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Fellow:Suhaib Aslam

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<div>[[File:Suhaibaslam.jpg|thumb|Suhaibaslam.jpg]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Suhaib is a Technology & Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS) student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, which naturally makes him passionate about technology and solving complex problems. He mainly focuses on design, computer science and interaction technology and is striving to become an entrepreneurial engineer, who is socially engaged and inspired by technology and can collaborate across disciplines: uniquely contributing to a creative and innovative process.</div><div><br/></div><div>Besides ATLAS, Suhaib focuses on being a change agent for education. In his projects, he works alongside entrepreneurs, within startups and in teams that design social-impact products. Suhaib takes active interest in sociotechnical engineering, innovation studies, entrepreneurship and business design. He is part of the University of Twente's Dutch Student Investment Fund and has worked on improving how startups sharpen their funding strategies, through his contribution to the Startup Funding Canvas project. He also has a diverse, international background and loves to integrate cultural insights. He has also completed a service design and innovation internship at the first Innovation and Design agency in Saudi Arabia, and loves to adopt a strategic design perspective on complex problems.<br/></div><div><br/></div>
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<div>Suhaib is a Technology & Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS) student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, which naturally makes him passionate about technology and solving complex problems. He mainly focuses on design, computer science and interaction technology and is striving to become an entrepreneurial engineer, who is socially engaged and inspired by technology and can collaborate across disciplines: uniquely contributing to a creative and innovative process.</div><div><br/></div><div>Besides ATLAS, Suhaib focuses on being a change agent for education. In his projects, he works alongside entrepreneurs, within startups and in teams that design social-impact products. Suhaib takes active interest in sociotechnical engineering, innovation studies, entrepreneurship and business design. He is part of the University of Twente's Dutch Student Investment Fund and has worked on improving how startups sharpen their funding strategies, through his contribution to the Startup Funding Canvas project. He also has a diverse, international background and loves to integrate cultural insights. He has also completed a service design and innovation internship at the first Innovation and Design agency in Saudi Arabia, and loves to adopt a strategic design perspective on complex problems.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>[[File:Suhaibaslam.jpg|thumb|Suhaibaslam.jpg]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
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Fellow:Suhaib Aslam

2018-02-23T22:19:47Z

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<div>Suhaib is a Technology & Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS) student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, which naturally makes him passionate about technology and solving complex problems. He mainly focuses on design, computer science and interaction technology and is striving to become an entrepreneurial engineer, who is socially engaged and inspired by technology and can collaborate across disciplines: uniquely contributing to a creative and innovative process.</div><div><br /></div><div>Besides ATLAS, Suhaib focuses on being a change agent for education. In his projects, he works alongside entrepreneurs, within startups and in teams that design social-impact products. Suhaib takes active interest in sociotechnical engineering, innovation studies, entrepreneurship and business design. He is part of the University of Twente's Dutch Student Investment Fund and has worked on improving how startups sharpen their funding strategies, through his contribution to the Startup Funding Canvas project. He also has a diverse, international background and loves to integrate cultural insights. He has also completed a service design and innovation internship at the first Innovation and Design agency in Saudi Arabia, and loves to adopt a strategic design perspective on complex problems.<br /></div><div><img src="/images/7/79/Suhaibaslam.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Suhaibaslam.jpg" _fck_mw_location="none" _fck_mw_type="thumb" alt="" class="fck_mw_frame fck_mw_right" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

