Name: G47: Challenge driven education for entrepreneurship and innovation – combining the use of digital and physical space to build innovation capacity
Start: 2020-11-26T08:30:00+0100
End: 2020-11-26T10:30:00+0100

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G47: Challenge driven education for entrepreneurship and innovation – combining the use of digital and physical space to build innovation capacity

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Supporting innovation capacity in local communities through education and innovation spaces.
As part of an ongoing collaboration between UCT, South Africa and Global Development Hub at KTH, Sweden, we are exploring different ways to support global sustainable development. In this effort, we are exploring how to develop online courses to train university students in addressing real-life sustainability challenges in Cape Town townships. The ambition is to create courses where students from different disciplines collaborate with the local community to identify and create innovative solutions and business models that are addressing pressing needs.
This workshop session will explore online education in connection to innovation and entreprenurship spaces, for example living labs.
How can physical and digital spaces improve our students innovation and entrepreneurial competence?
How can we build innovation capacity to address pressing needs in local communities characterized by high levels of inequalities and low levels of integration?
The purpose is to investigate the interest for collaboration and participation in
a) online challenge driven education (CDE) courses in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship;
b) investigating how physical spaces supporting innovation and entrepreneurship that address pressing needs in local areas, can be developed.

We warmly welcome participants from different academic disciplines and participants outside academia that have an interest in the overall question!

Workshop agenda:
08:30 Welcome and purpose with the workshop (Susanne Nilsson)

08:35 Background
Innovation and entrepreneurship programs and courses at UCT Solution Space (Mikael Samuelsson and Ndileka Zantsi)
KTH Global Development Hub (GDH) and Challenge Driven Education (CDE) (Jesper Vasell)
Creating a space for innovation and entrepreneurship in Södertälje? (Karin Callin, Scania)

08:50 Break-out discussions
Examples of questions to be discussed:
What CDE courses would be valuable for you to send students to and what courses would you like to develop using CDE and the Solution Space methodology? What support would you need to make it happen?
What research would support the development of physical and digital spaces that builds the innovation capacity to address pressing needs in local communities characterized by high levels of inequalities and disintegration? What research questions, research designs etc.?
How could a “Solution Space” look like in Södertälje? What value would it create and for who? How to develop such Space and who needs to be involved?
09:20-0945 Summary and next steps

Keywords: Digital education. Entreprenurship and innovation competence. Challenge driven education. Living labs.

Speakers

Camille Meyer

Sr lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town

Camille's research lies at the intersection of three domains –entrepreneurship, organization theory and sustainability– to explore managerial and organizational issues at the intersection of business and society. His perspective considers entrepreneurial processes to preserve... Read More →