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Description: TURN YOUR PRODUCT INTO A SUSTAINABLE COMPANY With a passion for innovation we help entrepreneurs transform their ideas into sustainable companies by funding them in a seed stage and by coaching them in the growth process. We aim for the long run rather than a fast monetary return. Some say we cut through the funding hype and work hard to give your business a sustainable future. In order to do that, we have an authentic, people-focused approach. We keep our eye on the business and offer tailor made support for your business. The CoFoundry operates from the center of a rich ecosystem out of which the right knowledge and skills are made available for entrepreneurs.
Publish Date: 20-April-17
Description: Succesful products and services with OULLabs Involve the end user in your development process to help you achieve success! OULLabs is a convenient one-stop-shop for target-group-specific test users, versatile test environments and specialist services to support the development of your product or service. Be a forerunner and develop your product or service in innovative ways in co-operation with users. This may consist of a single, one-time test or may be continuous evaluation at the different stages of the design process.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: NewCo Helsinki service entity was established by the City of Helsinki in 2014. NewCo Helsinki is a marketing and brand name for the entity, services are operated by the City of Helsinki and Helsinki Enterprise Agency. Business advisory service was started already in 1992. We offer a wide range of entrepreneurship support services from basic entrepreneurship education to how to create a global high potential growth company. Our objective is to make the first steps of entrepreneurship easier, lower the obstacles related to entrepreneurship and decrease the risk of failure.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: TURNING INVENTIONS INTO WINNING BUSINESSES In order to turn great inventions into winning businesses it is crucial to dive into the details. Understanding of which are necessities, critical requirements to compete versus real competitive advantages requires thorough thinking, systematic approach and straight forward execution. Newe has developed an business assessment model to verify invention, of any kind. During the verification process inventions are not only analyzed but also further developed. Part of the assessment is a competitive landscape, goto market and team assements. ACCELERATION ASSESSMENT With its strategic partners Newe can provide full acceleration service package. It may vary from Business Development work to all relevant company business services with an operative CxO role. Based on the needs of our customers and market. Newe’s strategic partners are top tier professionals in their own field, from recognized world class designers into to team coaches that can make difference. With this uniques combination Newe can provide balanced and timed services to all its group companies.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: xEdu is the Nordic business accelerator for start-ups creating transformative learning solutions with pedagogical impact. From product development to market entry and internationalization, we offer broad assistance including coaching and mentoring, real-life testing environments for research and development. We provide a global partner network of recognized leaders in education business for our startups.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: We provide startups with hands-on experience in innovative web-based services to achieve rapid growth and success internationally. Together with the entrepreneurs we develop business models for products and services, acquire new customers and raise funding during an acceleration period of 6 to 24 months. Our portfolio consists of companies both in Finland and in Silicon Valley. The acceleration period focuses on actions that can make your product or service grow and internationalize faster. Our network in Finland and the Silicon Valley will work side by side with the entrepreneurs typically assisting in recruiting key personnel and raising further funding rounds. The acceleration model is always tailored to fit the needs of your startup. We have wealth of hands-on experience in product development online marketing, customer acquisition and fund raising.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: Nestholma Accelerator helps startups and large corporations to work and build businesses together Support for close collaboration between startups and corporations Nestholma helps large corporations and startups to work together. There are a lot of great opportunities, such as match-making events or conferences, where startups and corporations can meet and discuss. Still, it is very hard to actually start working together. It's never quite the right fit, you don't know each other, ways of working don't match etc. Nestholma's accelerator programs give both the startup and the corporation a unique opportunity to learn from each other and figure out if and how the business partnership makes sense. The accelerator program is a business program that aims to find new business opportunities. It is always driven by the business leadership, but it typically involves people from all over the corporation from customer care or marketing to technology development and business management.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: Startup Sauna is an accelerator for top-notch tech teams focusing on finding the right product-market fit and go-to-market strategy. We take no equity and our program is free. Teams can select from a grant of 1000€ or free accommodation during the program. We've been around since 2010 and are the leading accelerator in the Nordics, Baltics, Eastern Europe and Russia.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: We help startups and enterprises accelerate health & happiness ideas. We all want increased health and a happier life. We believe that services based on innovation in healthcare, wellness, big data in health, and the quantified self are those with the most immediate impact on how we live today. Be part of our health innovation network Vertical is constantly looking to support and collaborate with young, trend-setting entrepreneurs and teams to evolve their health, wellness, wearable and smart home ideas for increased health and a happier life.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: Turbiini Startup Accelerator supports new startups in Vantaa and is actively searching for new companies to offer innovation services. Our goal is to help business ideas evolve into teams and startups. We are located in Vantaa Technopolis, sharing premises with Research and Development unit of Metropolia Electria. We have a close cooperation with Helsinki NewCo Accelerator, Aalto Startup Center and Spinno. We offer newly establishing tech-savvy businesses and teams coworking space, telecommunications, sparring and individualized advice to get your business running. If you are dreaming about your own company, if you are still unsure about your business idea, the next steps to take, or the best possible business partners, contact us – we will help you succeed.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: Gorilla Ventures is the most active seed stage investor for Finnish startups. We invest in 10-15 early stage Finnish startups every year. Beyond just providing capital, we advise startups in ”high impact” situations, such as product/market fit, strategy, funding, go-to-market, customer development, international expansion and other fundamental issues to make the best strategic choices. We are the Most Inspiring Business Angel Fund and Nordics first Angel fund.
