tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77169224326821941792024-03-13T08:55:16.308-07:00Welcome to "Young Innovative Entrepreneurs" project!Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-40274972472490128402015-01-30T08:33:00.000-08:002015-03-12T08:33:58.966-07:00YIE Concluding Seminar or “The Great End for a New Beginning”<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being as one of the major point in ENPI Kolarctic programme, Young
Innovative Entrepreneurs (YIE) project has been making an enormous impact on
social development and on the economic situation for the whole Barents region.
More attentively, YIE has paid attention to specific developing aspects in High
North, such as entrepreneurship and employment level in local economic region,
by bringing new ideas into the business sphere and establishing an active
cooperation between young innovative entrepreneurs and already existing seasoned
entrepreneurs around the Barents region.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project’s final event included a business workshop on 30<sup>th</sup>
October and a concluding seminar on 31<sup>st</sup> October. Through the
business workshop, our young entrepreneurs in the Barents Regions had a chance
to introduce their products and services directly to people in Rovaniemi by
having individual promotion stands. An inspiring mini workshop was also held by
Victoria Timofeeva from ARTishock, where participants can create beautiful
paper flowers themselves. The aim of the seminar on the next day was to share
our achievements and results and to strengthen cross-border entrepreneurship network
in the Barents Region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Main Part of the Seminar</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening words were given by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leena
Alalääkkölä</b>, director of Culture and Business in Lapland UAS. She had an
aim to adjust young and creative generation for future entrepreneurship
relations and tell them that there is nothing to be afraid of.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other speakers included for example <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Risto
Mäkikyrö</b> from Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the
Environment for Lapland – regional support for innovating businesses – TEKES,
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tiina Hoskari</b>, graphic
facilitator from Kuvitellen Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project manager <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eila Seppänen </b>from
Lapland UAS explained that the main target of the YIE project was to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>establish a safe, innovative and
entrepreneurial learning environment to everyone. Seppänen gave thanks to InnoBarentsLab
(IBL), the organization who was the main organizer of the Concluding Seminar.
She pointed out that IBL is an useful and efficient tool for progressing skills
and entrepreneurial training.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Group discussions</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YIE team members shared their own acquired knowledge while working
together during the project. As a summary of all received experiences, YIE
guests were pleased to share with us some inspirational videos. One of them
came from Norway, from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heidi Andreassen.</b>
While watching movies, seminar’s participants recognized that each individual has
its own mindset to see him/herself in the various stages of life and thanks to
YIE there was the chance to participate and experience, in order to achieve new
business contacts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the active discussion it was clearly understandable that members
of this project, no matter where they came from – Sweden or Finland, Norway or
Russia –will try to reach that next level of entrepreneurship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The concluding words by project coordinators <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anzelika Krastina</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saila Puukko</b>
were that a great job was done, but there is no reason to stay on the now
reached level. This is not the final destination for us, who joined from the
beginning of the project. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-61802184265647097892014-12-22T01:46:00.001-08:002014-12-22T01:46:46.496-08:00The short one but still about the project...Dear friends!<br />
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It is sad to say but our project is coming to an end.<br />
On the 18th of December, the closing seminar was held in Murmansk, Russia. It was a warm and casual meeting where partners, project participants, representatives of support structures and the ones who wanted to hear about project results, met.<br />
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Project coordinators presented the results of work and plans to future activites. Everyone in the audience were welcome to say a few words about the project, to give feedback on project activities.<br />
We had a very interesting discussion in the end followed up with a mingle time.<br />
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Project is over but we have a lot of ideas and many creative people in the region. The show must and will go on!<br />
But now... Merry Cristmas and Happy New Year to everyone!<br />
Cheers,<br />
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from Lapland University of Applied Sciences, InnoBarentsLab, Jo- Jo the dog
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Thursday (04/12/2014) was full of meetings.
Anzelika Krastina, the leader of InnoBarentsLab in Rovaniemi and MIBO partners Larisa
Bilous, Elena Skiotis, Elena Zubrickaya had a discussion about planning future cooperation
that resulted in signed cooperation agreement. Among few activities agreed for
the future is organisation of a winter school also in the form of a business
camp, creating joint publications and exchange of expertise through on-line or
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<b>Friday 31st October 8.30 - 14.00 concluding seminar is open public, please register on:</b> <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OqiRKvnXyg1PNVSsK44bkDg7h6ea9ba8BtCP7d1rt6U/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OqiRKvnXyg1PNVSsK44bkDg7h6ea9ba8BtCP7d1rt6U/viewform</a></div>
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-72622396236922469942014-06-12T23:31:00.002-07:002014-06-13T02:27:02.120-07:00Barents Business Festival was a success!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The annual <a href="http://www.barentsreunion.com/" target="_blank">Barents Reunion convention</a> took place in HaparandaTornio, Perä-pohjolan opisto, on 3rd - 4th June. The topic for the 2014 convention was <i>Barents youth and young entrepreneurship</i><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The keynote speakers this year were <b><a href="http://www.micaeldahlen.com/en/" target="_blank">Micael Dahlen</a></b>, the rock star Professor who is an author of six books and an internationally acclaimed speaker from Sweden, and <b><a href="http://www.speakersforum.fi/puhujat_ja_juontajat/puhuja_kuvaus/mato_valtonen/" target="_blank">Mato Valtonen</a></b>, a well-known Finnish musician, actor and entrepreneur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the second day the stage was <b>Yngve W. Bergheim’s</b> (<a href="http://ramsalt.com/about-us" target="_blank">Ramsalt Lab</a>) and <b>Niina Tuikkala’s</b> (<a href="http://www.alpakkamedia.fi/index.html" target="_blank">Alpakka Media</a>). Especially Yngve W. Bergheim's presentation was interesting as in addition to introducing Ramsalt Lab, he told about YIE's spin-off <a href="http://barentsobserver.com/en/business/2013/11/creating-barents-it-cluster-01-11" target="_blank">Barents IT-Cluster</a>. The audience was also introduced with the Sami experience with <b>Tanja Sanila</b> (<a href="http://www.taike.fi/web/lappi/tanja-sanila-saamelaiskulttuuri" target="_blank">graphic designer</a>) and <b>Aslat Simma </b>(on behalf of Erica Huuva Simma from <a href="http://www.ericahuuva.se/" target="_blank">Erica Huuva Design</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Barents Reunion’s programme was only one part of the two-day event. Young Innovative Entrepreneurs -project had a tent set up outside the Peräpohjolan opisto. In this Barents Business Festival area, our young and talented entrepreneurs had their own exhibition stands where they had a chance to present their businesses. A big thank you goes to the great mind behind the layout idea of the Barents Business Festival area, <b>Elina Stoor</b> from <a href="http://www.innorooms.fi/innorooms/etusivu_-_iLme.html" target="_blank">iLme innorooms</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Barents Reunion, the Barents Business Festival continued and was open for the entrepreneurs for few more hours. First, </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martti Kankaanranta</b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from </span><a href="http://www.yrittajat.fi/lappi" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">the Regional Organization of Enterprises in Lapland</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, welcomed YIE participants to the Barents Business Festival. After this, the entrepreneurs introduced their businesses to others participantsand audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The annual </span><a href="http://www.barentsseaconference.no/?page_id=819" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Barents Sea Youth conference</b></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (BSYC) took place on 2.