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School:University of Twente

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= Campus Overview =
<p style="text-align: justify;">[[File:UTOverview2.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The University of Twente is a university located in Europe in the city Enschede, of the Netherlands. Founded in 1961 it now holds an approximate of 10.000 students. Originating as a technical university its motto “High Tech, Human Touch” describes how the university connects cutting edge technologies with society.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Being the only university in the country having a campus, the university is located in Twente, the most entrepreneurial region of the Netherlands, with approximately 140 new startups in the region every year. With a Science and Business park across the road and lots of I&E resources the University of Twente has a lot to offer to those willing to create a business.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the past couple of years the University of Twente already went through some educational changes in favour of innovation and entrepreneurship. Its new Twents Education Model (T.E.M.) revolves around a multidisciplinary, project-based approach. One of the big strengths of the university is its student driven activism, where student driven organisations organise and arrange all sorts of things for their fellow students.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The University of Twente is part of the University Innovations Fellows program since Fall 2016. It is the first university in the Netherlands and Europe participating in the program.</p>
"High Tech Human Touch Twente" on the Map: [https://youtu.be/ldMEI7CvrQU https://youtu.be/ldMEI7CvrQU]

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The University of <span data-scaytid="1" data-scayt_word="Twente">Twente</span> provides everything a student may desire to pursue innovation and entrepreneurship. Starting with their first step on campus the students come into contact with the vibrant activities off and on campus.</p>
*'''Kick-In:''' Each year all freshman students kick off there academic career with a week full of activities to discover the university, the students and the city. 

*'''Student-associations: '''Ordering books, excursions to companies, even the sport you love to play is organized and managed by fellow students. Over 100 different associations on and of campus are active in various different ways to make a more complete study life.

*'''Startup and entrepreneurship events: '''such as the three day <span data-scaytid="11" data-scayt_word="StartupLaunch">StartupLaunch</span> weekend, the International Startup Challenge and the <span data-scaytid="12" data-scayt_word="EntrepreneurialU">EntrepreneurialU</span> organized each year at on the campus of the university.

*'''<span data-scaytid="14" data-scayt_word="DesignLab">DesignLab</span>'': '''''sience2design4society, the DesignLab provides a creative ecosystem for connecting the science to society. In this space students from all fields of study work together to create all the crazy idea they have!

*'''Internationalisation Department: '''Each year they organise two very interesting events, the CuriuousU summer school and the PreU promoting innovation and entrepeneurship among high school students. This makes students looking at joining the UT aware of the highly innovation driven mindset of the current students.

*'''Week of Inspiration:''' As a yearly event, the week of inspiration is organised by student and meant to broaden the knowledge areas of students. Many lectures relate to real world problems that fuel the innovative mindset of the UT students.

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">Research at the University of Twente is aimed to have a social and economic impact. With research instututes focussed on nanotechnology, ICT, biomedical technology, technical medicine, governance & behavioural sciences, engineering, geo-information sciences and earth observation the knowledge generation is not just at a high technical level but also impactfull for society. All summarized in its motto:</p>
*'''High Tech-Human Touch: '''Connecting the research involving cutting edge high tech on campus with the (current) problems of society.

The UT has many research departments that represent faculty making strides in the area of innovation and entrepeneurship. Details about research at the UT:

*1,500 researchers work on a daily base on relevant societal challenges in a variety of disciplines
*deliver over 2,700 publications a year, providing valuable input for scientific excellence and laying the foundations for new knowledge-based spin-offs
*'''NIKOS: '''Research group at the UT that focuses on innovation and entrepeneurship. The try to bring this to the students through a entrepenurial summer school, EntrepeneurialU, and provide a minor for all students where they teach about innovation and entrepeneurship.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">''Coming Soon: There is currenty no technology transfer office at the University of Twente.''</p>
== '''Facilitating university-industry collaboration''' ==

Located in the heart of the Dutch start-up scheme the University of <span data-scaytid="3" data-scayt_word="Twente">Twente</span> is surrounded by organizations providing the knowledge and experience for beginning businesses to evolve.

*'''<span data-scaytid="32" data-scayt_word="Kennispark">Kennispark</span>:''' "<span data-scaytid="71" data-scayt_word="Kennis" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kennis</span>" is the Dutch word for knowledge, the <span data-scaytid="41" data-scayt_word="Kennispark">Kennispark</span> is a business and science park located across from the university and is home to new and developing innovative businesses. It being an incubator it is also a center of mentoring and support for starting businesses.

== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The region <span data-scaytid="1" data-scayt_word="Twente">Twente</span> but also independent organizations are able to provide startups with the necessary economical support. All of these are readily available for students, a few of them are even specifically aimed at entrepreneurial students.</p>
*'''Dutch Student Investment Fund:''' An organization run by students in the European Union  that helps to turn ideas into reality. The <span data-scaytid="47" data-scayt_word="DSIF">DSIF</span> provides help with your idea, prototyping, financing and finding customers
*'''Young Technology Awards: '''An event run by the <span data-scaytid="62" data-scayt_word="Twente">Twente</span> region to place start-ups in the national spotlight.
*'''Fund the future: '''A funding event run by <span data-scaytid="74" data-scayt_word="Kennispark">Kennispark</span> and Powered by <span data-scaytid="76" data-scayt_word="Twente">Twente</span> organisations

= Related links =

=== University Website ===
<p style="text-align: justify;">[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente]</p>
=== Wiki pages ===
<p style="text-align: justify;">'''University of Twente'''</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[[University of Twente Student Priorities|University of Twente Student Priorities]]</p>
=== University Innovation Fellows ===

==== '''Fall 2016''' ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

[[Jos van 't Hof|Jos van 't Hof]]

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

==== '''Spring 2017''' ====

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

[[Lennart van de Velde|Lennart van de Velde]]

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

==== '''Fall 2017''' ====

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Rianne Hagen]]

[[Titus Venverloo]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

[[File:UniversityOfTwenteSign.jpeg]]

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Organization:Design Factory Global Network

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= Overview =

[https://dfgn.org/ Design Factory Global Network (DFGN)] is a network of innovation hubs in universities and research organisations in five continents of the world. DFGN is on a mission to create change in the world of learning and research through passion-based culture and effective problem solving. Shared understanding and common ways of working enable Design Factories in the network to collaborate efficiently across cultures, time zones and organisational boundaries fostering radical innovations.

[https://vimeo.com/240992200 [DFGN Video]]

= Purpose =

All Design Factories are created to drive change in the local context, whether it is hosted by a university or a research institution

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

Becoming a member of the DFGN allows universities and research institutions to focus on their local interests with the support of a global network. The global partnerships open up opportunities for cross-continental collaborations.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

All local Design Factories operate as physical platforms to enable interactions between different stakeholders, bringing together research, education and business practitioners to create a new learning culture and opportunities for continuous development.

Design Factories provide hands-on learning experiences for students in real life challenges and industry projects. For businesses, Design Factories offer an environment for finding and realising new ideas together with leading scholars, top future talent and other companies. Researchers have the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research together with industry partners.

= Notes About How This Resource is Deployed =

DFGN has partners at eleven sites on five different continents. 

*Aalto Design Factory, Helsinki, Finland
*Aalto-Tongji Design Factory, Shanghai, China
*Swinburne Design Factory, Melbourne, Australia
*Duoc Design Factory, Santiago, Chile
*IdeaSquare CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
*Design Factory Korea, Seoul, Korea
*Porto Design Factory, Porto, Portugal
*Philadelphia University Nexus Design Factory, Philadelphia, USA
*Frisian Design Factory, the Netherlands
*Riga Technical University Design Factory, Latvia
*Pace University, New York, USA

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

For more information about creating a design factory on your own campus, contact Viljami Lyytikäinen at [mailto:viljami.lyytikainen@aalto.fi viljami.lyytikainen@aalto.fi].

= Contact Information =

DFGN has a small team in Aalto University looking after the development of the network.

Viljami Lyytikäinen<br/>Design Factory Global Network<br/>viljami.lyytikainen@aalto.fi

Päivi Oinonen<br/>Design Factory Global Network<br/>paivi.oinonen@aalto.fi

= Page Contributors =

[[Suhaib-aslam|Suhaib-aslam]] | [[Maria_Meschi|Maria_Meschi]] | [[JuanEchartea|JuanEchartea]]

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User:Suhaib-aslam

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Organization:Design Factory Global Network

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