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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE I&E ECOSYSTEM (2018) =
== Stategy #1: ==
'''''<span style="font-size:medium;">Malena and Agustina will lead this project.</span>'''''
After analyzing the landscape canvas, we identified that our university doesn’t have a physical place for the innovation ecosystem.
Our challenge:
<p style="text-align: center;">'''''How may we create a place exclusively for the innovation ecosystem where I&E is stimulated and encouraged?'''''</p>
Our objective, is to redesign the cowork space so that it becomes a common place to innovate and undertake. In this way we can centralize the I&E in one spot and establish its concept within the university. This co-work would facilitate the promotion of different I&E-related activities and the collaboration among people who are interested in different projects.
Even though this physical place already exists, it isn’t used as a place to collaborate, socialize and stimulate innovation.Instead, most students just go there to study individually for exams. So, how do we change the way in which students use the co-work of Santander?
Our conclusion was that we need a change of approach or, in other words, we should change the way people perceive this place and its purpose. In order to do that, we are going to promote the Co-work as a place where students can go and start a project, a place to become an entrepreneur and innovator. We want to generate an integrated network in which people can share their knowledge and help each other.
Secondly, we will provide a large variety of materials, both stationery materials such as blackboards, markers, post-it’s, legos and technological devices such as computers, projector, and a lot of plugs (which are really necessary).
We also want to redesign the walls, creating in these areas opportunities to interact with each other.
#A brainstorming wall, in which people can write questions, leave messages, ask for advice, etc.
#A “linking board” in which people can write their name, career, what they can give others (in terms of knowledge), if they need help in a project, and a contact number.
*'''Step #1:''' Talk to Magdalena Giuria, Íthaka’s director, to find out the relation between Santander Bank and the university so as to identify the person in charge of the Co-work.
*'''Step #2:''' Speak with the responsible of the Co-work, show him the prototype and ask him for approval.
*'''Step #3:''' Quote a price for the redesign of the co-work.
*'''Step #4:''' Ask Íthaka and/or Students Affairs for financial support. Negotiate and adapt budget.
*'''Step #5:''' Purchase the items and arrange them in the Co-work.
*'''Step #6: '''Come up with ideas for the promotion of the new space.
== Strategy #2: Organizing exisiting I&E activities ''-Passport to Ithaka-'' ==
We feel as there is a lack of connection between Íthaka’s mentoring of the project and the process that occurs before it. In other words, we believe that there isn’t enough information on what a student initially needs to do if he/she wants to “emprender”. íthaka’s mentoring of the project is excellent for a more advanced stage but not for the initial stage. Moreover, UCU offers very good workshops, courses and speeches but there isn’t a common thread that leads the students through all of these.
Our challenge:
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">'''''How may we link or connect the different I&E activities and offer a more guided process?'''''</p>
The idea is to create a guide for students who want to get involved in the I&E ecosystem but don’t really know how. The guide, called Passport to Íthaka, would present all the I&E activities in which they can participate. These would be organized according to the experience required in “Baby steps activities” and “Nurturing stage activities”. The last-stage activities would be based on the knowledge acquired in the first-stage activities and would have as a final objective the presentation of an innovative idea to Íthaka. The “Passport to Íthaka” would be a website in which students could see all the activities together with theirs descriptions, reviews and dates.
It should be noted that we, the candidates to fellows, would be incharge of keeping up to date, promoting and creating the activities.
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*'''Step #1: '''Schedule a meeting with Students Affairs (Martín Pérez) and Íthaka (Magdalena Giuria) to ask for approval.
*'''Step #2: '''Look through all the activities of the UCU and organize them in: “Baby steps activities” and “Nurturing Stage activities”.
*'''Step #3: '''Make a team of advanced Computer Science students to design the website.
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE I&E ECOSYSTEM (2017) =
= <span style="font-size:x-large;">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-48364397-db40-547a-3fef-3e3a9f5fe45e"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic #1: Launch an I&E Fair</span></span>'''</span> =
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