–4.4.2014 in Hammerfest, Norway. The goal of the conference is to give young people, future professionals, an insight into regional industry initiatives and career prospects as well as an opportunity to build new networks with each other and the business community in the Barents region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year 30 students and young entrepreneurs from Finland, Russia, and Sweden gathered together. It was a unique opportunity for all to get familiar with oil and gas industry developments and to see what its benefits for the development of the entire </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">region are. Visits and presentations at Statoil LNG plant, Polarbase, as well as meeting the companies during the expo in the conference opened up new perspectives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Finland all participants are active members of the YIE project and therefore we took a chance to promote our project and upcoming cross-border activities. One of our experts, <b>Iikka Rahkonen</b> from Lapland UAS’s Tornio campus informed the audience about the industries and business opportunities in Finnish Lapland. Probably the most exciting part <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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for young people from the Barents was the teamwork in workshops, working on challenging topics of Arctic technology and looking for solutions to current problems. The conference resulted in presentations by the participants on innovative solutions to given industry problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">order to network and seek new business opportunities. His company Minetec Oy deals with hydraulics, automation, installation and maintenance. He admits that this was not a usual trip. He gained new views and discovered a different side of business opportunities. He thought it was nice to see the motivation of students to be a part of northern industries. “I discovered the future potential that can grow from created contacts. I also feel comfortable acting here as a mentor during the workshop, since I have some experience”.</span><br />
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engineers, a journalist, and herself. The team did not have previous teamwork experience, but was able to work in a very creative manner and she found an especially interesting journalistic approach demonstrated by her team member. “Everybody needs the culture shock, not only in terms of nationalities, but also in terms of working cultures; we need to act like grownups here.” Regarding the industries, Annika adds: “I am concerned about the nature preservation in Norway seeing all the developments in the oil and gas industry.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Roni Mäläskä</b>, business student from Lapland UAS and active student of YIE InnoBarentsLab in Rovaniemi shared that for him, it was first of all a big cultural experience, “an opportunity to work with fellow students who have come from all over the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barents region and some from even more distant locations to the city of Hammerfest.” It is not easy to share ideas with each other and learn how to work together and also find the group spirit between team members when you have only known them for a day. I have also received a lot of information concerning oil and gas industries which are located in Norway, the current situation and the future of the business in the area. I discovered also that Norway is more than just oil and gas; it is a way of life. I always had an image that civilisation ends in Rovaniemi, but vibrant life can exist in a northern city of 10 000 people like Hammerfest and that Lapland’s people can offer so much more than they even realise, such as different innovative business services, tourism services and infrastructure development activities.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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the North, not only in the oil and gas industry, but also for more innovative businesses. “Being in the workshop with engineers made me more confident in my business studies, because the diversity of education, cultural background and personality diversity all contribute to better results. That is also what I learnt from the Statoil presentation, about 19 nationalities working in Hammerfest LNG plant. We talk so much about the North, but now it is time for the action to make it work!”</span><br />
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contacts during the conference expo, however, due to a closed road on the way to Hammerfest we lost valuable time and therefore there was not enough time for company negotiations. The lesson in this is that you never know if the weather is good in Norway. Overall Heidi admits: “I have got a couple of interesting contacts and I hope that some of the students will contact me and will help me to get into the Swedish and Norwegian markets.” Besides new international experience, for Heidi it was also a good chance to get to know our Finnish participants and she thinks that there is a great potential for cooperation in this group. As an experienced entrepreneur, she acted many times as a mentor or advisor during the workshops.</span><br />
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the Tornio campus of Lapland UAS stressed that she was surprised at the culture differences, even though we are so close here – different Barents countries, the working style of the other students was different from the Finnish one, it sometimes takes a long time to make decisions. “In addition this was a great chance to see the large gas and oil industry and its developments. I got some ideas to create business within the building industry here and I will share these business ideas with my family and will use connections I created.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-88619284396680703442014-03-26T06:12:00.001-07:002014-03-26T06:12:27.819-07:00Benchmarking innovation and entrepreneurship practices in Dublin
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9SAVXYhfUVU/UzLOrLpPfhI/AAAAAAAAAd8/lxoZK0MJF8c/s1600/Our+group+in+Innovation+Academy_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9SAVXYhfUVU/UzLOrLpPfhI/AAAAAAAAAd8/lxoZK0MJF8c/s1600/Our+group+in+Innovation+Academy_a.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">YIE staff from Lapland UAS is further exploring good practices on
innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems and this time gained beneficial
experiences during benchmarking visits to Dublin. The trip took place on 17-21 March, 2014. The participants were the head of RDI of Business and
Culture Marika Saranne, Project manager Eila Seppänen, the leader of
InnoBarentsLab (IBL) and project coordinator at the Rovaniemi campus Anzelika
Krastina, senior lecturers Tuija Kuisma and Kaisa Lammi. Lessons learnt <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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during
the visits will add greatly to further development of InnoBarentsLab and other
entrepreneurship support activities within the project.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">InnoBarentsLab is considered to be the place
where students and aspiring entrepreneurs can work on different innovation
projects, developing business ideas, preparing for start-ups, but the main aim
is to develop entrepreneurial and innovative mind-sets. Therefore in this
benchmark trip we were focusing on similar activities in Dublin.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bridget Noone, Enterprise Executive introduces to <br />Trinity College Dublin Entrepreneurship programme</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.innovators.ie/p/home" target="_blank">University College Dublin, Innovation Academy</a> and <a href="http://www.tcd.ie/research_innovation/entrepreneurship/campus.php" target="_blank">Entrepreneurship Campus of Trinity College Dublin</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">proved that creating
entrepreneurship ecosystem such as IBL and similar is the core for supporting
entrepreneurial endeavours. It was mentioned that Dublin is considered as a
“Silicon Valley of Europe”. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Innovation is seen as integral part of
entrepreneurship and is nurtured and
encouraged by the numerous support mechanisms in both institutions. <span style="background: white;">Entrepreneurship Campus of Trinity <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D35P_qNNK2Y/UzLOrlmyrYI/AAAAAAAAAeM/EoKej5QtQ98/s1600/Pitching+and+the+poster+of+the+idea_1_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D35P_qNNK2Y/UzLOrlmyrYI/AAAAAAAAAeM/EoKej5QtQ98/s1600/Pitching+and+the+poster+of+the+idea_1_a.jpg" height="162" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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College Dublin
provides post-graduate entrepreneurship education programmes. Additionally
whether needed it offers</span> incubation or access to accelerator programs.
