Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

In order for the European Union to be successful in implementing and expanding open innovation as one of the main drivers of its socio-economic growth higher education institutions (HEI) must be able to produce independent, creative, entrepreneurial individuals, who understand inter- and multidisciplinary challenges of the socio-economic environment and as a result can contribute to open innovation. HEIs also have to develop action learning methods that bring the social/economic problems into the classroom along with the relevant stakeholders to facilitate co-learning and co-creation between students, professors and the stakeholders (businesses, policy makers, society) with a particular problem. Students and academics have to learn, perform research and co-create with busniess as well as with government and the society in accordance with the open university concept and the Triple Helix model. EU’s success in the global competition is also heavily dependent on the ability of the economy to produce innovative enterprises with high growth potential that can give stimulus to the actors of the socio-economic environment; can stabilize the labour market; can strengthen the small and medium size enterprise sector and can creatively work with the HEIs. Creating a common framework and a unified entrepreneurial ecosystem across the EU that includes HEIs as the engine of open innovation, inequality among the regions of the EU can be decreased.
The main objective of the NetMIB is to facilitate the efficient cooperation between the public – private – governmental sphere of the economy in order to enable socio-economic growth via the development of entrepreneurial skills, capacity of university students. This general objective involves the improvement of the quality and relevance of the teaching methodology at the participating HEIs to develop entrepreneurial capacity of university students.
The project consortium consists of two research institutions, three HEIs, one being an overseas expert in the field and one university lead sceince park as members. The consortium is further supported by associated partners who are part of the knwoledge triangle at each local ecosystem and will benefit from the improvement of the local and the establisment of a transnational entrepreneurial ecosystem. The research insituttions have conducted extensive research activities in the field of educational methodologies, while the HEIs have been implementing state of the art entrepreneurship educations tools and methods to enhance socio-economic benefit of their activities.
The methodology used in the project’s implementation phase is based on the following 5 steps process
1) Investigation/research (literature review, interviews and questionnaire survey) on the 2 main domains tackled by the project (entrepreneurship education/incubation practices and Governance/rewarding systems) with the aim to give a solid scientific and operational foundation to project operations.
2) Design & development. Starting from the results of the previous phase (best practices) an entrepreneurship and virtual incubation program was designed and the related teaching materials was developed along with a set of recommendations to anchor the program into the HEIs structure and regional environment. An ICT platform to support the virtual incubation program and to connect students/teachers/coaches participating from the different partner countries has been set up.
3) Capacity building. Academic trainers from the partner organizations was selected and a capacity building session was organized to prepare them to deliver the program making use of the teaching materials (Program Toolkit) and of the ICT platform developed.
4) Testing & fine–tuning. Partners (UTA, UP, Espaitec) has been asked to organise a pilot of the program by selecting each of them a specific block to be tested.
5) Disseminating & Exploiting.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297507 Eur

Project Coordinator

PECSI TUDOMANYEGYETEM – UNIVERSITY OF PECS & Country: HU

Project Partners

• KENTRO EREVNON NOTIOANATOLIKIS EVROPIS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
• TAMPEREEN YLIOPISTO
• North Carolina State University
• COTEC – FONDAZIONE PER L’INNOVAZIONE TECNOLOGICA
• FUNDACIO GENERAL DE LA UNIVERSITAT JAUME I FUNDACIO DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA