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

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MARKETNEED

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hobby

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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

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Innovation Month®

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Workshops In-Between Workshops

Experts

Workshop Timeline

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Review of Progress

Instructions & Exercises

Team Task Management

In-between Workshops Timeline

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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!!!

iouri.kotorov@karelia.fi