The document advertises sessions at the European Innovation Academy in Estonia in July 2013. The sessions are aimed at innovators, entrepreneurs, and those seeking venture capital funding. Key topics covered include innovation management, creativity, entrepreneurship skills, and competing with business models. Sessions include speed networking between innovators, team-building exercises, pitching ideas to investors, and challenges like the James Bond Innovation Challenge to rapidly prototype solutions. The document emphasizes that failure is an important part of innovation and should not be feared, as failing allows for learning and improving ideas.

1. Innovation and Failure
Alar Kolk
President, European Innovation Academy
http://www.innovationacademy4u.com

2. July 2013 in Estonia
http://www.innovationacademy4u.com

3. European Innovation Academy Sessions:
• Innovators’ Speed Date
• Team Marriage
• Entrepreneurs’ Failure Pitching
• James Bond Innovation Challenge
• Star Trek Technology Lab
• Pitching for Venture Capitalists
• Hands on Innovation Lab
Key topics in the course: • Lego Lab Prototyping
• Innovation Management • Entrepreneur Live Kitchen
and Process
• Corporate and Technology Strategy
• New Product-Service Development
• Creativity and Innovation Culture
• Entrepreneurship Spirit and Skills
• High Tech Products Marketing
• Management of IPR
• Business Model Design
• Competitive Forces
• Competing with Business Models

4. „Failure is an
event not a
person”.

5. Why 90% of
new products
and services
fail…
…and You need to practice
Innovators’ Failure
Pitching!!!
Challenge Yourself @ European Innovation Academy!

6. Fail fast.
Fail cheap.
Fail early.
Go out to fail.
Follow The Innovation F-word!

8. James Bond Innovation Challenge
• Rapid prototyping
• Bullet speed problem solving
• Master of high tech
• Rival your competitors
• Smooth operator & networker
Challenge Yourself @ European Innovation Academy Sessions!

9. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin
again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

14. Bruce Lee - "Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low
aim, is the crime.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

15. The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim
is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and
we reach it. Michelangelo

16. http://www.innovationacademy4u.com

17. Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to
be about more than making money. Richard Branson

19. July 2013 in Estonia
http://www.innovationacademy4u.com