The campus</span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"> has 16,000 sq.m. of lettable space for small and medium-sized enterprises
and provides them for free for half a year or more for the start-ups of their
students. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">Innovation Academy of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">University College Dublin is </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">an internationally recognised exemplar of best-practice in
innovation and entrepreneurship education. We were lucky to <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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participate in the
educational workshops as well as during the pitching of the ideas in Innovation
Academy. It must be noted that the students of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
programme are coming from different study fields and in one group together
works a lawyer, architect, retired military person and a businessman. It was
said that the multidisciplinary teams is the core of innovation and during the
pitching it was very interesting to see that people can come up with most
unexpected solutions to given business <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LDtR6cETqJ8/UzLOsxoDszI/AAAAAAAAAeg/pWXF4tC_rno/s1600/Young+entrepreneurs+working+in+the+premises+of+the+Entrepreneurship+campus_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LDtR6cETqJ8/UzLOsxoDszI/AAAAAAAAAeg/pWXF4tC_rno/s1600/Young+entrepreneurs+working+in+the+premises+of+the+Entrepreneurship+campus_a.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young entrepreneurs working in the premises <br />of the Entrepreneurship campus</td></tr>
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challenges, and this is exactly what
host companies are expecting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">During this trip we gained also new prospectives from
<a href="http://www.dubchamber.ie/" target="_blank">Dublin Chamber of Commerce</a>, where we were informed about the practices of
implementation of Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme. </span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">The programme is aimed to support young entrepreneurs to develop their
skills in business management through an exchange in an enterprise run
by experienced entrepreneurs in another European country. The host Marion
Jammet expressed her believe in the importance of <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UQiCbe0wnqc/UzLOsGT9_mI/AAAAAAAAAeU/NQjXihH-yh8/s1600/With+Irish+students+during+the+workshop_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UQiCbe0wnqc/UzLOsGT9_mI/AAAAAAAAAeU/NQjXihH-yh8/s1600/With+Irish+students+during+the+workshop_a.jpg" height="169" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Irish students during the workshop</td></tr>
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such programme and to the
surprise of all confirmed that in their experience there are only success
stories, meaning that both – the host company and young entrepreneurs have only
benefited from such cooperation across the borders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Common
conclusion of our group is that these visits are of great educational value and
extremely inspirational. One of the hosts encouraged us that we are on the
right track in terms of promotion of young entrepreneurship in the Barents and
that nothing happens overnight. Innovativeness is a way of thinking that we need
to spark into our region and therefore we need more projects such as YIE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7wZpc7U0Yg/UzLOpVejHlI/AAAAAAAAAdw/EhxBZck9e2o/s1600/In+the+incubator+of+students%25C2%25B4+start-ups_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7wZpc7U0Yg/UzLOpVejHlI/AAAAAAAAAdw/EhxBZck9e2o/s1600/In+the+incubator+of+students%25C2%25B4+start-ups_a.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the incubator of students' start-ups</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the
most significant outcomes is a mutual agreement to cooperate between University
College Dublin, Innovation Academy and Lapland UAS in the future. Creation of
entrepreneurial ecosystem wasa topic for potential future joint project. It is
also a good achievement from the sustainability point of view of YIE project
outcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some
thoughts and quotes as a reflection of the visits:</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Space
matters!” It is important to have inspirational space for students where to
work at any time of the day.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Creative
thinking” + “Entrepreneurship thinking” + “Application to own context” – the
core triangle of entrepreneurship educational programmes.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Our
job is not to advise, but to conceptualize.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Entrepreneurship
mix of Innovation Academy: Large and SMEs, profit and non-profit – because the
world is not a single colour.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Train
the trainers!</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Entrepreneurship
should not be an academic school, we make people to THINK. Our school is
constant debate!</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Early
stage ideation is important.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Action
based and experience based learning.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We
teach the opportunity recognition.</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Entrepreneurship
environmental factor matters. You have to have at least one strong supporter
from the top administration!</i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There
is no shortcut – Trinity College Dublin works 26 years with Entrepreneurships
programme and still many things are to be developed.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></i></li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfdmUztBsGI/UzLOMmpCGTI/AAAAAAAAAdM/KWxgpv6EpM8/s1600/At+the+University+College+Dublin+campus_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfdmUztBsGI/UzLOMmpCGTI/AAAAAAAAAdM/KWxgpv6EpM8/s1600/At+the+University+College+Dublin+campus_a.jpg" height="205" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the University College Dublin campus</td></tr>
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<!--EndFragment-->Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-62194517926128936602014-02-28T08:35:00.000-08:002014-02-28T08:35:24.556-08:00Good recipes for entrepreneurial cooperation from Business Kitchen
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">”If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the
kitchen!” they say. Well, few of us Young Innovative Entrepreneurs’ project
workers from Lapland University of Applied Sciences took the challenge and
headed off to Oulu, Finland to benchmark an intriguing place called <a href="http://www.businesskitchen.fi/" target="_blank"><b>Business Kitchen</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had heard only positive things about the Business
Kitchen before, but the innovative entity sort of surprised us, and
furthermore, <b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">inspired us</span></b>. As described in their website, ”Business Kitchen is
the first place in Oulu which truly brings together different actors from
entrepreneurial fields under the same roof, presenting a unique way for making
things happen”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Principal Lecturer <b>Jouko Isokangas</b> from Oulu University of Applied Sciences welcomed
us to Oulu and gave us a brief introduction to the history and general
principles of the Business Kitchen. Isokangas pointed out that Business Kitchen
brings the resources and expertise of the University of Oulu and the Oulu
University of Applied Sciences for enterprises to utilize. The aim, of course,
is <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>to increase business</b></span>. At the same time, it allows students and staff to
embrace the entrepreneurial orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hGJurpZ67Cw/UxC4ClCj3AI/AAAAAAAAAcI/a1NEZRZ3_8w/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hGJurpZ67Cw/UxC4ClCj3AI/AAAAAAAAAcI/a1NEZRZ3_8w/s1600/14.jpg" height="250" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the introduction we jumped into the car
and took a short trip to the Oulu city centre where the Business Kitchen is
located. Quite an excellent location in the middle of everything! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Business Kitchen offers a possibility to
utilize the open working space 24/7. The doors are open for everyone on workdays
from 8.30 am to 4 pm, and it has more than 1000 visitors every month. <b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Innovative
working surroundings</span></b> enable to organize meetings anytime and anywhere. The
focal point of the Business Kitchen though, of course, is the kitchen area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ktegrSaC3cI/UxC4BTBd_PI/AAAAAAAAAb8/c96wTZK5RZQ/s1600/12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ktegrSaC3cI/UxC4BTBd_PI/AAAAAAAAAb8/c96wTZK5RZQ/s1600/12.jpg" height="320" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The list of parties involved in the Business
Kitchen is quite impressive as it truely combines just about all the actors
that an entrepreneur can benefit from. Here’s a tip what one can find behind
the doors of Business Kitchen:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://oulu.demola.net/" target="_blank">Demola Oulu</a></b> produces demos, innovation skills, entrepreneurship culture,
