytechnic. And
that’s how we should look at entrepreneurship.
We are so many and so different; we can learn so
much from each other. Let’s bring interdisciplinary
education and work back to the centre of our strategy!
Let’s make it happen!”Rosário Gambôa
Inspiration
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- public higher education institution;
- 7 schools (engineering, business, education, arts, health, technology,
design);
- > 18.000 students;
- applied research and development tradition and
vocation;
- close connection with business (at the ❤️ of PT
industry);
- > 10 years of entrepreneurship support activities;
Who are we?
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- new generation of entrepreneurship support policies:- business as usual was not enough anymore!
- were we on the “right side of history”?- dissatisfaction with main outcomes from our
programs:- we needed better business and product ideas!
- we needed better teams!- entrepreneurship ecosystem grew substantially:
- are we all doing the same?
- in what way could we be more effective in the life cycle?- we were unable to involve “unusual suspects”:
- how do we get musicians, performing and visual artists in?- the 7 schools were not working together:
- break the silos!!!!
Starting Point
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- develop a distinctive entrepreneurial culture @ Porto Polytechnic;
- add value to the entrepreneurship ecosystem, by providing students with world class education;
- allow students to co-design and be responsible for their education;
- provide the right setup to enhance ideation, concepting and commitment stages.
Ambition
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- internal analysis: - analysis of our educational offer; - analysis of our educational offer in entrepreneurship & product dev.; - workshop with stakeholders from all schools (using HEInnovate);- extended dialogue with startup founders and others at the
ecosystem;- extended dialogue at Presidency level.
- international benchmarking:- applying the HEInnovate tool (self assessment and comparison);- identifying international best practices in each dimension of
HEInnovate;
Work Methodology
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- back at our original mission:- we are higher education institutions! - our job is to provide students with the best possible education! - we don’t know how to run incubators, accelerators, hackatons, etc!
- other people (including students) do it much better that we do!!!!- interdisciplinary education and work is part of our
DNA:- schools need to collaborate! students demand it!- we need to design joint programs, and/or…
- … allow students and teachers to move back and forwards!- “tangibles”, manufactured products, technology…
that’s our thing!- don’t misunderstand us… we love virtual, software, IT, etc., …- but we are damn good at designing, developing, prototyping and
scaling products!- and 95% of the industry around us are also into that!!!
Conclusions
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- porto design factory:- experimental education platform for co-creation, development and
acceleration of innovative ideas; - “nobody’s house; everybody’s house”; it belongs to the 7 schools! - informal, low-hierarchy and disruptive approach to the class room;- students come first, second and third…
- part of Design Factory Global Network, powered by Aalto University;- redesigning our whole educational offer:
- since 2014 we have a Pro-President just for that!!!- redesign curricula, by introducing an interdisciplinary, teamwork-
centered and entrepreneurial insight;- we love super-specialists!!! but “no man [or woman] is an island…”;- more flexibility, more optional courses, more in-university
mobility…- adopt the Bologna spirit at last!!!!- get companies to co-design our education with us!!!
Outcomes
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- organization level:- a new project unit, to get the schools to get together;- a new pro-president to rethink and redesign our educational offer;- more international collaboration;- more effective collaboration with industry;
- new people brought to inner core of the Presidency (non-academic);- education level:
- redesigning curricula, embedding this new entrepreneurship culture;
- rethink the whole educational offer;- new importance to short term / non-credit programs;- new programs based on interdisciplinary team work;
- international product development joint projects.- cultural level:
- dialogue is starting! people are curious about crazy pilots we started;
- students as responsible for own education;- in-house exchange of knowledge and resources.
Changes
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But have only just begun…
Thank U!
Carlos Ramos([email protected])
Rui Coutinho([email protected])
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