Founders Alliance IMSE 2014

Purpose and goal

The purpose of the meeting the project is to encourage students and entrepreneurs to innovate in the entrepreneurs companies and in the environment that the students of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE ), KTH and Södertörn in Stockholm are living in that also constitutes a market where there is a need for innovations that may be specific or identifiable early there. A highly qualified team were coaching the entrepreneurs and students in innovation and stimulated with inspiration and knowledge in an unique tailormaid innovation process for this meeting project.

Results and expected effects

Founders Alliance participating in the meeting, the project combines three great things: - Inspire students to identify needs of the basis of the entrepreneurs and their business environment - Assist entrepreneurs in Founders Alliance to create innovations through giving them access to students´ environment , where students are ´ gatekeepers ´ - Get students to practice entrepreneurship in a real situation led by professionals. The Meeting project resulted in innovations and better solutions. We expect a result in at least 3 applications to programs supporting innovation.

Approach and implementation

We encouraged the students at HHS before projects start with a practice week 31/3 - 4/4 in the entrepreneurs companie , where the student is asked to identify needs based on the world around the students linked to the entrepreneurs businesses. Within IMSE 2014, we then performed three successful workshops Workshop 1 22/4 2014 Inspiration lecture . Innovation Brainstorming with priorities. Workshop 2 10/5 2014 Innovation Business Model Generation ( Strategyzer.com ). Workshop 3 31/5 2014 Innovation Report & Feedback