and activates university-business collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.businesskitchen.fi/menu/incubator/" target="_blank">Oulu UAS Business Incubator</a></b> is a service for students and starting entrepreneurs to turn
a business idea into a business plan.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oulu
Student Entrepreneurship Society, <b><a href="http://www.businesskitchen.fi/menu/ouluses/" target="_blank">OuluSES</a></b>,
is an open community for students who are interested in entrepreneurship
and self-development.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.businesskitchen.fi/menu/business-blender/" target="_blank">Business Blender</a></b> services are business development services from the Business
Kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.businesskitchen.fi/menu/ripa-business-services/" target="_blank">RIPA Business Services</a></b> offers students’ knowledge for entrepreneurs’ needs.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.businessoulu.com/en/" target="_blank">BusinessOulu</a></b> is the driver of businesses and industries, and it aims at
supporting creation and competitiveness of businesses and success in the
Oulu region.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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established companies.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.businesskitchen.fi/menu/startup-services/oulu-business-accelerator/" target="_blank">Oulu Business Accelerator</a></b> coaches start-ups aiming at rapid international growth.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.servodesign.fi/index.php?id=1&lang_id=1" target="_blank">Design Center Servo</a></b> <span lang="EN-US">is a cluster of various actors who aim to develop the business of
their customers with the tools of interface design, industrial design and
service productizing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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number of <b>Start-up businesses</b>
are located in the second floor of the Business Kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XkqATc7dcPw/UxC4AUfEtFI/AAAAAAAAAbw/xdTANa1gE4M/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XkqATc7dcPw/UxC4AUfEtFI/AAAAAAAAAbw/xdTANa1gE4M/s1600/11.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For universities’ students the working method
is <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>co-creation</b></span>, and the working teams usually consist of not only students but
actors from business life also. As an open innovation environment, Business
Kitchen can offer many ways to enhance knowledge and expertise: networking,
workshops, international contacts, pitching, learning by doing, sharing
thoughts, co-creational working, and the list goes on and on. Business Kitchen
is a centre of entrepreneurship for universities’ and the pedagogical point of
view has been a priority from the get go as Business Kitchen has been planned
and developed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnZVg19H_MM/UxC4GxurK3I/AAAAAAAAAcw/0Skzpl1qdWY/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnZVg19H_MM/UxC4GxurK3I/AAAAAAAAAcw/0Skzpl1qdWY/s1600/9.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we drove back home from this very
fascinating visit, one element of the Business Kitchen concept was uppermost in
our minds: <b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">cooperation</span></b>. Business
Kitchen really brings together not only the universities’ and entrepreneurs but
also the actors from city of Oulu. It’s an unique innovation- and
entrepreneurial community which gathers people together despite the
organizational boundaries. By providing the spaces, different functions and expertise
as well as creating ”swarming” and chances to meet people, new business,
communities and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ideas are automatically born.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw02gNtfwIQ/UxC4Fna-z4I/AAAAAAAAAcs/_ebrcBoP0VY/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw02gNtfwIQ/UxC4Fna-z4I/AAAAAAAAAcs/_ebrcBoP0VY/s1600/8.jpg" height="320" width="216" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw02gNtfwIQ/UxC4Fna-z4I/AAAAAAAAAcs/_ebrcBoP0VY/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Business Kitchen’s way of bringing all the entrepreneurial
(support) actors together in cooperation challenges us to think how it could be
possible to create an innovative environment in different circumstances. For
example, in our sparsely populated regions, the existing operating environments
and infrastructure as well as each municipality’s/city’s different business
structure, population and already formed collaborations can produce challenges in
the Barents region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What kind of <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>innovative, entrepreneurial cooperation</b></span> would
be needed and possible to organize in the Barents region? And how can we turn
those so called challenges into opportunities and strenghts?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S. Have you heard about the </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfgRR2smQE" target="_blank">Polar Bear Pitching 2014</a></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> organized on February 7th? Yeah, the brilliant mind behind it can
also be traced back to the Business Kitchen. It was unbelievable to learn that
the event was held only few months after the original idea of it came to life.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Minttu Merivirta, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Project Planner, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lapland UAS</span></i></div>
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participants and students from Lapland University of Applied Sciences took part
in <a href="http://www.arcticdesignweek.fi/en/seminar/" target="_blank">The Stories -seminar</a> organized
during the <a href="http://www.arcticdesignweek.fi/en/" target="_blank">Arctic Design Week 2014</a> in Rovaniemi on February 20<sup>th</sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">.</span></span></div>
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the upcoming YIE events and happenings as well as about a chance to get
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about how using the design expertise benefits businesses. The Finnish and
international design experts spoke about creativity and the arctic as the
resource and advantage of a blooming business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the <a href="http://www.designroi.fi/" target="_blank">Design ROI</a> -research project. In the project he and his
team of researchers from Aalto University set out to develop a methodology and
tool to measure the economic impact of design.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">Juhana Arkio</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">, who is currently running the
Industrial Design team at <a href="http://www.wartsila.com/en_FI/Home" target="_blank">Wärtsilä</a>, shared his knowledge about industrial
design. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">After that the stage was given to <b>Anne Turula</b>, Customer Service Manager in the Growth Companies Unit
of <a href="http://www.tekes.fi/en/" target="_blank">Tekes</a>. She leads the New Customer Team that works in cooperation with
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<a href="http://www.brp.com/" target="_blank">BRP</a></span><span lang="EN-US">, in turn,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"> discussed especially about the
development process of Sea-Doos and Ski-Doos. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">Côté is Advanced Concept Manager (design
portion) and Design Services for Lynx, OE and ROTAX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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finished the seminar with captivating speech in which she encouraged to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">design weeks by concentrating on
"the arctic". </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">For the
past nine years, Seipell has been the senior writer for <a href="http://www.thecoolhunter.net/" target="_blank">The Cool Hunter</a>,
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-seminar, <b>Kristiina Kaski</b> from
Teknova Publishers and <b>Satu Miettinen</b>
from University of Lapland presented <a href="http://www.muotoiluajattelu.fi/2014/02/muotoiluajattelu-kirja.html" target="_blank">a new publication called "DesignThinking" (Muotoiluajattelu)</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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activities. They were helping with practicalities during Stories Seminar under
the supervision of Heli Huhanantti who is one of our senior IBL members. Outi
Lehtiniemi has been responsible for design lounge in Arktikum. Annika
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Barents Business Festival that will be a great
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-69614244254358960202013-10-11T03:54:00.001-07:002013-10-11T03:54:55.352-07:00The training event for the Russian participants ot "YIE" project on the 9th of October 2013 in NCCI, Murmansk<div style="margin-left: 7.1pt;">
On the 9th of October 2013 the North
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business, state registration of a new company, liquidation and
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<u>Andrey Dochkin </u>Director of the non-commercial organization “FORMAP” ( Fund for Small and Middle Business support)</div>
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18 participants of the training event obtained actual information about
