Aalto Ventures Program
Introduction 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 with
Inspiration, Capability and Network
necessary to build new scalable businesses
Key figures
3 Academic years
1600
10000
For-credit students
Not-for-credit students
70
37%
26%
Nationalities
Foreign
Female
Offering
Inspiration
Talks, Events, Workshops
Master classes
Capability
Courses
AVP Minor
Network
Alumni & Mentor network
Global projects, Study trips
INSPIRATION
Urban Challenge - Students learned to build extraordinary 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 Minor
Introduction
• Changemakers
• Opportunity Prototyping
• Introduction to IT Business
and Venturing
Project Courses
• 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
Core Curriculum
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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
Feedback from Students
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.”
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
Aalto Fellows
in Israel
Joint program
with Tongji
avp.aalto.fi
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