Introducing HSCE Dr Peter Kelly Executive Director

‣ A collaborative “innovation platform” bringing together ‣ Students from Finland’s leading design (TaiK), technical (TKK), and business (HSE) universities ‣ A variety of funding bodies including cities (Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo and Kauniainen), the state (Ministry of Interior), and the private sector (Technology Industry Finland Centennial Foundation) ‣ Innovation catalysts (Culminatum) ‣ An innovation platform designed to - stimulate and support research commercialization efforts - hone the skills of students in “entrepreneurial practice”

‣ The Student Perspective ‣ We interviewed all applicants and assessed them on the basis of academic & entrepreneurial drive ‣ Seminars and workshops are organized throughout 2007 to form the HSCE module in Creative Entrepreneurship, a credit option in established masters degrees ‣ Students NEED to work in multidisciplinary teams, a process facilitated by participating in a 1 day teambuilding workshop and the 3 day Business Creativity Bootcamp

‣ The Student Perspective ‣ Each team works on a project of their choice to develop an actionable commercialization plan by year-end ‣ Each project is supervised by a Project Board chaired by an experienced businessperson ‣ Funding is available to undertake market research with the consent of their Project Board ‣ Students will be incentivized if a business is created or sales or licensing revenues are secured on the back of their efforts

‣ Our Inaugural Class in Profile (n=13) ‣ Female (4), Male (9) ‣ TaiK (3), TaiK+TKK (2), TKK (3), HSE (4), HSE+TKK (1) ‣ Multilingual talent pool with fluency in Finnish, Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese ‣ Deep base of overseas and entrepreneurial experience ‣ 2 recruits left the program in the early stages having discovered that “entrepreneurship was not for them”

NanoTubes: Canatu Working with a group of renowned scientists and engineers including Professor Esko Kauppinen Dr David Brown (US) Dr Albert Nasibulin (Russia) Dr Hua Jiang (China) Evaluating commercial applications for NanoTubes

Heart Monitor Project Project introduced by TKK Professor Risto Ilmoniemi who spun-out Nexstim Evaluate the commercialization options for research undertaken by group lead by Heikki Väänänen Another project team member, Juhani Dabek is an HSCE student

RFID Project Heikki Seppä, an employee of VTT holds more than 80 patents in the field of RFID The HSCE team will be evaluating commercial opportunities targeted at home automation applications

Tying Fishing Knots With One Hand Team will be working with two entrepreneurs to evaluate commercialization options for the US market

The First Encounter December 2006 Hirvihaara Manor House Teambuilding with renowned teambuilding coach, Aku Koppakala “Building comfort and trust levels among students”

Creativity Bootcamp We used 12 creativity techniques to generate 3100 ideas for Finnair to the challenge of “how to make long-haul economy better”

Our Experience Design coach, Dr Ronald Jones built upon the Creativity Bootcamp by having students redesign the experience of clearing airport security

Then our networking coach, Dr Bill Paulin, shared his perspective on Action-Based Research

‣ And more talented experts will be involved over the coming year... ‣ Our sales coach works for Scottish Enterprise and is a Sales Director for a Bristol University spin-off company ‣ Our legal coach is a partner of a local law firm and is a business angel ‣ our entrepreneurial strategy coach is the founder of the Chalmers Entrepreneurship Centre ‣ our business plan writing coach is an active entrepreneur and business angel based in London ‣ Inspiring HSCE students to “take a global view”

‣ Rapid Prototyping Program … ‣ Stage 1: Honing Your Creative Potential (5-6 credits) ‣ Creativity tools & practice ‣ Initial prototype for a nascent idea from simple materials ‣ Stage 2: What’s Out There Now? (5-6 credits) ‣ With initial prototypes in hand, exploring what offerings already exist to address the underlying consumer needs ‣ Stage 3: What’s Your Offer? (5-6 credits) ‣ Develop a working prototype in collaboration with innovation catalysts such as Keksintösäätio to show potential customers, suppliers, partners and investors ‣ Stage 4: Is there a Business? (5-6 credits) ‣ With prototype in hand, evaluate the logic of building a new business ‣ Each stage provides an option to continue or abandon as circumstances warrant

“Creativity Corner” a place that would encourage and stimulate creative thinking a playful environment that encourages experimentation through creating visual solutions (rapid prototypes) to practical or messy problems

Dr Peter Kelly Executive Director Markku Salimäki Director HSCE Key Personnel Professor Raimo Nikkanen Director