Boost Turku Entrepreneurship Society and Business and Innovation Development Center of University of Turku in co-operation with Aalto University wish you most welcome to join us to change the way entrepreneurship is taught in Finland.
“Everything you learn in the business school about large company management is destructive for an early-stage venture. Large corporations execute existing business models, start-ups search for them. The tools needed, techniques needed, and people needed for execution versus search is what we now know to be radically different.“ - Steve Blank
BID and Boost Turku will organize a free transportation from Turku to Espoo and back to learn from serial entrepreneur and entrepreneurship education guru Steve Blank. We will depart in the morning of September 5th at 06:45 from Boost Startup Farm (Tykistökatu 4, 20520 Turku). The buss will be heading back to Turku from Espoo in the evening at 20:30hrs.
Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur, founding part of 8 startup companies in Silicon Valley. His last company E.piphany was listed to stock exchange in 1999 for approximately 2 billion dollars. Today he is best known as a professor of Stanford reforming entrepreneurship education and innovation ecosystems around the world.
The schedule (Monday September 5th)
8:30–10:30
Lecture by Steve Blank “Developing an entrepreneurial curriculum of 21st century”
Organiser: Tuula Teeri, President of Aalto University
Audience: 100+ faculty members from Aalto and other universities, Ministry of Education representatives.
Venue: TU-2 Hall, Otaniementie 17
Aim: Inspire and open the eyes of faculty about entrepreneurship education
RSVP: http://steveblankfaculty.eventbrite.com
11:00–12:00 Lunch time
12:00–15:00
Visit to Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship, Aalto Design Factory and Aalto Venture Garage
Organiser: Boost Turku, Aalto Center of Entrepreneurship, Aalto Design Factory, Aalto Venture Garage
Venue: Design Factory, Aalto Venture Garage, Betonimiehenkatu 3, Otaniemi
Aim: Get to know the way entrepreneurhsip education is handled in Aalto, creating contacts between the universities and faculty members.
17:00–20:00
Lecture by Steve Blank “Why startups are not small versions of large companies"
Organiser: Juhana Nurmio, Aalto University
Audience: Faculty and students from around the Baltic Rim.
Venue: TU-2 Hall, Otaniementie 17
HOW TO GET ON BOARD:
Register to the transportation at http://transportblank.eventbrite.com. Register to the morning and evening sessions at http://steveblankfaculty.eventbrite.com AND http://steveblanktalk.eventbrite.com. Come to the front of Boost Startup Farm (Tykistökatu 4, 20520 Turku) at 06:45 on the morning of September 5th.
More info about Steve Blank and his visit in Finland can be found at www.steveblank.fi.