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-58481596422703489872013-06-19T07:08:00.003-07:002013-06-19T07:10:31.250-07:00Young Innovative Entrepreneurs showcased in the Barents Reunion<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the sixth year in a row <b><a href="http://www.barentsreunion.com/" target="_blank">Barents Reunion convention</a></b> gathered influential people of the Barents
area together on June 12th and 13th in Tornio, Finland. The topic for the 2013
convention was <i><span lang="EN-US">"Transforming
trade barriers into boundless opportunities"</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. </span>The
annual convention’s <span lang="EN-US">goal is to increase networking and cooperation among
the people living in the Barents region. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">This year </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";">as a part of Barents
Reunion convent <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YIEproject" target="_blank">Young Innovative Entrepreneurs project </a>organized a Youth
Workshop for it's participants. YIE’s participants <b>Denis Kreminskiy</b>, <b>Heidi
Andreassen</b> and <b>Mattias Johansson</b>
got a chance to make an appearance also in the Barents Reunion convent’s
general program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Barents region was discussed</span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The workshop kicked off by brainstorming
the challenges and opportunities of the Barents </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">region. The idea was to think how we could turn the existing challenges into opportunities in the future.</span></div>
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the attraction of the Barents region so that the talented youth of the area
would prefer staying here in the future and how to make the Barents region
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was great to see that <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";">at the end of the first
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After brainstorming together the
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matters: people, resources, technology, infrastructure and globality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YIE’s young entrepreneurs and students
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the Barents Reunion convention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The presentation raised up issues about the future and
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convent <b>Ingvar Kamprad</b> was so
impressed of the presentations that he wanted to personally thank the youth of
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barents Reunion convention always culminates in
awarding the <b>Barents Entrepreneur of the Year</b> and the <b>Barents Young
Entrepreneur of the Year</b>. The awards are given to entrepreneurs who during
the year have carried out unique achievements in the Barents area and who
inspire others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The criteria for the winners are: <span lang="EN-US">currently live in
the Barents region; set a good example in terms of values; be an ambassador for
the region; display creativity beyond the ordinary; and actively work to
increase cross-border cooperation within the region. For the Young
Entrepreneur award the individual has to be under 35 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">This year the winner of the Barents Young Entrepreneur of the Year was chosen by the YIE project and
winner of the Barents Entrepreneur of the Year was chosen by Ingvar Kamprad.
</span>Both parties were very mutual because the winner of the both awards was <b>Yngve Bergheim</b> from <a href="http://ramsalt.com/" target="_blank">Ramsalt Lab</a> (Tromsø,
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from the beginning and has even found a business partner through the project from
Murmansk, Russia (<b>Denis Kreminskiy</b>,
<a href="http://a-turn.com/about" target="_blank">Arctic Turn</a>). He emphasizes that this kind of cooperation would have never been
possible without the YIE project and the matchmaking events that has been
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Ramsalt Lab's co-founder, <b>Martin Lund</b>,
and <b>Morten Brugård</b> for choosing him
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">The second international matchmaking event of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YIEproject" target="_blank">Young InnovativeEntrepreneurs project </a>took place in
Murmansk (Russia) the weekend from 24<sup>th</sup> to 25<sup>th</sup> of May
2013. The objective of this event was to gather the entrepreneurs who are
participating actively in the project within their respective countries. The
main purpose is to matchmake them into cross-border cooperation with their
companies, so in that way combat the migration of the young people from Barents region to the southern parts of the countries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The conference was two days long, where entrepreneurs had the chance
to visit Russian companies and develop their skills and knowledge<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> of Russian companies and how to develop business in
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<span lang="EN-US">During the first day we could hear a success story from a Norwegian
entrepreneur</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: FI;">, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tage
Sæther</b> from <a href="http://www.megafishnet.com/mtss/" target="_blank">Murmansktorgsnabservice JSC</a>,</span><span lang="EN-US"> who
started trade fish between Norway and Russia. It was a useful and an
interesting story which gave motivation to a lot of entrepreneurs, who listened
to the experiences from this young Norwegian entrepreneur. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the same day YIE entrepreneurs participated
on a business simulation. They were separated by groups, so it was much easier
to visit to the different places, where they developed and learned how to start
a business in the Murmansk region. They also had the chance at the same time to
visit <a href="http://www.murmanexpo.ru/eng/kolskiy_partneri/events_kp_eng/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kola partneriat</i></a>, a business fair which was held the same weekend than the matchmaking conference.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">During the Friday afternoon, there were visiting to companies such <a href="http://siva.ru/eng/" target="_blank">Industrialpark SIVA</a>, which is a business incubator, </span><span lang="EN-US">a consulting company </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://new.netsl.ru/" target="_blank">NetSL</a>, and also the <a href="http://agapanovich.ru/en_index.html" target="_blank">designing studio</a> of one of our Russian entrepreneurs, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alexandra
Gapanovich</b>, and the <a href="http://www.barents.no/the-youth-house-that-mr-pink-built.4986687-142772.html" target="_blank">Youth House Mr. Pink</a> (<a href="http://www.nuff.no/Pages/BYFA.php" target="_blank">Murmansk branch of Barents YouthFilm Academy</a>). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The objective of the second day of conference was to exchange the
experiences from the first day. The entrepreneurs were separated again in work
groups in order to discuss the barriers in cross-border business and business
in general according to the information gained through the business simulation
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</span>After the work groups, the entrepreneurs had the time to discuss the
result of the conference with everybody else and talk about the development of
cross-border business.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On Saturday evening it was time for the farewell dinner, were most
of the project partners and young entrepreneurs attended and shared a nice
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<span lang="EN-US">Nowadays all the entrepreneurs are looking forward the next
matchmaking conference which will be held in Kirkenes, Norway, during this
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.545439085512811.1073741826.109678935755497&type=1" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Click here and check out some photos from the matchmaking conference in Murmansk!</span></a></div>
Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-22154717088841433052013-05-29T12:38:00.001-07:002013-06-19T06:48:20.395-07:00Success stories within YIE<span class="userContent">Young Innovative Entrepreneurs project proudly presents it's first success story! Yngve W. Bergheim from Ramsalt Lab informed us that they launched a product of the YIE program:</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arctic-Turn/163701097031028?directed_target_id=0">Arctic Turn</a> (Murmansk) and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ramsaltlab?directed_target_id=0">Ramsalt Lab</a> (Tromsø), in cooperation with filmmaker Trine Hamran, have produced the
web documentary site <a href="http://borderstories.no/">borderstories.no</a>. “Media daily reports on the new
optimism in the north, an optimism caused by the great res<span class="text_exposed_show">ources
of the region. I believe it is important we remind each other that the
greatest resources of the north is the people living here, says Hamran.“
<br /> <br /> You can follow the web documentary on <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=196717396635&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/barentsobserver?directed_target_id=0">BarentsObserver.com</a> and have more insight from <a href="http://barentsobserver.com/en/barents-portraits/2013/05/barentsobserver-presents-northern-diversity-27-05">here</a>.<br /> <br />
Participants in the project were Denis Kreminskiy, Евгений Пугачев,
Martin Normann Lund, Yngve Bergheim, Erik Falster and Trine Hamran.
