Industry-University Collaboration

Industry-University Collaboration

Dr Peter KellyHelsinki School of Creative Entrepreneurship

Product Development Program (PDP)

• Involves technology and product/strategic design students

• Work in teams of 10 on a future oriented conceptual design project for a company

• Project proposal is developed by students with objective to create a functional prototype

• Academic credit

Professor Kalevi Ekman, HUT

Product Development Program (PDP)

• Sponsors pay a project fee of €10.000 and must be actively engaged

• Completed work is owned by the company

• Since 1997, 83 projects involving 780 students with 20% of the student body international

• Companies include Kone, Nokia, Stora Enso, Finnish Red Cross among others

• Rapidly evolving plan to establish a Product Development Laboratory

International Design Business Management Program (IDBM)

• Program started in 1995• 10-15 students yearly drawn

from the technical, business and design universities work in teams of 3-5 on projects commissioned by companies

• Projects include new product concepts, definition of customer needs, market analysis, corporate identity and so on

• Since 1995, 80 projects have been completed for leading Finnish companies

Markku Salimäki

Corporate Projects

International Design Business Management Program (IDBM)

• Companies provide a €10.000 budget for the project

– Travel budget– Student rewards– Project supervision & Tutoring– Administration

• Credited as a minor in Master’s degree Markku

Salimäki