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: THE NORDIC VENTURE BUILDER STARTUP ACCELERATION - FUNDING - WORK SPACE - CORPORATE VENTURE AND INNOVATION PROGRAMS
Publish Date: 17-April-17
Description: This exciting Master’s course will provide you with the knowledge and understanding to develop and launch new products and services, manage small enterprises and generate new ideas and opportunities. It will equip you in your future career to create an entrepreneurial environment that will facilitate innovation and stimulate growth. This is the ideal course if you are seeking a career where innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity are defining key features. Roles such as these can be found in large organisations, in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and in start-up businesses.
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: Innovation Management Course at Umea University - School of Business and Economics
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: MA Innovation Management recognises the growing demand for creative, collaborative practitioners with an understanding of business, design and culture, whose role is not to deliver products or services but rather to identify and verify opportunity. Where MBA and design management programmes analyse problems, this postgraduate course deploys connective and creative approaches to managing innovation in order to synthesise opportunities. ABOUT THE COURSEMA Innovation Management is a new postgraduate course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. It aims to bring together open-minded individuals from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds in order to promote new ways of thinking and doing that encourages creative collaborations in the pursuit of innovation. Our focus is on developing strategic collaborative practitioners who can identify, and develop, innovative business and public sector opportunities. MA Innovation Management will explore innovation in relation to services, products and user experiences. It will be delivered through a range of different learning experiences, from the traditional to the experimental, from student- led to industry-linked, so that students can produce synergistic and co-operative approaches to problem-solving, risk-management and opportunity development. Graduates of MA Innovation Management will be able to identify and deliver creativity and innovation within both a lifestyle and business context. They will be able to apply innovation tools and practices, research and identify which creative vectors are suitable for a given scenario and communicate such opportunities in a compelling and engaging way. MA Innovation Management graduates will be highly attractive to potential employers in business, the creative industries or policy makers who wish to embrace 360- degree innovation. This postgraduate course will help graduates develop careers in areas like innovation research, strategy and business development and brand/product management.
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: This course provides a series of conceptual tools for profiting from innovation. We will use a combination of lectures and case studies to explore and apply theoretical frameworks in a practical, business policy context.
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: This course presents key concepts, principles and the multidimensional nature of innovation management. Students are introduced to the frameworks, practices, processes and tools for managing innovation. Syllabus elements are: Introduction; motivation; definitions – Innovation as a process - Innovative organisations - Innovation strategy - Sources of innovation - Prioritisation and selection - Innovation Networks - Design-driven innovation - Innovation business models- Open Innovation- Blue Ocean Innovation Strategy - Oslo Manual Definisitons of Innovation - Doblin Model of Innovation - The Stanford D-School Model of Innovation - Creativity
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: How to grow while staying true to your vision and values The Vision2Value EYnovation bootcamp offers start- and scale-ups a hands-on methodology as well as a learning and sharing platform to integrate commitments linked to your vision into your business model to increase added value. The bootcamp will provide you with tested and validated tools to take your start-up to the next level. This bootcamp combines a number of workshops on vision and values, business modeling, lean start-up, circular economy, impact and added value. Each bootcamp session will be led by renowned experts and complemented with guest speakers who will present their real life cases and lessons learned.
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: You innovate. We help you finance it. The Europe 2020 Strategy aims to make the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economic centre in the world and to achieve the target of investing 3% of the GDP in R&D. Therefore, stimulating R&D is a clear priority in Europe and therefore also in Belgium. Our goal The identification and justification of the R&D environment of projects is in our DNA. In order to finance the R&D from and for Belgian companies, we map your scientific environment globally and locally, no matter where the industries, production lines, the R&D centres or patents are. By improving Innovation Performance, we make sure: - To maximise the use of available public finance support incentives, tax credits and fiscal deductions for innovation; - To promote participation in publicly co-funded collaborative R&D projects: public/private partnerships for SME’s/large corporations; - To enhance a company’s capacity to invest in R&D by the use of external financing. What we do The main incentive possibilities for innovation in Belgium is depending on various levels of implementation and are subject to complex conditions & procedures as well as frequent legislative changes. We support you with four types of incentives: Financing innovation incentives coordination Enhanced deduction for investments in R&D Partial exemption on wage withholding tax for researchers Grants & subsidies Patent Income Deduction Innovation assessment & audit services Assessment & Potential estimation Audit & Safety Check The identification of potential performance optimisation goes hand in hand with the creation of needed inquiries to obtain those particular financial resources.
Publish Date: 14-April-17
Description: Interreg V Flanders-The Netherlands The Interreg V-program between the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium) is carried out on the territory of (parts of) the five Flemish provinces and the three southern provinces of The Netherlands. In Flanders these are the provinces Antwerp, East-Flanders, Flemish-Brabant, Limburg and West-Flanders. For the Netherlands this includes the provinces of Limburg, North-Brabant and Zeeland. These partners, together with the Flanders Innovation & Entrepeneurship Agency and the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs drew up the ‘Cooperation Program Interreg V A Flanders-The Netherlands' for the 2014-2020 program period.
Publish Date: 06-April-17