Aalto Ventures ProgramIntroduction to the Program

Sep 2015

Aalto Ventures Program educates students in

entrepreneurial capabilities necessary to build new scalable

businesses in established organizations or as startups.

Our mission is to provide Aalto students withInspiration, Capability and Network

necessary to build new scalable businesses

Key figures

3 Academic years

26%Female

37% Foreign

70 Nationalities

1600For-credit students

10000 Not-for-credit students

Offering

Talks, Events, Workshops Master classesInspiration

CoursesAVP MinorCapability

Alumni & Mentor network Global projects, Study tripsNetwork

INSPIRATION

Urban Challenge - Students learned to build extra-

ordinary customer experiences in NYC

with the US Ambassador to Finland, Mr. Bruce J. Oreck

Thought Leaders’ Talks

Influential talks by global leaders organized every month

CAPABILITY

AVP MinorIntroduction

Project Courses

Core Curriculum

• Changemakers• Opportunity Prototyping• Introduction to IT Business

and Venturing

• Venture Formation • Aalto Service Camp• Growth and Internationalization

of Technology SMEs• Collaborative Innovation Management • Global Team-based Design Innovation • Product Development Project• Internship Innovation Project• Lean Launchpad

• Entrepreneurial Finance• Entrepreneurial Leadership• Entrepreneurial Marketing • Design and Innovation in Context • Managing Innovative Sales• Strategies for Growth and Renewal• Management of a Software

Venture• Technology Entrepreneurship

Seminar• Seminar on ICT-law ,"Exploitation

of IPR" • Shaping Entrepreneurial Thinking• Venture Ideation

Aalto Fellows – A 5-month study & work program for

selected top students including also summer internship

and a study trip to a key entrepreneurial hub

Henri Sipilä“This program is the best learning experience available in Aalto. Great group, excellent content and an attitude of doing.”

Tian Yu“I really liked the Urban Challenge! As a business student, getting hands-on experience in design thinking was truly valuable!”

Heikki Koponen“Aalto Fellows was probably the most educational course of my University studies so far.”

Feedback from Students

NETWORK

AVP AFFILIATES

Aalto Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Ranked among the best 5 rising university-led startup ecosystems in the world*

* Graham, Ruth (2014) Creating university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from emerging world leaders. MIT-Skoltech Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

International Collaboration

Urban Challenge

Joint program with Tongji

Aalto Fellows in Israel

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