Martin and Yngve from Ramsalt and Denis from Arctic Turn, first met at
the YIE Business <a href="http://yieproject.blogspot.fi/2012/11/successful-matchmaking-event-in.html">Matchmaking conference in Haparanda/Rovaniemi</a>. Shortly
thereafter, and with plans for collaboration in mind, five employees at
Ramsalt travelled to Murmansk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the YIE's Finnish participants gathered together for further regional networking at <a href="http://www.tiedekeskus-pilke.fi/home/" target="_blank">Science Centre Pilke</a> in Rovaniemi. The event was organized in cooperation with <a href="http://www.creativeyouth.eu/" target="_blank">NoCry2 project</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The event kicked off with a short presentation about today's entrepreneurial situation in Lapland by <b>Antti Pietilä</b> from Länsipohjan Yrittäjät. Participants also got a short introduction to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/InnoBarentsLab-IBL/494069980623373" target="_blank">InnoBarentsLab</a> from <b>Janne Konttaniemi</b> (and <b>Heli Huhanantti</b>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Project manager <b>Heidi Alariesto</b> from <a href="http://www.rovaniemenkehitys.fi/In-English" target="_blank">Rovaniemen Kehitys Oy</a> was invited to the event to present their <a href="http://www.rovaniemenkehitys.fi/yrityskummit" target="_blank">mentoring or kind of "godfather" activity</a> where an experienced entrepreneur volunteers to advice young entrepreneurs. As mentoring programme is one of the Young Innovative Entrepreneurs project's aims too, collaboration between Rovaniemen Kehitys and YIE may be possible in the future for mutual benefit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Participants also got a tour around the Science Centre Pilke with Pilke Host <b>Leo Veikkolainen</b>. The exhibition at the Science Centre teaches visitors about sustainable use of the northern forests and about the diverse range of products and commodities connected to the forests. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Science Centre Pilke teaches it's visitors, through all five of the human senses, about the sustainable use of northern forests. This was quite suitable theme/place for the YIE's meeting because after the tour around the Science Centre the participants got a chance to present their projects or companies using "Six senses" (scent, flavor, sensing, hearing, vision, intuition) created by <a href="http://www.innorooms.fi/" target="_blank">iLme innorooms</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eila Seppänen</b> talked about <a href="http://www.creativeyouth.eu/" target="_blank">NoCry 2 project</a> accompanied by music, chocolate and NoCry2's business card that can be turned into a mobile phone holder. Project manager <b>Saila Vaara</b>'s presentation of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YIEproject" target="_blank">Young Innovative Entrepreneurs</a> consisted for example of Angry Birds figure, chocolate money and syrup made of annual shoots of fir trees. <b>Elina Stoor</b> from <a href="http://www.innorooms.fi/" target="_blank">iLme innorooms</a> presented her business by taking the participants to a imaginary picnic on winter. First it was time for a little snack followed by a snowball fight and finally wrapping into a warm blanket. "Six senses" presentations were also heard from other participants of the event; <b>Annett Pée </b>from <a href="http://www.ilcl.fi/index.htm" target="_blank">International Law Consulting Lapland Ltd.</a>, <b>Hayden Lloyd </b>from <a href="http://www.haydenlloyd.net/" target="_blank">Hayden Lloyd Photography</a> and <b>Pia Aarnio </b>from <a href="http://www.designvimma.fi/" target="_blank">Design Vimma</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Check out more photos from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.501510413239012.14969049.109678935755497&type=1" target="_blank">YIE's Facebook-page</a>.</span></span></div>
Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-85337727932982808542013-01-23T08:05:00.000-08:002013-01-23T08:05:18.265-08:00Strengthening networks in Finland<br />
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The Finnish participants of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YIEproject">Young Innovative Entrepreneurs</a> had a get-together event on January 17th at <a href="http://www.tervolatalo.fi/">Tervolatalo</a> in Tervola.</div>
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The purpose was to meet, discuss and create stronger networks also regionally.<br /><br />The meeting was organized together with two other projects; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/northernCREATIVEyouth2">Northern Creative Youth 2 (NoCry2)</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eucreative">Creative Edge</a>. All the participants of the event were from creative field so there was also a chance to expand networks internationally.</div>
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<b>Nic Mepham</b> from NoCry2 hosted the event and made everyone feel welcomed. The host of Tervolatalo, <b>Matti Alatalo</b>, also welcomed everyone to Tervola and shared some information of the place.</div>
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The highlight of the event was an inspirational panel where young entrepreneurs shared their stories how to succeed in creative industries. The panelists were <b>Miikka Niemi</b> from <a href="http://facebook.com/flatlightfilms">Flatlight Films</a>, <b>Mikko Manninen</b> from <a href="http://facebook.com/koivuinteractive">Koivu Interactive</a>, <b>Elina Stoor</b> from <a href="http://facebook.com/innorooms">iLme innorooms</a> and <b>Marju Matsin</b> from <a href="http://matsindesign.se/">Marju Matsin Design</a>.</div>
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<br />The keywords of the panel were ”creativity”, ”networking” and ”social media”. For example Stoor described creativity as puzzle pieces, by fitting together two pieces that you’d normally think won’t fit together you can create something totally new. Niemi reminded that creativity can be found everywhere and it’s something that inspires yourself or others.<br /><br />There was a division between the panelists when they were contemplating their businesses’ connections to social media. Matsin and Stoor didn’t really see the benefits of social media in their work, Manninen and Niemi on the other hand are strongly connected to different social media channels in their work.<br /><br />Especially for Creative Edge’s young students of creative field the panel was a great way to get a wide range of knowledge and tips from the people who have made a living out of something they really love to do.<br /><br />All and all, this kind of informal and relaxed get-together was well received by the YIE’s Finnish participants. It was a great way to build and maintain networks while waiting for the next Matchmaking event this year!</div>
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More photos of the get-together event can be found in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.457612927631561.105125.432378976821623&type=1">Creative Edge's Facebook-page</a>.</div>
Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-66557766026394166202012-12-25T03:37:00.000-08:002012-12-25T03:39:59.579-08:00YIE Training session in Murmansk<br />
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resources of Entrepreneur” for young entrepreneurs from Murmansk. Participants
of the training discussed influence of personal qualities on success of entrepreneurial
activities. Young entrepreneurs along with Elena Zubritskaya and Elena Skiotis made a
psychological portrait of entrepreneur and did some practical exercises to
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not have to risk, because ...". During discussion of results, participants
concluded that it is important to be able to </span>express thoughts concisely and
intelligently in dispute, as well as to respect the opinion of the other
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<span lang="EN-US">Next step is to organise "Rules of business communication" training, stay tuned! </span></div>
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<b>Cooperation across the borders</b><br />
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The Young Innovative
Entrepreneurs (YIE) is a cooperation project in Barents region. It’s
objective is to support innovative entrepreneurship and young
entrepreneurs, as well as develop new business ideas, entrepreneurial
mindset and cooperation across borders. A region wide support system
will enhance the development and implementation of innovative business
ideas across the borders.
