smart cities supporting start-ups and their citizen
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Smart Cities supporting Start-ups and their citizen - prezentacja Jussi Hannula podczas konferencji „SMART_KOM. Kraków w sieci inteligentnych miast”, 7.11.2014 r., KrakówTRANSCRIPT
Jussi Hannula Aalto Design Factory Espoo, Finland SMART-KOM Conference Krakow 7.11.2014
Smart Cities supporting Start-ups and their citizen
Experiences and ideas from Design Factory, Startup Sauna and Urban Mill in Espoo, Finland Background Boiling point for entrepreneurial culture
City’s role in creation of Startup culture Enabling bright future
What’n’where
Leads a way towards a paradigm shift in education and business by providing a constantly developing collaboration environment for students, researchers and business practitioners
Design Factory is the symbiosis of the state-of-the-art conceptual thinking and cross-disciplinary hands-on doing.
Startup Sauna co-working space is the meeting point for aspiring entrepreneurs in Northern Europe.
The 1.500 square meter industry hall is open for everybody to work in – no membership or previous ties to Startup Sauna are required.
So far 126 alumni who have raised $37 million in funding.
Emerging, global thematic focal point for Urban Innovations
1300 m2 co-working and co-creation space
Located in close proximity with Design Factory and Startup Sauna
Physical and social Knowledge Triangle test-bed for the Otaniemi campus and for the whole T3 area
How to enable flourishing startup scene
Successful Startup is an efficient optimizing engine Lack of cash Short of people Fragile idea Lot of open questions
Location is just one part of the optimized
solution
Where is cost-effective to work? Cheap, basic facilities to start
Can I get best people to move there? Every recruit is crucial. Is your city sexy? Would you move to Äkäslompolo? Or Oulu?
Cheap or free facilities to work Fancy offices are needed later Daily services are as important as facilities
City as a customer Big client of a small company OR Small client of a
big company Easy tender process suitable for startups
Encourage entrepreneurship Creativity and initiatives are easy to kill
Communities grow where they can Just enable and make them possible Utilize passion, not
Spread the word of success stories
Companies grow and breed where it’s best for them to grow and breed.
Beneficiaries are powerful and relatively cheap labor
Action speaks louder than words.
