Idea Mining An innovative tool for interaction between science and business...

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

German-Dutch University Days 23/05/2005

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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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