Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship Building successful companies that create jobs and prosperity. Will Cardwell Head, Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship
May 06, 2015
Aalto Center for EntrepreneurshipBuilding successful companies that create jobs and prosperity.
Will CardwellHead, Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship
A merger of three leading Finnish higher education institutes: business, art & technology
Aalto University
The four cornerstones of ACEBuilding successful companies that create jobs and prosperity.
EntrepreneurshipResearch
Entrepreneurship Education
Innovation Servicesand TechnologyTransfer
GrowthVenturing and
Start-Up Services
Innovation researchSME research
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Highlights for ACE 2010Major new sales of Aalto patents to Finnish industry.
Record number of inventions from Aalto.11150
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Record number of priority patent applications filed based on Aalto Research.Record number of startups formed from Aalto-based ideas.
Strong new partnership with Stanford Technology Ventures and Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship.
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Largest VC funding round of recent history in Finland for research-based company went to Beneq (9m€), which relies significantly on Aalto expertise
We see many things in the ecosystem around Aalto that are encouraging:
Aalto startups Rovio (Angry Birds!) and Remedy Entertainment created number 1 and 2 global game titles.
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3M€ Large funding round to Canatu and Blaast (3+m€), recent Aalto spinouts (i.e. based on Aalto IP)
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Aalto competence commercialization process
Competence Commercialization Process completely re-vamped to efficiently realize economic potential of ideas and inventions
Proposal
Evaluation, concept development & validation of knowledge
Business Potential
Feasibility
Intellectualproperty
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Not all ideas are Commercialized, but all are Evaluated
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Intellectual Property
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Innovation ‘fast track’
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Any Ideas? Invented Something?Contact us directly: Will Cardwell, Head, 040 514 1325Pauli Laitinen, Innovation Services Team Leader, 050 338 0509
Or look at: http://ace.aalto.fi