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Articles

Engagers’ granted the “Best PDW award” at this year’s 3E Conference
During the 3E Conference in Aarhus in May, some of us from Engage came out victorious, winning the “Best PDW award”. This was a remarkable achievement to celebrate the 10th year of the 3E Conference. For some members of the winning team, it was their first time attending the conference. 3E is an entrepreneurship education...
26th May 2023

What is an ecosystem within the innovation environment?
Earlier in May, we invited students and educators to the seminar: “Student-driven ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship”. This was an academic seminar where we explored the question: “How can we best utilize ecosystems for student innovation in formal entrepreneurship education?” The day was filled with lectures, discussions, and group work. By Pernille Svartveit Osmundsen The...
18th May 2023

“STUD-ENT” kick-off at The Mine – in collaboration with Innovation Norway
The deadline for the annual “STUD-ENT” application is approaching. With that in mind, Engage hosted an event in collaboration with Innovation Norway, where both students at NTNU and employees across different universities and colleges involved in innovation and entrepreneurship, were invited to learn more about the application process. By Nicole Monavari On the 24th of...
13th March 2023

Engager Roger Sørheim honoured as “Excellent Teaching Practitioner”
Professor Roger Sørheim was honoured and celebrated as a new Excellent Teaching Practitioner by NTNU. This is the first time a scholar at the department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management got this award. By Meike Siefkes The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) awards its scholars with this honour for their clear and...
25th January 2023
News
The status quo of entrepreneurship and innovation in different disciplines – new report from Engage
An important part of Engage’s vision is to spread entrepreneurship competence into different disciplines in higher education, so that philosophers, economists, nurses, social workers and engineers, to name a few, can see themselves as a part of the change they would like to see in the world. This is in line with the strategy of...
Educators
29th August 2023

Pop-up stores – a practical approach to university studies
The 24-28 October, 8 different student companies popped up in the common area of Nord University of Bodø. Anyone passing had the chance to purchase reflex totebags, winter kits, T-shirts, caps, bracelets, and iced coffee. The pop-up store founders were students of the new course Entrepreneurship and Value Creation, developed by Sølvi Solvoll, Trine Åsheim...

Book launch: REFRAMING THE CASE METHOD IN ENTREPRENEUSHIP EDUCATION: Cases from the Nordic Countries
November 28th at 5pm, Mo i Rana We are launching our book on how to educate students to gain an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset through the use of education cases from the Nordic countries. Are you interested in how stories and lessons from business and entrepreneurs become learning tools to give students important skills and...

Inspired to improve healthcare
Entrepreneurship education engaging students to improve healthcare! By Gunn-Berit Neergård, researcher at SFU Engage In august, the graduate students of nursing education at NTNU were invited to participate in a three-day innovation camp. The students were introduced to innovation, entrepreneurship, authentic challenges by industry actors and collaborative team work. The camp ended with a pitch...

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.
Educators
23rd May 2022

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
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