PSU's Sparkplug program provides $500 grants to student groups to fund crowd-sourced funding campaigns for their ideas on platforms like Kickstarter. This helps students build prototypes, create marketing videos, and get web hosting space. One successful group, SmartPurse, used their grant for advertising and raised over $5k on IndieGoGo to further develop their flexible purse design. The Sparkplug program aims to ignite student ideas and move them towards commercialization through collaboration across disciplines.
Learn how we make our students job-ready before graduating. Hear from professionals and academic staff about the importance of embedding in workplace skills and industry experience into a degree.
Griekse onderwijspartner op bezoek bij Centrum Duurzaamduurzame verhalen
Op welke manier gaan we de bestaande woningvoorraad verduurzamen? ‘In Europees verband wisselen we ervaringen hierover met elkaar uit in het kader van Old Buildings New Technologies’, vertelt Jan van der Weijde van ROC Friese Poort. In de week van 19 maart 2018 volgde een Griekse onderwijspartner een duurzame projectweek bij ROC Friese Poort met onder andere een bezoek aan Centrum Duurzaam van ROC Friese Poort.
Klik door voor meer informatie:
http://www.centrumduurzaamfriesland.nl/nieuws/griekse-onderwijspartner-op-bezoek-centrum-duurzaam/
FITT Toolbox: Master Class in Entrepreneurial SkillsFITT
iStep is a 3 day inhouse master class training in enterprenuerial skills aimed at researchers and staff member of business partners of IBBT. iStep provides participants with practical insights and tools into the making of a technology-based start up: from R&D to business idea, IPR, human resources, market assessment and approach, financial plan and valuation, sources of finance and launch of the company.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
The traditional model of graduating college and finding a job has been turned upside down. Are today's universities preparing students for lifelong learning and to succeed in the workplace? Academic incubators have emerged as a model that may help universities better prepare students for the job market by allowing garage innovation to prosper in a university environment.
our IMI powerpoint project entry for the award of best initiative of a hotel management school for 2008 hospitality award.
Our entry is a whole term at our international university centre focused on Creativity & Innovation for all stakeholders
Within the slides we try to describe all the various (many of them still ongoing) activities, their positive outcomes for student/staff/institute
the core themes are in the need for creative solutions in the industry, leadership development, new solutions and innovation in society (diversity, inclusivity and technology)
Since this particular term is still ongoing (2008) we have setup a project specific wiki where we constantely update the individual projects through text and images (done on some pages by students, others by staff)
This WIKI can be seen and used by anyone (other schools for example) as a kind of benchmark for similar ideas at any other school.
check http://creatimi.wikispaces.com/
Learn how we make our students job-ready before graduating. Hear from professionals and academic staff about the importance of embedding in workplace skills and industry experience into a degree.
Griekse onderwijspartner op bezoek bij Centrum Duurzaamduurzame verhalen
Op welke manier gaan we de bestaande woningvoorraad verduurzamen? ‘In Europees verband wisselen we ervaringen hierover met elkaar uit in het kader van Old Buildings New Technologies’, vertelt Jan van der Weijde van ROC Friese Poort. In de week van 19 maart 2018 volgde een Griekse onderwijspartner een duurzame projectweek bij ROC Friese Poort met onder andere een bezoek aan Centrum Duurzaam van ROC Friese Poort.
Klik door voor meer informatie:
http://www.centrumduurzaamfriesland.nl/nieuws/griekse-onderwijspartner-op-bezoek-centrum-duurzaam/
FITT Toolbox: Master Class in Entrepreneurial SkillsFITT
iStep is a 3 day inhouse master class training in enterprenuerial skills aimed at researchers and staff member of business partners of IBBT. iStep provides participants with practical insights and tools into the making of a technology-based start up: from R&D to business idea, IPR, human resources, market assessment and approach, financial plan and valuation, sources of finance and launch of the company.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
The traditional model of graduating college and finding a job has been turned upside down. Are today's universities preparing students for lifelong learning and to succeed in the workplace? Academic incubators have emerged as a model that may help universities better prepare students for the job market by allowing garage innovation to prosper in a university environment.
our IMI powerpoint project entry for the award of best initiative of a hotel management school for 2008 hospitality award.
