INNOVATION MANAGEMENT TRAINING 3 “Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”

Report 11 June 2018 University of Limerick

1. VENUE

University of Limerick Analogue Devices Building Room AD1-045/46 (1st floor)

2. SUMMARY

Innovation and creativity are two words frequently heard in research environment today. How can we encourage innovation and creativity in ourselves and our PhD students? Often the components of the innovation have been described as fun, creative, diverse, collaborative, and intuitive. Taking small steps to accomplish this goal is the way to go, but there needs to be support and encouragement. The innovation training was dived in three sessions: Unlocking Creativity, Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship Challenge and Storytelling- Panel discussion with successful start-ups CEOs. The training was designed to nurture and develop the participant’s creative confidence and, enable them to practice creativity in a fun, safe & collaborative environment. It also focused on fostering entrepreneurial mind-set using collaborative problem-solving game tools. The training had the strong practical, teamwork and interactive aspects. As part of the Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship Challenge, the participants learned how to use the Design Thinking human-centred approach to innovation. The exercise focused on reimagining an everyday object. The objective was to gain insights from discovery and empathy, define a problem-to-be-solved for the everyday object, create multiple solutions, make a rough-and-ready prototype and pitch the idea to the fellow teams. The panel session hosted two extraordinary speakers: Paddy Finn from Electricity Exchange, a leading figure at the forefront of Demand Side strategy in Ireland and James Ives – CEO Xocean, a successful Irish start-up who develops an innovative Autonomous Surface Vessel for the collection of ocean data. Being both the successful entrepreneurs, their paths have been entirely different. The participants had a chance to learn about two start-up showcases, compare the stories, challenges they faced, mistakes they made and goals they achieved. The Fireside Chat made this session dynamic and interactive. The training was given by Fergal Brophy, an entrepreneurial specialist at University College Dublin Innovation Academy. Fergal has extensive experience in facilitating and mentoring innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship for large Corporates, small to medium-sized firms (SMEs), postdocs and Undergraduates.

3. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

1 Ivan Lončar University of Zagreb, FER ivan.loncar@fer.hr

2 Milan Marković University of Zagreb, FER milan.markovic@fer.hr

3 Anja Babić University of Zagreb, FER anja.babic@fer.hr

4 Nadir Kapetanović University of Zagreb, FER nadir.kapetanovic@fer.hr

5 Ivana Mikolić University of Zagreb, FER ivana.mikolic@fer.hr

6 Nikola Miskovic University of Zagreb, FER nikola.miskovic@fer.hr

7 Matej Celega University of Zagreb, FER mcelega@fer.hr

8 Filip Mandić University of Zagreb, FER filip.mandic@fer.hr

910 Barbara Arbanas University of Zagreb, FER barbara.arbanas@fer.hr

11 Cathal O'Donnell University of Limerick, CRIS Cathal.W.ODonnell@ul.ie

12 Oriana Barić University of Limerick, CRIS oriana.baric@ul.ie

13 Joseph Coleman University of Limerick, CRIS joseph.coleman@ul.ie

14 Oran Dolphin Murray University of Limerick, CRIS Oran.Dolphin-Murray@ul.ie

15 Gerard Dooly University of Limerick, CRIS gerard.dooly@ul.ie

16 Mahdi Ebrahimi Salari University of Limerick, CRIS Mahdi.EbrahimiSalari@ul.ie

17 Isela Ibrahimovic University of Limerick, CRIS isela.ibrahimovic@ul.ie

18 Edin Omerdic University of Limerick, CRIS edin.omerdic@ul.ie

19 Stefano Pierantozzi University of Limerick, CRIS Stefano.Pierantozzi@ul.ie

20 Matija Rossi University of Limerick, CRIS matija.rossi@ul.ie

21 Satja Sivcev University of Limerick, CRIS satja.sivcev@ul.ie

22 Petar Trslic University of Limerick, CRIS petar.trslic@ul.ie

23 Hedyie Pour Bagheri University of Limerick, CRIS hediye_sigaroudi@yahoo.com

24 Saeed Nourizadeh Azar Sabanci University saeeed@sabanciuniv.edu

25 Christos Constantinou University of Cyprus c.constantinou@cut.ac.cy

26 Fergal Brophy Innovation Academy -UCD fergal.brophy@ucd.ie

27 James Ives Xocean James.ives@xocean.com

28 Paddy Finn Electricity Exchange paddy@electricityexchange.ie

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5. PHOTOS

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