On-site Visits: Creative Entrepreneurship Academy 2016

Theme 2016

Designing Creative Ecosystems

Date: January 18-22, 2016
Venue: Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland
Language: English
Participation: Pre-registration required and subject to a fee. 

Contact person for the programme: Ragnar Siil (e-mail: ragnar.siil@creativitylab.ee; phone: +372 514 0830)

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  Tallinn Creative Hub aims to expand Tallinn and Estonia’s cultural scene in collaboration with a range of organisations. The objective is to shape the reconstructed Creative Hub as a development centre for culture exports and the local creative industry, as an attractive part of urban space and as a learning and leisure centre.

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  Telliskivi Creative City is an independent business hub, completely based on private ownership, providing space for over 200 businesses, companies and NGOs operating on the premises. Tenants are fully responsible for the design of their spaces, which is bringing an old industrial area back to life and where existing architecture is finding new and alternative purposes.

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  The Creative Incubator is a place for entrepreneurs who are starting or developing business in the creative industry. It also hosts the Creative Industries Development Centre, which offers creative enterprises and entrepreneurs support which helps them to develop entrepreneurship, encourage internationalization, and promote sales activity on foreign markets.

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  Vertical is an accelerator where deep design skills with wide industry understanding across all disciplines of Health and Digital spaces happen. Vertical helps turn concepts into meaningful products: fit for market, appealing to customers and delightful to users. Vertical is constantly looking to support and collaborate with young, trend-setting entrepreneurs and teams. Their favourite industries are: health and wellness, wearables, smart home.

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  Aalto Design Factory was born from a research project focused on creating an ideal physical and mental working environment for product developers and researchers. Today ADF is one of the spearhead projects and one of the first physical manifestations of Aalto University encouraging and enabling fruitful interaction between students, researchers, and professional practitioners.

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  Start Up Sauna is an accelerator that helps promising early-stage start-ups to get ready for taking the next step, be it entering their market or raising a seed round of funding. Our coaches are some of the most talented serial entrepreneurs, investors and other industry experts in Finland and the surrounding region.

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  Urban Mill is an emerging, global thematic focal point for Urban Innovations. It has 1300 m2 of co-working and co-creation space linked right to the Aalto University Design Factory and the Start Up Sauna. Together these three spaces will act as a physical and social Knowledge Triangle test-bed.

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  Aalto University Digital Design Laboratory, ADD is a research organization initiated by Aalto University’s School of Engineering and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. ADD explores the potential of digital design and manufacturing technologies to create commercially viable, culturally relevant and societally valuable results.

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  Open Innovation House is currently the home of the European Innovation and Technology Institutes’s EIT ICT Labs, the HIIT research centre and the Wärtsilä Innovation Node. Nokia Research Center did have a presence in the building as did AppCampus, a mobile application development programme backed by Nokia and Microsoft. It is still very much open what will be done with this facility that incorporates some very creative design elements.

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  The Cable Factory is the largest cultural centre in Finland. It houses 3 museums, 12 galleries, dance theatres, art schools and a host of artists, bands and companies. Unique spaces are also available for rent on a short-term basis to stage concerts, exhibitions, festivals and fairs. Around 900 people work at the Cable Factory on a daily basis, and each year over 230,000 people attend special events.