17.04.2020

Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

In Edupreneurship, companies and educational institutions cooperate to provide valuable practical knowledge. This is more important in the corona crisis than ever before.
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In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges. It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments. At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.

Entrepreneurship is an essential tool to be able to react successfully. Because it does not mean inventing something new or managing the company in difficult times – it means much more to recognize market opportunities, find solutions and implement them successfully.

Just as companies react to new circumstances, educational institutions must constantly adapt and create new learning concepts and content to equip students with the right skills. Edupreneurship describes this process of driving change and developing new learning programs to best meet the challenges of our time.

Corship: An EU-project for Co-Innovation

The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and startups is supported with innovative training formats. The knowledge alliance is funded by the EU and brings together seven industry and research partners: FH Joanneum (AT; coordinator), AVL List GmbH (AT), Cracow University of Economics (PL), Hasso Plattner Institute (DE), BETA-I Incubator (PT) and European Startup Network (BE).

The core element is a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which brings together over 1500 entrepreneurs, managers and students online to learn about the potential, challenges and opportunities for cooperation. The next MOOC starts already on April 22, 2020, and free registration is available under this link.

Toolbox and MasterClass as parts of Corship

A specially developed „toolbox“ facilitates matchmatching and cooperation between the participants. The „Co-Innovation Builder“ is at the centre of the toolbox: This is a kind of business model canvas for collaboration, which is used in the MOOC.

Additonally, the Co-Innovation MasterClass offers 30 startups, managers and students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and work together on Co-Innovation Challenges in two Innovation Bootcamps in Berlin and Krakow.  The Co-Innovation MasterClass will take place in 2021, you can apply for a place via the MOOC .

„With Corship we want to show new ways of connecting key players of the start-up ecosystem through innovative training approaches in order to exploit the full potential of co-innovation,“ says Christian Friedl, Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at FH JOANNEUM.

The project partner AVL List GmbH has been working with innovative startups as part of the Startup Initiative Creators Expedition since 2017 and can therefore contribute valuable experience and learning.

TECC: FH JOANNEUM cooperates with companies

Another example of Edupreneurship, in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC (Training On Entrepreneurship & Company Creation).

The Institute for International Management at FH JOANNEUM, together with its partners AVL List, Raiffeisenlandesbank Steiermark and 360Lab, launched the project „TECC – Training for Enterprise and Company Creation“ at the beginning of March 2020. The aim of the project is to enable students to develop creative ideas on an interdisciplinary, hands-on basis and to take them through to maturity in a 2-semester applied training programme. Students from different courses of study at the FH Joanneum Graz are admitted to this project. The programme offers a mixture of teaching, seminars, company visits and pitching sessions.

„At TECC not only students learn from the partner organisations. Through close cooperation with the student teams, we also learn for our activities at Raiffeisen TATEN-Bank. We learn where startup customers need support from a bank at an early stage and where we should dive deeper into the startup business in the future,“ says Martina Hölzl, Startups & Digitalization, Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark AG.

TACC: Training for entrepreneurship in the automotive industry

AVL List has already been able to gain experience in this area, as TACC (Training for Automotive Companies Creation) was already developed in 2018.

TACC is also a new training concept with a focus on entrepreneurship – but with a specialization on the automotive industry. With a strong technological component, TACC offers orientation in the rapidly changing automotive industry – a course for those who want to understand, study and explore the world of entrepreneurship and innovation in the automotive industry. For this purpose AVL cooperates with the University of Modena UNIMORE and regional partners of the Automotive Innovation Hub. The output after two semesters is a business case for starting your own startup.

„With TACC we want to promote the entrepreneurial spirit of young people by creating a link between universities, incubation centres and companies. As part of the Automotive Innovation Hub, the initiative enables us to respond optimally to trends in the automotive sector“, says Marta Pellegrino, Program Coordinator TACC.

The target group of this program are motivated students who want to start their own business and acquire the necessary skills. The program includes classes with the participation of experienced managers, participation in national and international trade fairs, workshops, company visits, complementary seminars, prototyping, and design and validation sessions for the planned startup project.

