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Entrepreneurship for improved teaching – intensive UNIPED-module in June and September
Entrepreneurship is a “hot topic” in higher education and is to be implemented in a wide range of disciplines in the time ahead. Are you one of those who must, should or want to learn more about entrepreneurship? This module is for you.
23rd May 2022

How come the great performance at StageTwo for NTNU start-ups?
In the recent student start-up contest StageTwo in Berlin, start-ups from NTNU went all the way to the top in strong competition from other start-ups from all over Europe.
1st December 2021

How entrepreneurial methods can support student teams to work with sustainable innovation.
An example of how student teams can be encouraged and supported to act, interact, challenge, embrace and reflect while working to solve problems related to sustainability issues.
21st June 2021

VCP Forum: innovative teaching through the pandemic
What is the topic that can connect 35 educators, from 18 teaching institutions, across five different continents, into one zoom call? The answer is Venture Creation Programs, also known as VCP.
16th April 2021
News

SUPER-Linked; The future of education
- We believe that by incorporating real business problems in education it will better prepare the students for working life and give them a better understanding of how their field is used in business context

How startups can strategically influence legitimacy-building
Legitimacy is not static, it is developed through a process. Startups can influence this process, which means that they can be strategic about how they build legitimacy.

Can we evaluate entrepreneurship education?
Entrepreneurship education is too complex to only rely on one outcome measure. It is time to rethink our view on assessment. By Torgeir Aadland, Co-director Engage and Associate Professor, NTNU The popularity of action-based, authentic and self-directed entrepreneurship education is prominent in many educational systems around the world today. Some entrepreneurship education implements and utilises...

Students as educators – Learning through mentoring
The latest study published by Engage showed that valuable learning can happen when students hold the role of educators in student-active and student-led initiatives, such as Spark NTNU.

The value of entrepreneurial nurses
It is important that nurses learn to be entrepreneurial, because they are the ones who discover important problem areas in their work and have the knowledge needed to solve them. But how do nurses become entrepreneurial?

The 3E Conference 2021
In the spring of 2020, entrepreneurship education had to move online. We now have to ask - what does the ‘new’ entrepreneurship education look like?
Exercises

Entering the War Room
Entrepreneurs need to make decisions fast, in an unknown environment, without knowing all the answers. This is a group exercise simulating a board meeting where students are forced to make decisions together. If the board doesn’t give clear guidelines, what will the management do?
17th November 2020

Fast-track problem-based idea creation
To come up with good ideas, we need to understand the problem we'd like solve. This exercise is a fast-paced idea creation process, where developing a good problem understanding is the core and starting point.
17th November 2020

The Green Thing
Introduce your students to idea creation and business model development using the Business Model Canvas, while you stay in control and guide them past common misconceptions with the Canvas.
16th December 2020

Relevante aktører og verdiskapning
Hvilke aktører kan være interessert i og få verdi fra prosjektene dere jobber med? En metode for å hjelpe studentene med å kartlegge interessenter for et problem eller en idé.
16th December 2020