Students, Entrepreneurship and Startups in Sustainable Development at Aalto University
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Students, Entrepreneurship andStartups in Sustainable Developmentat Aalto University
Aalto University operates in a culturalcontext that has allowed strong openinnovation traditions to develop andflourish. This includes the work andinspiration of pioneers of IT such asLinus Torvalds with Linux, andMarten Mickos and Monty Wideniuswith MySQL.
The Aalto open innovation initiative
• explore societal challenges• examine research interests• address corporations’ and other organisations’ needs for bottom-up projects• create corporate projects based on new insights from research.
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
Startup Sauna
StartupLife
Aalto Center forEntrepreneurship
Co-workingEnvironments
InternshipProgram
Commercialization &Business Development
OIH
Aalto Start-upCenter
Slush
University educationalprograms
Corporate-driven activities
University-operatedStudent-driven activities (part ofStart-up Sauna Foundation)
Student organization
Vertical
Start-up Center
Summer ofStart-ups
AccelerationPrograms
StartupSauna
AaltoVenturesProgram
ExecutiveEducation
MBA
EducationPrograms
MSc Program inEntrepreneurship
& Innovation
Vertical
ImpactIglu
xEdu
EIT BD Support
Spurring Entrepreneurship withrange of activities
Research & Education
CorporatepartnersComplementary
PartiesCoaches
SBC (Small Business Center)
Training for entrepreneursBusiness development services for smallbusinesses
Project Services
Around 200 innovation proposals/year-> 10-15 companies->20-30 patent applications
Aalto Ventures Program
Problem based learning program to foster entrepreneurialmindset and skills
Co-operation with Stanford
Startup Sauna
30-40 companies inacceleration / year20 million Eurosraised30 students trainedwith internships
SLUSHEstablished as theleadingStart-Upevent in Europe
AaltoStart-upCenter80 companies inincubation/ 32 highgrowth
AaltoES
9000 communitymembers100 activistsAnnually 8000participates events
EIT Labs:• Digital• Climate• RawMaterials
Partnersin Europe
Entrepreneurship ecosystemVertical
Independentacceleratorfocusing onmedicaltechnologies
Aaltoes (Aalto UniversityEntrepreneurship Society)
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Startup Sauna Foundation
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Examples of sustainability startups
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Examples of sustainability startups
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Examples of sustainability startups
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Examples of sustainability startups
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Examples of sustainability startups
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Green campus hackathons
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Green campus hackathons
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Appcampus
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Appcampus / sustainability apps
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R&D collaboration programmes / sustainability /Energizing Urban Ecosystems
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R&D collaboration programmes / sustainability /Energizing Urban Ecosystems
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1. Description and visualization of the processes of smart city planning and development.2. Recognizing and understanding the roles of areas and user groups in sustainable serviceproduction and decision-making.3. Development of services and service architecture by service and experience design methods.4. Recognition and creation of innovative resources and the development of methods for resourcesharing and management.5. Analysis and development of new business logics and opportunities for value creation over thelife cycles of investments in the built environment.6. Openness, trust and genuine co-learning in an innovation ecosystem within the on-going trans-disciplinary program.The EUE project has shown that in knowledge intensive sustainable ecosystems require openinnovation platforms, open data, citizen inclusion and empowerment and crowdsourcing.
Thematic collaboration platforms
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Bionova
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Research hub for bio-economy
– Investment 55-70 M€– New building 23.500
sqm ready 2020.
• Three large anchortenants:
• Facilities for other bio-economy firms and Start-ups.
Bionova
Research hub for bio-economy
– Investment 55-70 M€– New building 23.500
sqm ready 2020.
• Three large anchortenants:
• Facilities for other bio-economy firms and Start-ups.
Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship /sustainable research business projects
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BiodustcombCarbon Capture Storage
Small Business Centre
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Talsinki Metropolitan Incubation
Aalto Start-Up Centre
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Aalto Start-Up Centre
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Rudanko+Kankkunen Architects
School as a Service
• One of the public highschools will be located incampus 8/2016
• School as a Service(SaaS) concept
• Half of the spacecompared to a typical cityhigh school– Shared use of under-
utilized research facilitieswith the university
– Pedagogical co-operation
Case Start-up Center
• New life to an old academicbuilding (23 500 sqm)
– High demand for industrialtype premises from smallcompanies and start-ups
– Makers’ spaces to supportprototyping and piloting
• Introduction of thematicaccelerators, Aalto’s start-upsocieties, supportingservices and corporations
• Modular building, emphasison flexibility
• Shared use of Aalto’s otherassets around campus
Success factors for university-corporate co-creation:
1. A systemic approach to creating regional innovation ecosystems based on theculture of open innovation and knowledge co-creation2. Experts with an entrepreneurial mindset and multidisciplinary skills3. A network of partners with diverse complementing competences4. A tradition of public-private-people partnerships and collaboration
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