Our entry is a whole term at our international university centre focused on Creativity & Innovation for all stakeholders
Within the slides we try to describe all the various (many of them still ongoing) activities, their positive outcomes for student/staff/institute
the core themes are in the need for creative solutions in the industry, leadership development, new solutions and innovation in society (diversity, inclusivity and technology)
Since this particular term is still ongoing (2008) we have setup a project specific wiki where we constantely update the individual projects through text and images (done on some pages by students, others by staff)
This WIKI can be seen and used by anyone (other schools for example) as a kind of benchmark for similar ideas at any other school.
check http://creatimi.wikispaces.com/
The need to stay up to date on the latest developments in your field of study has never been more urgent. With increasing competition, stagnant unemployment and expected budget shortfalls every professional must be able to prove their value to the organization. The good news is that opportunities for learning are abundant and new advances in technology have produced a variety of options suitable for any budget or schedule. Still, resources are scarce and the pressure to make the most of every moment can derail many attempts to explore new learning experiences. This session will address steps you can take to get the most return out of your investment of time and money in professional development activities.
Coordinating an industry advisory board for an entrepreneurship courseTodd Warren
Presented at NCIIA Open 2013 on how we recruit and cooridnate an industry advisory board for NUvention Web, a web entrepreneurship course taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL
New York Bestseller Jake Knapp’s book, Sprint, explores how companies and teams can replicate Google’s sprint process to solve a problem within five days.
So how does a design sprint actually work, and how can you use a sprint to devise effective solutions in such a short period of time?
Enhance your productivity through design sprints, you’ll learn:
- What is a Design Sprint
- Design sprint case studies and success stories
- How you can run a design sprint effectively
1. PSU Sparkplug
Igniting student ideas
Matthew Poese and Liz Kisenwether
Penn State University’s Engineering Leadership and
Entrepreneurship Programs
2. Problem
• Student groups have good ideas
– rarely move them forward
– meager resources for parts to build prototypes
Solution
• A funding platform to capitalize an idea
– students articulate a value proposition
– students enlist stakeholders
– stakeholders back the project
• typical contribution is $5-$50
3. SparkPlug
• Give a $500 grant to student groups
– groups mount a crowd-sourced funding drive
• Kickstarter, Indie-Go-Go
– faculty advisor keeps them on track
– use the grant to:
• buy materials for prototype
• shoot a video
• buy advertisement
• get web hosting space
4. Application
• Short, simple
• Evaluate the value proposition
– is it suited for Kickstarter or similar?
– does it appear to have a market?
• ask for a quick market survey as first step
• Evaluate the functionality
– Students have big dreams
– Try to fund reasonable pieces of the dream
5. SmartPurse
• An active indiegogo campaign
• Flex-funding
– not an all-or-nothing deal
– Goal is $5k
• Established new relationship
with a manufacturer near PSU
• Used her SparkPlug grant to
buy advertising in Vogue to
coincide with indiegogo
campaign
• Dreams of raising $100k with
the campaign
• From an educational
standpoint, already a success
6. PSU Ecosystem
Sequence of courses that focus on idea
generation/evaluation
Get market reaction using SparkPlug
Form a company in Lion Launch Pad
7. Other Connectivity
• SparkPlug team sponsors an engineering
senior design team
– Business students have good idea
– hack a prototype
– use engineering senior design team to:
• clean up prototype
• create a design-for-manufacture
9. What we’ve seen
• Seeding student ideas leads to:
– Increased collaboration between students of
many disciplines
– Increased self-efficacy
– Like an internship:
• experience non-academic lessons
– Order fulfillment
– Customer service
– Inventory management
– Production problems