Helsinki School of Creative Entrepreneurship (HSCE) was established in late 2005 to act as a catalyst to develop the entrepreneurial capacity and to stimulate and support research commercialization efforts in the Helsinki region. HSCE draws upon the talent pool of Finland’s leading design (TaiK), business (HSE), and technical (TKK) universities. Start-up funding and support has been provided by Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiö, the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen, the Ministry of Interior, and from the Helsinki Metropolitan Development Agency, Culminatum.

In describing this collaborative initiative as a “school”, the network  firmly establishes the importance of education as our primary mission. Operating in close cooperation with, but at arm’s length from the universities, HSCE is able to experiment with high impact approaches to entrepreneurial education that would be difficult to undertake or finance within the current framework in which universities operate. HSCE students will benefit from the insights of leading “thinkers” and “practitioners” of entrepreneurship.

The aim of the HSCE is to increase academic entrepreneurship and mobility across university and campus borders, and to attract foreign students interested in entrepreneurship to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.

Helsinki School of Creative Entrepreneurship is a multi-disciplinary expertise-based and enterprise-oriented education programme project between the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology.

The first students are starting at the HSCE in early 2007. Finance for the preparation and pilote phase of the programme has been received from the Urban Programme and the Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiö, i.e. the foundation for the 100th anniversary of the Technology Industries of Finland association.

The project is part of the Urban Progamme for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area 2005 - 2007.

Culminatum Ltd Oy
Finland
http://www.culminatum.fi
Mr. Tatu Laurila, tel. +358 20 7619 554

Helsinki School of Creative Entrepreneurship
Otaniemi International Innovation Centre / Tekniikantie 14, Innopoli 2
02015 Espoo
Finland
Dr. Peter Kelly (Director), tel. + 358 41 503 4508

01/11/2005

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