University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective

Antti Ainamo; Ergo Pikas; Kari Mikkelä

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68201-9_28

University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective

Antti Ainamo^*, Ergo Pikas, Kari Mikkelä

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Abstract

In many universities, a continuum and a variety of startup pre-accelerators, startup accelerators; entrepreneurs, investors, and other support actors, are in place to facilitate entrepreneurship and that student startups emerge. In this paper, we describe how the entrepreneurial ecosystem in and Aalto University works. We describe how Aalto’s students explore and develop ideas that exhibit “radical creativity”; how faculty and staff at Aalto nurture a “platform of trust” whereby such ideas are not only allowed but also expected; and how “outside entrepreneurs and investors” from the outside come in to work with the best ideas and startups thus developed. The paper proposes implications for policy and management practice in terms of possible import of this model into entrepreneurial ecosystems in and around other universities and other kinds of contexts, and makes a call for further research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL2020
Editors	Michael E. Auer, Tiia Rüütmann
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	28
Pages	269-276
Number of pages	8
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-68201-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-68200-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68201-9_28
Publication status	Published - 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning - Virtual, Online Duration: 23 Sept 2020 → 25 Sept 2020 Conference number: 23

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	1329
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning
Abbreviated title	ICL
City	Virtual, Online
Period	23/09/2020 → 25/09/2020

Keywords

Entrepreneurial ecosystem
Platform ecosystem
Platform of trust
Radical creativity

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Ainamo, A., Pikas, E., & Mikkelä, K. (2021). University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective. In M. E. Auer, & T. Rüütmann (Eds.), Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL2020 (Vol. 2, pp. 269-276). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1329). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68201-9_28

Ainamo, Antti ; Pikas, Ergo ; Mikkelä, Kari. / University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective. Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL2020. editor / Michael E. Auer ; Tiia Rüütmann. Vol. 2 Springer, 2021. pp. 269-276 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Ainamo, A, Pikas, E & Mikkelä, K 2021, University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective. in ME Auer & T Rüütmann (eds), Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL2020. vol. 2, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1329, Springer, pp. 269-276, International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Virtual, Online, 23/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68201-9_28

University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective. / Ainamo, Antti; Pikas, Ergo; Mikkelä, Kari.
Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL2020. ed. / Michael E. Auer; Tiia Rüütmann. Vol. 2 Springer, 2021. p. 269-276 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1329).

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Ainamo A, Pikas E, Mikkelä K. University Ecosystem for Student Startups : A ‘Platform of Trust’ Perspective. In Auer ME, Rüütmann T, editors, Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL2020. Vol. 2. Springer. 2021. p. 269-276. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68201-9_28

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