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3D-ing: Entrepreneurship and Innovation through Virtual
Worlds
Nordic VW NetworkOctober 2010
www.nordicworlds.net#NVWN
Which professions and industriesWhich professions and industrieswill will notnot be revolutionized? be revolutionized?
2
From the mobility of goods From the mobility of goods to the mobility of financial to the mobility of financial
capital to … capital to …
...the “mobility” of labor?...the “mobility” of labor?Teigland 2010
Overarching Project Objectives
• To explore how entrepreneurs and SMEs globally use and could use VWs to improve competitiveness
• To create a Virtual Center for VW Entrepreneurship & Innovation
NVWN• Project Team of 9 Partners
• Interdisciplinary: Communication, Design, Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Innovation, Strategy
• International: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, USA
• Interorganizational: Academia, Industry, Public Sector
• Timing: March 2010 to February 2012• Total budget approx. USD 1 mln
• Nordic Innovation Center: USD 500,000
• Co-financing by partners: USD 500,000
An international and interdisciplinary team
Sweden • Stockholm School of
Economics, Center for Strategy and Competitiveness
• Associate Professor Robin Teigland• Assistant Professor Göran Lindquist• Research Associate Eilif Trondsen• Research Assistant Serdar Temiz
• Stockholm University• PhD student Hanna von Schantz • PhD student Elia Giovacchini
• Uppsala Univ, CIND - Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics
• Professor Dominic Power• MindArk AB
• Christian Björkman, Chief Marketing Officer
• Per Jonasson, Director of Special Projects
• Silver Design AB• Ulf Berlin, CEO• Patrick Geuder
Denmark• Roskilde Univ, Dept of Comm,
Business and Info Technologies• Professor Sisse Siggaard Jensen • Assistant Professor Lisbeth FrØlunde
Finland• Univ of Turku, Institutions and
Social Mechanisms• Professor Antti Ainamo • Dr. Titiana-Petra Moldovan
• TEKES • Development Manager Riku Mäkelä
Iceland• Icelandic Academy of Arts
• Director Fashion Dept Linda Björg Arnadottir
Norway• Univ of Agder, Center for
Entrepreneurship• Professor Jan Inge Jenssen • PhD Student Björn-Tore Flåten• PhD Student Ahmad Alaraj
5 evolving project areas
1. Next practices in entrepreneurship through virtual worlds
2. Innovation by virtual world platform providers
3. The future of virtual worlds
4. Postcards from the Metaverse edited book
5. Virtual center for entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Virtual world
Physical world
NVWN Research areas
Postcards from the Metaverse
An e-book with leading-edge voices from diverse backgrounds on how they imagine the future
immersive internet will shape or misshape society, politics, and the economy
Collection of short thought-provoking pieces
CFP to be sent out shortly
Virtual center for entrepreneurship
“Under construction”
All ideas welcome!
• Hope for strong Nordic, but also broader European and non-European
participation
• Knowledge sharing, including "lessons learned" by practitioners
• Innovation and experimentation
Join us in unveiling the 3rd Industrial
Revolution!
www.nordicworlds.net
Thanks and Thanks and see you in world!see you in world!
Karinda RhodeKarinda Rhode
aka Robin Teiglandaka Robin Teiglandrobin.teigland@hhs.serobin.teigland@hhs.se
www.knowledgenetworking.www.knowledgenetworking.orgorg
www.slideshare.net/www.slideshare.net/eteigland eteigland
Thanks and Thanks and see you in world!see you in world!
Karinda RhodeKarinda Rhode
aka Robin Teiglandaka Robin Teiglandrobin.teigland@hhs.serobin.teigland@hhs.se
www.knowledgenetworking.www.knowledgenetworking.orgorg
www.slideshare.net/www.slideshare.net/eteigland eteigland
Photo: Lindholm, Metro
7 Work Packages
March 1St 2010 - February 29th 2012
Work Packag
eWP Title
WP Coordinatin
g Organization
WP Supporting Academic
Organization
WP Advisor Organizatio
n
WP 1 Nordic VW Network SSE Roskilde
WP 2Best Practices in VW Innovation
Univ of TurkuIceland
Academy of Arts
TEKES Silver
WP 3Best Practices in
VW Entrepreneurship
Roskilde Agder MindArk
WP 4
Future of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in
VWs
SSE Roskilde TEKES
WP 5Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Agder SSE TEKES
WP 6 Communication Uppsala Univ of Turku
WP 7Project
AdministrationSSE Uppsala
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