The course aims to motivate students to entrepreneurship and to produce promising business ideas. The specific objectives are as follows; 1) to develop students` skills in commercialisation and in developing meaningful value propositions for companies, 2) to learn teamwork skills in a multidisciplinary and international teams, 3) to help students to understand the characteristics defining some of the most successful business start-ups, and 4) to help students to build a business model and/or a project based on a group work that is developed by the students during the course.

Participation in team work. Students are to develop a concept for the purposes’ of commercialisation and establishing an actual business model/project. Collaboration with other teams, taking part in the coaching events, and finally presenting the results in a public event are required.

Enrollment periods tbc.

For further information, please contact Demola staff: http://tampere.demola.net/about#contact.

Demola contact persons at the School of Management

Administrative studies: University Lecturer Markus Laine, Professor Harri Laihonen
Business studies: University Lecturer Janne Ruohonen, University Lecturer Kari Lohivesi
Politics: Professor Elina Kestilä-Kekkonen

Information on and registration for the Demola course, please see http://tampere.demola.net/ . After finalizing the project and approval of the official team report on the project, please, email the official report of the team, including the name of your team facilitator,  to the Demola contact person (please see above)  for the registration of the credits.