Further information about TACC can be found via this link.

„With programs such as TACC and TECC, we not only want to support the founding process of new startups, but also want to give students the entrepreneurial mindset that we consider essential in today’s working world. It is not only about developing their own ideas, but also about the skills to implement these ideas,“ concludes Viktoria Ilger, Creators Expedition AVL Startup Initiative, summing up the programs.

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TEDAI-Kuratorin Alina Nikolaou: „Dieses Jahr kuratieren wir für Kollision“

Von 28. bis 30. Oktober geht die TEDAI in der Wiener Hofburg in die dritte Runde. Alina Nikolaou, Co-Founder, Director & Curator der TEDAI, spricht über die Entscheidung für Wien und über ein Programm, das bewusst Widerspruch inszeniert.
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10.08.2026

TEDAI-Kuratorin Alina Nikolaou: „Dieses Jahr kuratieren wir für Kollision“

Von 28. bis 30. Oktober geht die TEDAI in der Wiener Hofburg in die dritte Runde. Alina Nikolaou, Co-Founder, Director & Curator der TEDAI, spricht über die Entscheidung für Wien und über ein Programm, das bewusst Widerspruch inszeniert.
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Alina Nikolaou, Co-Founder, Director und Kuratorin von TEDAI Vienna. | (c) Florentina Olareanu

Geoffrey Hinton, Peter Steinberger, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Kauna Ibrahim Malgwi und Nenad Tomašev von Google DeepMind stehen bei der dritten TEDAI in der Wiener Hofburg auf der Bühne. Ein Honorar bekommt keiner von ihnen. Stattdessen arbeitet Alina Nikolaou drei bis sechs Monate mit jedem Speaker am Skript, in zwei bis vier Calls, danach folgen Rhetorik-Coaching und ein Fact-Checking der Inhalte.

Im Interview erklärt die Co-Founder, Director & Curator der TEDAI, wie dieser Prozess abläuft, warum das Programm heuer gegensätzliche Positionen direkt nacheinander setzt und wie die Konferenz überhaupt nach Wien kam.


brutkasten: Wie kam die TEDAI nach Wien und nicht nach San Francisco?

Alina Nikolaou: Seit circa 2010 gibt es TEDxVienna, damals ein Verein, der eine eintägige Veranstaltung im Volkstheater organisiert hat. Aufgrund der kuratoriellen Qualität und der Reichweite der Talks hat sich Ende 2023 die Mutterkonferenz TED HQ bei uns gemeldet, mit der Idee, das TEDAI-Format nach Europa zu bringen. In San Francisco gab es das damals schon ein Jahr lang als Pilot. Interesse hatten viele Städte, die Klassiker wie London, Paris und Berlin. Wien ist ja keine klassische KI-Stadt, wie es Paris oder Zürich wären. Trotzdem haben wir uns nach mehreren Runden für Wien entschieden: wegen der inhaltlichen Ausrichtung, die sich wie ein roter Faden durch die letzten drei Jahre zieht, wegen Wien als Weltstadt und UN-Stadt, in die unterschiedlichste Disziplinen und Kulturen reisen, und wegen des Fokus auf Lebensqualität und auf Innovation, nicht um der Innovation willen, sondern um der Menschheit ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen. Heuer sind wir die einzige TEDAI weltweit, weil die Organisatoren in San Francisco es strategisch nicht weiter vorantreiben wollten. Dort häufen sich so viele KI-Events, dass sich das in der DNA des Ökosystems absorbiert. Ein KI-Event in Europa sticht stärker hervor.

Wie hat sich das Programm inhaltlich entwickelt?

