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Translating Tech Education into Innovation-Driven Careers
Răzvan Rughiniș
Innovation: Why?
• Innovation as disruption• Increasing asymmetries of control
• Increasing asymmetries of information
• Innovation as construction• Trust
Trust
• Seeing the future• Careers of growth
• Seeing people• Face-to-face mentorship and peer
support
• Stable ecosystems• Universities as centers of gravity
How?
• Create local IP
• Re-imagine technical careers• Hyper-fast skill erosion• Fragmentation• Automation
• Bridge leaks in enrollment pipelines• Students & Faculty
• Attract passionate people• Attract diverse people
• Re-balance Universities
Re-imagine technical careers
• Focus: product design
• Amplifiers for tech competence
• Empathy & user experience
• Awareness of the ecosystem
• Diverse vocabularies
• Entrepreneurship
• Business
• Multi-disciplinary
Bridge leaks
• Gender: STEM vs. humanistic high schools
• Early employment vs. experimentation & growth
• Strategic corporate engagement
• Mentorship & models
Re-balance Universities
• Threat: Uberization of education• Loss of viral campus environments
• Loss of mentorship
• Opportunity: Innovation ecosystems• Fine-tuned involvement of corporations
• Channels of passionate & self-driven work• Laboratories, summer schools, contests
• Robotics, cybersecurity, AI, networking
• Innovation Labs
University-anchored, national accelerator
program for early-stage, tech-innovation
based start-ups that empowers students and young
graduates from tech & IT Universities to make their vision
real, completing a journey from creative ideas to user-
focused prototypes and products.
Intro
The evolution of
Grid Watcher:now incorporated as an Eximprod Grup’sSolution
OrangeFab Romania: 5 out of the 10 start-ups are InnovationLabsalumni
CredXP (with BRD)
IL 2018 alumni soon to lunch
Tag4IT (with BRD)
UPB students and faculty
Tech startups
created by
Success stories
ENTy
Pentest-tools
CODA Intelligence
Fullscreendigital
Wyliodrin
Appsulate
VisageCloud
Success stories
UPB students and faculty
Tech startups
created by
The building blocks of
The building blocks of
The building blocks of
2019
CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT
PROTOTYPEDEVELOPMENT
TESTING (WITH CLIENTS)
MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT
WHAT PARTICIPANTS DO SUPPORT WE OFFER
ACCESS TO TEHNOLOGIES
ACCESS TO CUSTOMERS
UNIVERSITY SUPPORTMENTORSHIP
MEDIA EXPOSURE
ACCESS TO DECISION MAKERS IN COMPANIES
SELECT SCHOLARSHIPS
TARGETED FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Program overview