The project manager of YIE <b>Saila-Inkeri Vaara</b>
emphasizes that the main idea is to give young entrepreneurs better
chances to network with each other and meet their future clients,
business partners or even business associates.<br />
— This project enables
entrepreneurs to internationalize and also to see and experience what
kind of people, customs and business activity there is to find in other
countries of Barents region.<br />
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs
organized an international matchmaking event in the
Tornio-Haparanda-Rovaniemi region from the 14th to 17th of November
2012. The objective of this first Matchmaking event was to give the
participants an opportunity to innovate and network internationally and
thereby create cooperation across the borders. The event was attended by
more than 100 young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded students
from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia.<br />
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Success stories from the Barents region
The event kicked off on
Wednesday evening 14.11. with a welcoming dinner at the Tornio City
Hotel. The actual Matchmaking seminar was held on Thursday 15.11. in
Sverigefinska folkhögskolan’s atmospheric spaces in Haparanda, Sweden.
<b> Leena Alalääkkölä</b>,
the Dean of Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences (in the field of
business and culture) welcomed the seminar participants to the event
and predicted the event to be a great experience for everyone. The host
of the event <b>Daniel Muotka</b> (Träningsbyrån, Luleå) presented YIE’s
predecessor Young Entrepreneurs in the Barents project, in which he
worked as a project manager. After this, YIE’s Project Manager
Saila-Inkeri Vaara presented the project and purpose of the Matchmaking
event to the participants.<br />
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On Friday 16.11. the seminar participants were transferred to Rovaniemi where the second day of Matchmaking event was held in. The host <b>Juha Eskelinen</b> (Tivoli, and Cafe & Bar 21, Rovaniemi) welcomed the participants to the Rantavitikka campus of Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences. Then the Director of Lapland Chamber of Commerce, <b>Timo Rautajoki</b>, introduced business and innovation opportunities in the Barents region.
In both Haparanda and Rovaniemi Matchmaking event’s participants also got to hear some inspiring success stories from young entrepreneurs of the Barents region.<br />
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In Haparanda <b>Elina Stoor</b> from iLme Innorooms (Tornio, Finland) presented her company’s innovative ways to organize showrooms and events. Norwegian success story was showcased by <b>Yngve W. Bergheim</b>, <b>Joakim Andrè</b> and <b>Martin Normann Lund</b> from Ramsalt Lab (Tromsø) which has become one of Norway’s leading Drupal-companies in only few years and is investing more in expanding it’s international network in the future. Ramsalt Lab’s representantives had come to Matchmaking event to meet with potential co-operation partners from different industries. Finally, <b>Sanna Hänninen</b> from NH Norrbotten (Haparanda, Sweden) shared her business story of making dreams come true as she has established a career working with something she loves, horses. Her business started as a youth company during upper secondary school but was later officially registered. Hänninen reminded the audience to always pursue their dreams and not settle for less.
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In Rovaniemi innovative success story from Finland was presented by <b>Reijo Koivula</b> from Lappset Group Ltd. The company was established in 1970 so the success story has continued for more than 40 years. Koivula highlighted the importance of selling the solution for customers’ problems, not only products. In the best case product sales becomes customer intimacy, product marketing becomes brand marketing, products are turned into consepts and maintenance into services. Finally, the room was filled with laughter when Koivula played an innovative presentation video in which Lappset Group’s history was fast forwarded from one decade to another in the spirit of current movies from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings. Also, web designer <b>Dennis Kreminskiy</b> (profitum.ru, Murmansk, Russia) shared his own experiences of entrepreneurship. He stressed that the keys to achieving success in business are particularly reliable partners and good reputation.<br />
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<b>The power of international cooperation</b><br />
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However, Matchmaking event wasn’t all about listening existing success stories but participants had the opportunity to create a foundation for their own success stories in workshops. The participants were divided into nine groups in Haparanda. The first day’s agenda was getting to know other members of the group and co-create a small-scale innovative business idea.<br />
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On the next day in Rovaniemi the workshop activities continued with the same groups. This time the assignment was to discuss what kind of support there is for entrepreneurs at this moment and what kind of support is still needed in addition to existing ones. The results of the workshop conversations will be utilized directly as a part of planning and developing of InnoBarentsLab, Innovative Business Services project established within the YIE project.<br />
— The second day in Rovaniemi seems to be very important for further project implementation as the mind maps and posters produced by the groups will give a clear idea of what the InnoLabs should be like, one of the facilitators <b>Nina Ershova</b> emphasizes.<br />
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The facilitators of the workshop groups were very pleased with the discussion and new, innovative and diverse ideas from every group. In particular, multi-culturalism in groups turned out to be a special richness.<br />
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<b>Anzelika Krastina</b> pinpoints that innovative basis created and atmosphere that gives a freedom for ideas, with no limitations for crazy ideas.<br />
— Positivity and open minds were the keys. Cross-cultural dialog was serving as a source for innovativity.<br />
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<b>Iikka Rahkonen</b> reminds also that cross-cultural approach served innovative activity and expanded people’s points of viewes.<br />
— I think my group exploited their different kinds of competences. It was good to realize that great innovations can be needed several types of competences.<br />
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<b>Morten Brugård</b> also sees that in his group the cross-cultural aspect created a foundation for working.<br />
— The most important was learning about different ways of seeing things in different cultures.<br />
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Krastina as well stresses that in brainstorming people got to see things from different angles and sharing opinions and thoughts is what makes it valuable.<br />
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— In their small businesses entrepreneurs are on their own, but here they got to hear what other people think and thus widen their own perspective. And certainly via workshops they managed to reinforce their new network.<br />
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For <b>Tuija Kuisma</b> it was especially impressive that the students in the group realized that they are not alone with their business ideas and they are able to find help.<br />
— It was also great that the young entrepreneurs in our group were enthusiastic about their businesses and ready to tell how they started and so on. They also tried to find ways to help each other although they were from different business branch.<br />
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<b>Ekaterina Tamistova</b> is also happy as a facilitator that the participants had a chance to meet like-minded people.<br />
— That’s very supporting if you want to start something new or continue what you are doing. The workshops were undoubtedly beneficial for all the people involved because everyone learned new things and, perhaps, got an insight or found a business partner.<br />
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<b>Support for future success stories</b><br />
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The workshop results of the YIE’s Matchmaking event were versatile and beneficial for future project <br />
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operations. The participants seemed also pleased with the fact that they were directly consulted concerning the potential support networks and needs. After all, they are the ones who most likely will be utilizing these support systems in the future.<br />
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Numerous good ideas and suggestions were introduced while the groups considered different support networks. Krastina mentions for example that the participants suggested to create InnoBarentsLab as a Business Mall, an open space, physical and virtual, where young entrepreneurs can meet any time and where they would get needed help any time at the spot or online. Online platforms would also facilitate networking among young entrepreneurs in the Barents region, where distances are long.
