Category: Research
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Course: Entrepreneurship education for better learning
This course will inspire you to make your students develop the ability to make the change they wish to see in the world!
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The importance of innovation in healthcare
How can we equip nursing students with the right tools to engage in innovation in healthcare? Engage recently hosted a seminar with this specific aim.
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Bli med på Babson Student Challenge 2021
Er du student ved NTNU eller Nord Universitet med en forretningsidé som bidrar til et av FNs bærekraftsmål? Send inn ideen din, og bli med på Babson Student Challenge!
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Sustainable industrial vegetable production in the north?
Over the course of three weeks, a group of students investigated the possibility of operating a sustainable industrial vegetable production in Mo Industrial Park.
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Empowering students to tackle complex problems
How can we empower students to tackle complex problems? At Engage we believe having a basic knowledge of Design Thinking is essential.
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Sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practice in new international book
Engage contributes to a new book by sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practices in three chapters highlighting the CERN Screening Week, the Blast off Week at Nord and the Venture Creation Program at NTNU.
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The first year of Spark* Chalmers
About a year ago we could announce that the concept of Spark* went international to the Chalmers University of Technology. Here’s where they are one year later.
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Five more years for Engage
Engage has become a world-leading centre for entrepreneurship education and has recently been granted an extended period of 5 years. What have we done and what is the future plans of Engage?
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Five key elements of Entrepreneurship Education – Engage’s Educational Framework
We all want to form our students to be able to handle situations they may face in their professional life. At Engage, we focus on developing our students’ Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset for our students to handle changing circumstances in an uncertain world. But how can we stimulate these aims through our education?
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Educating Entrepreneurial Researchers
The course “Research-based Innovation” aims to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of PhD students to increase their engagement with practitioners.
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Previous Online Events – Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education
Selected participants are pitching their paper, based on the theme Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education, followed by a digital roundtable discussion.
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Opportunity evaluation in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship
What kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes do entrepreneurs need for understanding the social and ecological aspects of an business opportunity?
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EE Explore: Exploring entrepreneurship educations digitally
EE Explore is a collaboration between Engage and ECSB – European Council for small Business and Entrepreneurship – a virtual platform for research interaction globally about Entrepreneurship Education. We arrange a series of online events about the topic, towards ECSB’s 3E conference in May 2021.
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Creating new opportunities
For the second time, NTNU and Engage offers an online course in entrepreneurship and business development. The course was held for the first time this summer and the experiences have been great.
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Creativity – Can it be taught? And why is it important?
Creativity is a sought-after quality, both at the private level and in working life. What is it? Can it be taught? And why is it important?
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Reflection as a practice in Entrepreneurship Education
Reflective thinking could help our students learn more by connecting their experiences with theory and incorporate their learning into future tasks. Why and how can we integrate reflective thinking into our educational activities?
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Trondheim Slush’D 2021: From Startup To Scaleup
Earlier this year, we in the Trondheim Slush’D team set out on the task of identifying the challenges Norwegian Entrepreneurs face, in hope of singling out a concrete problem, an area to target and address.
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How to become an entrepreneur in a week
This book is written for these teachers, program managers and university administrators. By reading this book, they will learn how eleven other European universities decided to solve this task and learn from their experiences.
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Engage Talk Recap: Entrepreneurship and gender
Maiken Nilsen Stensaker and Gry Alsos from Engage address an important theme, entrepreneurship and gender. Together with former entrepreneur Anita Skog from Innovation Norway and entrepreneur Lisbeth Bjerva, they discuss what it looks like today and whether we are on the right track.
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Skapverdi.no – A digital course in Entrepreneurship and Business Development
In the summer of 2020, NTNU will offer an online course in entrepreneurship and business development for laid-off and partially laid-off workers. Read more about it and apply here.
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Engage Talk Recap: Becoming a student entrepreneur
In this Engage Talk we talked about the benefits and opportunities of realizing your business idea while still being a student. Read our recap here.
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The expansion of Spark*
During the past two years Spark* has expanded with units at Nord University and Chalmers University of Technology. Now even more students have the opportunity to pursue their business ideas with help from other students with startup experience.
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Virtual teams – A recap of last weeks Engage talk
Mette Mari Wold Johnsen had a talk with Sigrid Westad Brandshaug, Maiken Spjelkevik and Stina Kånhoff about virtual teams and how they can succeed in our latest Engage Talk.
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Working for more women in entrepreneurship
The main goal for Kvinneprosjektet is to show female students the opportunities within entrepreneurship and inspire them to pursue an entrepreneurial career, regardless of discipline or background.
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Engage Talks – digital concept from Engage
Engage talk is new concept on Facebook that Engage is trying out. The concept is a digital series in the field of entrepreneurship where we highlight current topics that can be useful for professionals, experts and businesses. The goal is to connect these different actors.
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Nine start-ups at NTNU receive STUD-ENT
Every year the Norwegian Government, through the Norwegian Research Council (NRC), hand out grants of 1 million NOK each.
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How 3D-printers can help fight the pandemic
In the end of March 2020, the Norwegian health care system expressed that they lacked enormous amounts of protective equipment as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Balance in Modern Entrepreneurship Education
In modern entrepreneurship education, more and more examples of active students and authentic learning occur. Students are no longer being a passive audience, reading about entrepreneurship.
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Engage about challenges and opportunities in an uncertain time
The current COVID-19 pandemic situation has turned life as we know it upside down. We asked the management of Engage how it affects their work and the future role of Engage Centre.
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Entrepreneurship is the ability to turn ideas into action
Innovation and entrepreneurship can be explored and practiced in many different ways. Therefore, we asked three of the brilliant minds at Engage to tell us how they work with innovation and entrepreneurship.


