Tag: Sustainability
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The Prince Daniel Fellowship visits Trondheim´s innovation environment
By Nicole Linnéa Monavari The Prince Daniel Fellowship is an organization which consists of a partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences(IVA) and the H.K.H Prince Daniel of Sweden. The main purpose of the partnership is to inspire young people towards entrepreneurship and encourage them to consider the path to start their own…
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NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has been giving superpowers to students for 20 years
By Pernille Svartveit Osmundsen The days were celebrated with speeches, workshops, annual acid test presentations, inspirational talks, sofa chats, food and a banquet. Former students at NSE came from all over Norway to take part in the celebration and to get even more professional input from the innovation environment that grows and grows every year.…
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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.
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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…
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Start Sirkulær 2023 – engaging students to focus on circular economy
February 16th to 17th Start Sirkulær 2023 was arranged by Start NTNU and Engage. With the subtitle: “An entrepreneurial journey within the circular economy”, that was exactly what was intended for the participants. The goal was to inspire and engage the students at NTNU to work further with innovation and entrepreneurship within the circular economy.
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“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.
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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.
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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…
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Kelpinor receives one million NOK from Norinnova and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The NTNU-based start-up company Kelpinor has been awarded one million NOK, after winning the “People’s Prize” and the “Jury’s Innovation Prize” during the accelerator program Arctic Ignite, under the auspices of Norinnova. Ten other entrepreneurial companies from Northern Norway also took part in the competition, and the development grants were awarded on behalf of the…
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Kompetanse for endring: Bli en tryggere og fremtidsrettet underviser
Hvordan kan vi som undervisere ved Nord universitet bidra til å utdanne robuste, kreative og fremtidsrettede studenter? Svaret starter med oss selv!
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Intraprenørskap i helsevesenet – nytt EVU-tilbud
Videreutdanning for helsepersonell med ambisjoner om endring. Bidra til å forbedre helsetjenestene – uten å bytte jobb!
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EiT Innovation Awards – A glimpse of NTNU students’ unique ability to innovate
The very first EiT Innovation Awards was a measure to pass on the value the students contribute to EiT.
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Innovation in gaming happens whether we like it or not!
Gaming Innovation Chapter 2 at NTNU shows students the possibilities that exist within gaming and how important innovation in gaming is for all of us.
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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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1-2-3(4) Pitch! The Business Simulator engages women in entrepreneurship
«Don’t dream about your dream job, create it!», the slogan for Boost Henne is an accurate description for their biggest annual event, the Business Simulator.
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Circuses and innovation have more in common than you thought
The Innovation days have become an annual event at NTNU, and this year the rich innovation environment was reflected in a circus themed event.
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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…
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“Perhaps the best collection of pitches I have seen at NTNU!”
For the third consecutive year, we had the privilege of hosting the NTNU Student Investor Day. Thanks to our collaboration with Sparebank 1 SMN, StartupTRD, and 6AM Accelerator, we successfully organized an event where the future of Norwegian innovation had the unique opportunity to connect with investors and gain valuable insights.
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The future innovators through student volunteering?
Innovative solutions and businesses are central to a welfare society, and to make it happen in the future today’s students have to work up own innovation competence. Unfortunately these are skills that are not necessarily is emphasized developed during it formal course of study. By Ingrid Berg Sivertsen, Dag Håkon Haneberg and Sølvi Solvoll. Our…
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NTNU Student Investor Day: 12 May 2023
Engage and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship announces this year’s event the 29th of April. One lucky winner will also be invited to join Stage Two, the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning out of leading European universities.
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Norwegian forum for entrepreneurship in higher education reinvented!
This year’s seminar-themes: – Student-run ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship (for educators and researchers) – How can innovation and entrepreneurship become a part of your education? The seminars are run in Norwegian.
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Book launch: REFRAMING THE CASE METHOD IN ENTREPRENEUSHIP EDUCATION: Cases from the Nordic Countries
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.
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Together to: Innovate
On the 21st of September, the event “Together to: Innovate” was held for the very first time, as part of NTNU and The Mine’s partnership with Equinor. The first prize was 300,000 NOK, and students across all disciplines had the opportunity to participate and compete against other students. The competition’s only criterion was that the…
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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…
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Building Spark* Split
In March 2022 we had the chance to attend Spark* Split’s very first kick-off event. This was Sparks first real chance to meet the rest of the University, and to introduce the Spark concept to all students and faculty at the university.
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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.
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Join Engage and Element Logic for a design sprint May 3 2022!
Are you passionate about disruptive innovation & business models? Are you interested in robotics, automation & cutting-edge tehcnologies? Join Engage and Element Logic for a design sprint next Tuesday. Register through the QR code, lunch and dinner will be served.
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NTNU Student Investor Day: 29. April 2022
Engage and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship announces this year’s event the 29th of April. One lucky winner will also be invited to join Stage Two, the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning out of leading European universities.
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Stage two: Succeeding in the entrepreneurial world
The biggest benefit of winning Stage two is not just the money and interests, although that is important for future growth, but it gives the project credibility and make us known in all of Europe, and the affirmation itself is what is most important for Aviant.
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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.
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CHIC: Spreading Spark* to Gdansk and Split
This autumn Engage has started the CHIC project which includes several work packages, including one that focuses on spreading Spark*.
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The need for innovation in the transportation sector
When talking to the people who build and facilitate transportation in Norway, an overwhelming majority say that they need innovative and entrepreneurial competence in the industry, leader of Konnekt Basit Mohammad says.
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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
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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.
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The roadblocks towards entrepreneurship
On September 30th, Spark* hosted their annual Join a Startup Night (JASUN). This is an event for student startups to pitch their ideas to fellow peers, as well as being an event for students interested to join one of the attending startups.