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Another suggestion was that there should be another event, where the participants could really work in the workshop to design together and plan in detail their cross-border business projects. Two days wasn’t enough to get plans and networks deep enough.<br />
— There are just few from more that 100 new ideas. All of them were “most important”, Krastina points out.<br />
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So this first Matchmaking event of Young Innovative Entrepreneurs project was overall very successful. In addition, it was a great opportunity to showcase cross-border cooperation with <br />
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countries and organizations. The event was organized in cooperation with Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences, Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences and Högskoleförbundet Östra Norrbotten. All the ten partners of YIE project were involved in organizations from the starting point and they were all responsible of arrangements of the participants of their own countries.<br />
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The project manager of YIE Saila-Inkeri Vaara reminds that the collaboration between all the ten partners of the project was crucial for the event to turn out as successful as it was. Close cooperation also made it possible that there were a great amount of participants from every country.<br />
— In particular, this was a successful demonstration of the teamwork between Kemi-Tornio and Rovaniemi Universities of Applied Sciences. Although the distance between us is more than 100 kilmotres, the collaboration and practical arrangements worked out nicely and naturally, Vaara praises.<br />
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Thank You everyone, organizers and participants, who where a part of making this first Matchmaking event successful and memorable!<br />
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From this perspective, little by little we can start waiting for YIE’s next Matchmaking event which will be held in spring 2013 in Russia, Murmansk. See You all there!<br />
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Participants from Sweden gathered in Haparanda for a first meeting.</h3>
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At the national kick-off meeting in Sweden the YIE project was presented and special focus was put on the coming first matchmaking conference in November. All 6 participants had prepared a presentation of themselves and their business and/or business ideas. Immediately new ideas, connections, contacts and possibilities came up! <br />
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We are all looking forward to meet also all the other YIE participants 14-17 November!Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-69844518098605291502012-10-09T04:56:00.002-07:002012-10-09T04:56:56.011-07:00YIE seminar in Rovaniemi<br />
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audience to the project aims and main activities as well as to encourage
entrepreneurship thoughts among young people. Within the project RAMK is
responsible for creating an environment for business innovations under the
working title Barents InnoLab. The aim is to encourage and support
entrepreneurship especially initiated by young people in the region. InnoLab
will be an environment or a workshop where new business ideas will be further
developed with the help of business experts, teachers and other stakeholders.
Further support for establishing a company will be given within the lab work.
Students, who are not thinking their own business, at least not yet, will also have a possibility to work on some
business development projects. This is especially great opportunity for those
who is thinking international business or looking for the possibilities to stay
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">During the seminar, there
were several real business cases presented by the owners or co-owners. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">These were inspirational speeches that showed
the participants of the seminar what kind of businesses are possible in this
Northern area. Maxim Narbrough, a designer from Treeform Oy, gave an excellent
example of an innovative business and social entrepreneurship. Janne
Konttaniemi told the audience how the business developed from small company
just few years ago and is grooving internationally now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Eija Jussila-Salmi, a business
advisor from Rovaniemi Development Agency LTD, made all to think what it takes
to be an entrepreneur. Veikko Keränen, Principal Lecturer from RAMK has got an
interesting project idea and is planning to create a group of young people, who
will work on the development of information system regarding the Northern
Lights. Many small business cases can be developed based on this project idea.</span></div>
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organisers (IBS students) have collected the questionnaire to find out whether
there is an interest among participants to start own business and/or to
participate in the project work of InnoLab. From 140 participants, about one
third expressed their interest to participate in the project and InnoLab
activities. Among them, some participants already have in mind a business idea.
It proved the need for such support structures as InnoLab where people from
different fields can get advice for the business development or to have a
possibility to participate in real life business projects. This is now next
goal of the project to create such a support environment for innovations and
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Anzelika<br />
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Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0Rovaniemi, Suomi66.4970216 25.72499966.4906891 25.705258 66.5033541 25.74474tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716922432682194179.post-88263597308314680302012-10-08T05:59:00.002-07:002012-10-08T06:30:25.578-07:00First national educational event held in Norway<h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Young Innovative Entrepreneurs in Norway had its first educational event at Sommarøya outside of Tromsø. The goal of event was to anchor the participants within the group while creating enthusiasm and inspiration, networking and co-creation of value.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The Norwegian participants in the Kolartic funded Young Innovative Entrepreneurs was gathered in Tromsø and went to Sommarøya by bus. The event was kicked off by an inspirational speech by Kjell-Ove Hveding, host at Sommarøy Artic Hotel. The presentation was based around positive thinking and how to spot opportunities. Kjell-Ove employed what is known as North-Norwegian narrative art, a skill set which is highly thought of in Norway, in his presentation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Then the Norwegian project manager presented the project and its financiers, and his thoughts on the project and what the projects aimed to achieve. All participants also got a task to share their opinions on the project and what they wanted to achieve by participating.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />At the end of the first day we discussed the importance of entrepreneurship, and how an innovative and competitive business community is dependent on competitions from new companies to be benchmarked continuously and maintain their competitive power. Entrepreneurship is about seeing and seizing opportunities. The natural elongation of this was to talk about the opportunities in the region. We talked about increased biomass in the Barents Sea, The Northers Sea Route, oil and gas, minerals, to mention some. These opportunities may seem intangible to young entrepreneurs and therefore it is important to understand the more tangible opportunities which arise from these huge opportunities in the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The second day all participants joined together in smaller groups and practiced presenting themselves for the group as a whole. When all were ready and had practiced their presentations we had a plenary session where all presented themselves and what area of business they were involved in. This turned out to be an exciting session where several participants did not only talk about themselves, but also what they wanted from the project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a conclusion of the special entrepreneurial part of the programme we focused on creativity and planning. These are two subjects which are not often mentioned in the same sentence, but are of great importance if good ideas are to be brooded and hatched. We also had a short session on how this can be implemented in a business plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally we had a team building event where the participants learned about their personal comfort zones and how to reach outside of them as well as how group dynamics work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To sum it up it was a successful event where the participants where anchored within the group, and new impulses and enthusiasm were created. We are looking forward to the continuation!<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> -Morten</span>Young Innovative Entrepreneurs projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511008456655018203noreply@blogger.com0