Im ersten Jahr lag der Fokus stark auf Grundlagenbildung. Große Sprachmodelle waren plötzlich da und wurden fleckenhaft, experimentell verwendet. Wir haben eine Einführung gegeben, für die Personen vor Ort und für jene, die die Talks später online sehen. Die zweite Ausgabe hatte das Augenmerk darauf, dass KI in der Arbeitswelt angelangt ist. Was bedeutet das strategisch für Unternehmen und für die Infrastruktur, auf der KI beruht, und was bedeutet es auf der Mikroebene für unser kritisches Denken? Dieses Jahr sehen wir verstärkt, wie KI in der Gesellschaft agiert, von Aktivismus für oder gegen KI bis zu Sicherheits- und geopolitischen Fragen und paradigmenwechselnden Fragen in der Medizin. Es ist das breiteste Programm, das wir je hatten. Wie ich immer sage: Dieses Jahr kuratieren wir für Kollision. Es wird viele Speaker geben, die gegensätzliche Meinungen vertreten, teilweise direkt nacheinander, sodass sich das Publikum am Abend selbst eine Meinung bilden kann. Genau dort entsteht Innovation.

Wer kommt zur TEDAI?

Die Zielgruppe ist divers, von der Wirtschafts- und Bildungswelt über Startups und KMU bis zu Konzernen, die anfangs zwei Personen geschickt haben und mittlerweile zwanzigköpfige Delegationen. Der gemeinsame Nenner: Es sind Entscheidungsträger:innen, die oft über Budget verfügen und über den Tellerrand hinausblicken möchten. Im ersten Jahr kamen fast 70 Prozent des Publikums von außerhalb Österreichs, die größten Delegationen aus Deutschland, UK und Frankreich. Im zweiten Jahr waren rund 40 Prozent aus Österreich, was für uns ein Erfolg war. Letztes Jahr waren 65 Länder vor Ort.

Was macht das Format aus?

Wir haben eine klare Regel: keine Demo-Booths, höchstens künstlerische Installationen oder spielerische Exhibits. Dafür gibt es am zweiten Tag parallel Workshops, Reflexionsrunden und sogenannte Ideas Adventures, bei denen wir Kleingruppen aus der Hofburg hinausschicken. Es gibt auch keine Speaking Fee. Stattdessen arbeite ich mit allen Speakern drei bis sechs Monate lang an ihren Talks, konkret in zwei bis vier Calls, in denen wir das große Thema aufmachen und immer weiter auf dieses eine Skript runterbrechen. Danach werden sie bis zur Sekunde vor der Bühne von Rhetorik-Coaches begleitet, dazu kommt ein rigoroses Fact-Checking. Einen TED Talk von Geoffrey Hinton oder Peter Steinberger wird man so auf keiner anderen Konferenz hören.

Wohin soll die Reise gehen?

Was ich immer stärker beobachte: Problemlösungsorientiertes Forschen bringt im KI-Bereich die spannendsten Innovationen hervor und bedeutet gleichzeitig das nachhaltigste wirtschaftliche Wachstum. Wir arbeiten an einer Plattform, die die grundlegenden Probleme dokumentiert, die Forschende und Gründer:innen derzeit am meisten beschäftigen, und diese im Rahmen von Veranstaltungen nach außen trägt. Also nicht nur ideenzentriertes Denken, wie bei TED Talks, sondern problemzentriertes Denken.


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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Welche gesellschaftspolitischen Auswirkungen hat der Inhalt dieses Artikels?

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Welche wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen hat der Inhalt dieses Artikels?

Leider hat die AI für diese Frage in diesem Artikel keine Antwort …

Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.

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Corporate Edupreneurship as a driver of innovation

  • In times like these, both companies and the education sector face new challenges.
  • It is essential now to react more and more flexibly and agilely to new developments.
  • At the moment we all feel how fast our environment is changing and how quickly we have to react to it in order to survive.
  • Educational cooperations within the framework of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ help us to do so.
  • The concept of „Corporate Edupreneurship“ is also the core of the EU project Corship, in which co-innovation between established companies and start-ups is supported with innovative training formats.
  • Another example of Edupreneurship in which Styrian companies and FH JOANNEUM have joined forces to develop a new learning format is TECC.
  • The TACC programme, on the other hand, imparts the knowledge necessary to set up a company in the automotive sector.