The first session of the "Fire Starting Innovation Circle" took place last Wednesday, April 6, and was dedicated to the theme Health and Well-Being. The second took place one day later, and focused on the theme Financial Services and Sustainable Finance.
Innovation Circles are active networks of corporate teams, start-ups and innovation centres linked to the expertise of Nova SBE students, faculty and alumni , which aim to create an agenda of cutting-edge collaborative work and happy happenings, promoting disruptive innovation in five differentiated areas: Financial Services & Sustainable Finance; Smart Cities & Communities; Health & Well Being; Space, Green & Blue Economy; and Hospitality & Customer Journey.
The "Fire Starting the Innovation Circle" sessions will take place in April and early May and aim to introduce the Innovation Circles to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship community, as well as the Innovation Ecosystem membership programme, and at the same time, promote a networking moment between the stakeholders of each circle.
During the sessions, the Innovation Ecosystem agenda will also be presented with regard to the 4 types of initiatives that each Innovation Circle will develop during this period:
- Open Innovation with Start-ups - Discussion on the challenges to be framed in the accelerator to define the scope of start-up scouting.
- Open Innovation with Peers - Presentation of the calendar and incorporation of feedback and other contributions for potential adjustments to it. This calendar includes a range of events such as talks by international experts, social events, presentations by circle members, policy debates, cross-innovation bootcamps.
- Open Innovation with Researchers - Presentation of potential research areas to consider and gather feedback from the community.
- Open Innovation with Students - Presentation of the projects that Master's students may carry out in partner companies, cases and impact, the projects and possibilities to develop and enhance synergies between the various actors of innovation processes.
In addition to the two sessions taking place this week, the following sessions are scheduled, which will be led by Rui Coutinho, Executive Director of the Nova SBE Innovation Ecosystem in conversation with key stakeholders in each theme:
- 19 April - Smart Cities & Communities
- Smart cities - Mobility - Smart governance
As one of the leading European municipalities in smart city management, Cascais is a unique laboratory for testing the future. Nova SBE's partnership with CEiiA provides a unique academic basis to achieve this goal.
- 26 April - Hospitality & Customer Journeys
- Hospitality - Tourism - Retail
The unique expertise that Nova SBE Westmont Institute of Tourism & Hospitality offers allows you to leverage unique hospitality industry knowledge to create customer journeys, online and offline, that help create innovation opportunities.
- 3 May - Space, Green & Blue Economy
- Renewable energy - Oceans and fisheries - Space
Nova SBE's "Space for Business" programme, the Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center, together with the growing interest of its international students, offer the perfect ecosystem to closely study the industries that will exploit sustainable resources in the future: energy, oceans and space.
