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SUMMER ACADEMY – ESTONIA
Creativity and ICT for new entrepreneurship
Tallinn
Business Incubator
Tallinn Estonia
Working Language
English
PROFILE
Are you interested in combining technology with design disciplines, perhaps to address social needs or to overcome challenges in either the traditional or creative sectors? Do you have ideas for new or improved products and services? Or inventive solutions on how these can be –better- designed? At the
Summer Academy in Tallinn you will work on your idea in a very hands-on way, using a goal driven practical approach based on the Lean Startup Methodology. You will build-as-you go, learn how to validate the customer problem and study topics such as business modeling, pitching and strategic
thinking about the value of your idea.
Expertise
Goal driven business development for technological and creative ventures.
Innovation themes
• Social innovation
• Service innovation
• Technology and meaning driven innovation
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Subjects
CREATIVITY
• Pitching
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• Business Modeling
• Finance
• Marketing and Communication
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
• knowledge of entrepreneurial, marketing and financial strategies necessary to start a company.
• knowledge of creative and innovation processes.
• basic understanding of technology trends in various contexts.
• Ability to communicate, negotiate and lead.
• Ability to validate the assumptions in the customer problem and the solution offered.
COGNITIVE SKILLS
• Ability to apply entrepreneurial and design thinking in innovation and business development processes.
• Ability to connect the use of ICT and creativity in the solving of (societal) problems.
• Ability to communicate, negotiate and lead.
PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
• Ability to perform on a professional level within an interdisciplinary team.
• Capability to identify and evaluate opportunities and risks and adapt to occurring needs and challenges.
• Ability to evaluate the actors in early-stage business community.
KEY- AND TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
• problem-solving skills and capability to turn ideas into action.
• capability to convincingly communicate concepts in a verbal and visual way to different audiences.
Candidates Curriculum
REQUIREMENTS
• Practice-based approach
• Two-weeks course
• 60 hrs in total
• ‘Build-as-you-go’
• ‘Build fast, fail fast’
USED DIDACTIC TOOLS |
NR. OF HRS |
| • Lectures | 2 |
| • Keynotes | 2 |
| • Workshops | 4,5 |
| • Team working sessions | 40 |
| • Mentoring / Coaching | 6 |
| • Pitch and presentations | 4 |
| • Networking | 3 |
| • Independent homework |
ROLES OF STAFF
• Experts / Professionals from the field
• Mentors / Coaches
• Representative Incubators
• Pitch Jury
Location
Veerenni 24, Tallinn
Estonia
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