How Venture Investors and Universities Share Information About Interesting Startups and Technologies
Friman, Mika (2011)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2011
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201105188409
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201105188409
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In the globalizing world need of new innovations is expanding all the time and new technologies are needed more and more. Traditional companies in traditional industries like paper industry, metal industry and so on, have little by little lost their standing for new innovative companies and technologies.
In Finland people are waiting for the economic boom and rising of the Nokia but the actions to make it possible are trailing behind. There have been a lot development in those actions and government is really working on those to create a ground for the new innovations. It is little by little realized that the role of the universities is very important in creating economic growth and new innovations. Still there are plenty to do; connecting universities to the companies and vice versa is something that needs to be planned. Then the importance of university based startups, how to make them successful and that way boost the economic growth, universities should be in the middle of young startups and economy and somehow make it possible for innovative startups to grow something big. Being an intermediary for this kind of different entities need new kinds of information sharing methods. Traditional ways of sharing contacts and calling contacts are working, but far too slow. New situations need new methods of sharing information, and these channels are something not understood at the moment.
Answers were looked for from three different sources, from Venture Capitalists who have hands-on experience of the ecosystem, websites of highly classified universities around the world and blog posts of entrepreneurs and VCs who have hands-on experience from the startup’s point of view.
Results consist of three aspects. First of all, list of different types of social media to be mobilized on ACE’s daily operations and used in collaboration with different customer entities. Second, improvements to be implemented to ACE’s website, and last but not least, the role ACE should be taking as organizer of events and promoting of different entrepreneurship related events.
In conclusion would say that results are themselves making it possible for ACE to have more visibility and respect from other universities around the globe but also from the startups and Venture Capitalists. Everyone working on this field of industry knows that there are plenty to do, but so few who are really doing something, at least in Finnish scale.
In Finland people are waiting for the economic boom and rising of the Nokia but the actions to make it possible are trailing behind. There have been a lot development in those actions and government is really working on those to create a ground for the new innovations. It is little by little realized that the role of the universities is very important in creating economic growth and new innovations. Still there are plenty to do; connecting universities to the companies and vice versa is something that needs to be planned. Then the importance of university based startups, how to make them successful and that way boost the economic growth, universities should be in the middle of young startups and economy and somehow make it possible for innovative startups to grow something big. Being an intermediary for this kind of different entities need new kinds of information sharing methods. Traditional ways of sharing contacts and calling contacts are working, but far too slow. New situations need new methods of sharing information, and these channels are something not understood at the moment.
Answers were looked for from three different sources, from Venture Capitalists who have hands-on experience of the ecosystem, websites of highly classified universities around the world and blog posts of entrepreneurs and VCs who have hands-on experience from the startup’s point of view.
Results consist of three aspects. First of all, list of different types of social media to be mobilized on ACE’s daily operations and used in collaboration with different customer entities. Second, improvements to be implemented to ACE’s website, and last but not least, the role ACE should be taking as organizer of events and promoting of different entrepreneurship related events.
In conclusion would say that results are themselves making it possible for ACE to have more visibility and respect from other universities around the globe but also from the startups and Venture Capitalists. Everyone working on this field of industry knows that there are plenty to do, but so few who are really doing something, at least in Finnish scale.