In the morning our group sat down and started to specify the Rainforest Canvas, which should give an overview of the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem of Malmö. Like this, we want to identify starting points to foster this ecosystem.
Around lunch we visited the Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto (http://innovationhousesf.wordpress.com) and met with Sten Kristian Mydland. This institution provides services for entrepreneurs and companies from Scandinavia. Their services vary from very practical things like providing an address or office space to organizing get togethers. One company, which is present there at the moment, is Kubicam. It does development on high-resolution multi channel cameras for web conferencing.
On our way to the campus we stopped at an American Dinner and had Milkshakes for lunch.
Tom Byers hosted the afternoon session. Tom is professor for Entrepreneurship and focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship education. Therefore, Tom was talking about why and how to teach entrepreneurship. An important statement he made is that Stanford is not very much different than other places. It might have slightly more students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. He estimated the amount to 5%. At Stanford the focus is on teaching an entrepreneurship process and an entrepreneurial attitude. Tom also recognises that this might need up to 40 years to show an impact on society. An entrepreneurship curriculum could be built up around 7 pillars: See opportunities, develop a strategy, apply scientific methods, find investors, build a team, become T-shaped, grow a start up.
On our way over the campus we found an installation called Gay Liberation Sculpture by George Segal.
After the picture we saw the sign: ”Do not touch.” Ups, sorry George.