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

SKILLS RESOURCES VISION DREAM PASSION MARKET NEED DEMAND Team project Long-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 Workshops In-Between Workshops Experts

Workshop Timeline MIDDLESTARTEND Review of Progress Instructions & Exercises Team Task Management

In-between Workshops Timeline REVIEW OF PROGRESS TEAM TASK MANAGEMENT team meeting expert appointment web search visualizations Google Docs web community interactions 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

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