Online course / Independent work with weekly materials and assignments.

Course description

How can startups help established companies to innovate?

What are the mutual benefits when large companies collaborate with startups?

The future seems to be unknowable and unmeasurable, whilst the business environment has become more and more complex and uncertain. Therefore, innovation has become a precondition of business survival. Future-oriented corporations are creating opportunities and co-operating with fast, creative startups to jointly disrupt whole industries. Corporations’ interest towards startup collaboration has reached a new level due to the digital transformation. Research results have also shown that collaboration with startups affects positively corporations’ business transformation.

However, only a few companies utilise fully this collaboration potential. This MOOC will guide you on the path towards a mutually beneficial collaboration, both from the perspective of corporates and startups.

After course completition you can follow up in another MOOC: Co-innovating in Practice

Important dates

REGISTRATION DATES: 19 December 2022 23 February 2023

COURSE DATES: 27 February 2023 25 March 2023

Link for registration

METHOD: Online

LEVEL: Bachelor, Master and PhD

TOPICS: Entrepreneurship

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Online

ECTS: 1

ORGANIZED BY: Haaga Helia University of Applied Sciences

Learning outcomes

Understand the key concepts

Recognize the benefits and challenges of Startup-Corporate collaboration

Examine partners in co-innovation processes and distinguish and explore existing formats of collaboration

Course content

Concepts of corporate entrepreneurship

Intrapreneurship and open innovation

Benefits and challenges of startup-corporate collaboration and the urgency of innovation

Formats of collaboration

Characteristics of partners and how to facilitate co-innovation

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