Jan is Director of Studies on the programme Advanced Business Creation (BBA) in the Academy for Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Avans University. Furthermore, Jan is founder and director at the Innovative Dutch, developer of online business strategy games in the field of innovation management.
ACEON Group is currently working closely with University of Wolverhampton in various projects. According to the Managing Director, Mr. Mark Thompson, his collaboration with the university generates a wide range of benefits for all the parties involved. Currently, he is working in two projects together with the university:
1) The Challenge Academy, working together with the University of Wolverhampton Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences (FOSS) supporting a platform that enables companies to post problems where students and academics can work together to solve company’s problem, and;
2) The Built Environment Climate Change Innovations (BECCI) project, involves helping businesses develop new or improved energy efficient products, engage with housing providers in the region to support the use of more green products and give companies access to the latest information and knowledge on low carbon technologies.
Recently, AceOn was not only shortlisted by the Accord Group to attend a Dragon’s Den-style event competing with other 6 companies, but also triumphly won the grant to come out with a sustainable battery home storage system. Not only that, by participating on the Challenge Academy platform, the company managed to receive interesting ideas and solutions on its supply chain issue, shared on the platform.
Mr. Thompson also shares his experiences in growing his business with the university students who are interested in opening up their own business. For him, successful university-industry collaborations should achieve mutual benefits, that is, ensuring that an appropriate balance between academic objectives and industrial priorities is achieved. He also added that Ensuring students to have relevant skills once they graduated are crucial; and perhaps from his opinion, students attending knowledge sharing sessions with companies may be able to helps academic in doing their task.
During the month of October and November 2014, the Higher Education Institutions and the Research Institute that are part of the project organized one workshop at their institution. The aim of this activity was to raise awareness about the benefits that the platform could bring to their users. There were a total of 8 workshops, one for each country of the partnership.
We would like to invite you to discover what we have done during this year. We prepare a small intermediate results presentation for you. It only takes 5 minutes and will give you an overview of what we aim to achieve with the project.
The IULCOME is an initiative that promotes the integration of the new bachelor students of ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) – Business School, School of Sociology and Public Policy, School of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences and School of Technology and Architecture.
The University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz was established in 1993. It is one of the largest non-public institutions of higher education in Poland. The university has eleven faculties and provide bachelor, master, postgraduate, PhD studies and courses for various target groups. UHE focus on educational research, innovative teaching and e-learning.
The AceOn group was formed to specialise in solar and portable energy products. The current directors have over twenty years experience in this market and the group has four main divisions; Univercell Battery Company, AceOn Solar, AceOn Battery and Solar SDS™ Generators.
Varna Free University is a Bulgarian University.
We present to you the Bulgarian team.
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Futursolutions is a Portuguese company.
We asked them about their motivations and benefits to use the Challenge Academy Platform.
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The Challenge Academy is a crowdsourcing platform that fosters to enhance the links between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Research Institutes (RI) and Organizations (public, private and non-profit). On October 2014 the Challenge Academy will be presented to the world!