Students, Entrepreneurship andStartups in Sustainable Developmentat Aalto University

Aalto University operates in a culturalcontext that has allowed strong openinnovation traditions to develop andflourish. This includes the work andinspiration of pioneers of IT such asLinus Torvalds with Linux, andMarten Mickos and Monty Wideniuswith MySQL.

The Aalto open innovation initiative

• explore societal challenges• examine research interests• address corporations’ and other organisations’ needs for bottom-up projects• create corporate projects based on new insights from research.

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society

Startup Sauna

StartupLife

Aalto Center forEntrepreneurship

Co-workingEnvironments

InternshipProgram

Commercialization &Business Development

OIH

Aalto Start-upCenter

Slush

University educationalprograms

Corporate-driven activities

University-operatedStudent-driven activities (part ofStart-up Sauna Foundation)

Student organization

Vertical

Start-up Center

Summer ofStart-ups

AccelerationPrograms

StartupSauna

AaltoVenturesProgram

ExecutiveEducation

MBA

EducationPrograms

MSc Program inEntrepreneurship

& Innovation

Vertical

ImpactIglu

xEdu

EIT BD Support

Spurring Entrepreneurship withrange of activities

Research & Education

CorporatepartnersComplementary

PartiesCoaches

SBC (Small Business Center)

Training for entrepreneursBusiness development services for smallbusinesses

Project Services

Around 200 innovation proposals/year-> 10-15 companies->20-30 patent applications

Aalto Ventures Program

Problem based learning program to foster entrepreneurialmindset and skills

Co-operation with Stanford

Startup Sauna

30-40 companies inacceleration / year20 million Eurosraised30 students trainedwith internships

SLUSHEstablished as theleadingStart-Upevent in Europe

AaltoStart-upCenter80 companies inincubation/ 32 highgrowth

AaltoES

9000 communitymembers100 activistsAnnually 8000participates events

EIT Labs:• Digital• Climate• RawMaterials

Partnersin Europe

Entrepreneurship ecosystemVertical

Independentacceleratorfocusing onmedicaltechnologies

Aaltoes (Aalto UniversityEntrepreneurship Society)

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Startup Sauna Foundation

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Examples of sustainability startups

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Examples of sustainability startups

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Examples of sustainability startups

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Examples of sustainability startups

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Examples of sustainability startups

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Green campus hackathons

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Green campus hackathons

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Appcampus

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Appcampus / sustainability apps

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R&D collaboration programmes / sustainability /Energizing Urban Ecosystems

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R&D collaboration programmes / sustainability /Energizing Urban Ecosystems

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1. Description and visualization of the processes of smart city planning and development.2. Recognizing and understanding the roles of areas and user groups in sustainable serviceproduction and decision-making.3. Development of services and service architecture by service and experience design methods.4. Recognition and creation of innovative resources and the development of methods for resourcesharing and management.5. Analysis and development of new business logics and opportunities for value creation over thelife cycles of investments in the built environment.6. Openness, trust and genuine co-learning in an innovation ecosystem within the on-going trans-disciplinary program.The EUE project has shown that in knowledge intensive sustainable ecosystems require openinnovation platforms, open data, citizen inclusion and empowerment and crowdsourcing.

Thematic collaboration platforms

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Bionova

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Research hub for bio-economy

– Investment 55-70 M€– New building 23.500

sqm ready 2020.

• Three large anchortenants:

• Facilities for other bio-economy firms and Start-ups.

Bionova

Research hub for bio-economy

– Investment 55-70 M€– New building 23.500

sqm ready 2020.

• Three large anchortenants:

• Facilities for other bio-economy firms and Start-ups.

Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship /sustainable research business projects

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BiodustcombCarbon Capture Storage

Small Business Centre

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Talsinki Metropolitan Incubation

Aalto Start-Up Centre

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Aalto Start-Up Centre

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Rudanko+Kankkunen Architects

School as a Service

• One of the public highschools will be located incampus 8/2016

• School as a Service(SaaS) concept

• Half of the spacecompared to a typical cityhigh school– Shared use of under-

utilized research facilitieswith the university

– Pedagogical co-operation

Case Start-up Center

• New life to an old academicbuilding (23 500 sqm)

– High demand for industrialtype premises from smallcompanies and start-ups

– Makers’ spaces to supportprototyping and piloting

• Introduction of thematicaccelerators, Aalto’s start-upsocieties, supportingservices and corporations

• Modular building, emphasison flexibility

• Shared use of Aalto’s otherassets around campus

Success factors for university-corporate co-creation:

1. A systemic approach to creating regional innovation ecosystems based on theculture of open innovation and knowledge co-creation2. Experts with an entrepreneurial mindset and multidisciplinary skills3. A network of partners with diverse complementing competences4. A tradition of public-private-people partnerships and collaboration

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