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Business Modelling Workshop

Yesterday, the Smart City Innovation Lab conducted a business modelling workshop with a group of MBA students from the University of San Diego, California. The goal of the workshop was to develop a business model for a technological invention. It was an exciting 3-hour journey during which workshop participants learned about all ins and outs

Great ideas with great business models for the smart city: MIT DesignX Pitch Night

Yesterday, the 11 start-ups from the MIT designX accelerator pitched their ventures to a packed audience in the MIT Media Lab. It was great to see your development over time, especially with regard to your business models; from our first workshop, over feedback sessions until yesterday. I’m really proud of your fantastic ideas for the

DTx Colab Announcement with Angela Merkel and António Costa

The New Technology and Development Centre Bosch Braga was inaugurated today, May 30th at 3:00 pm. SCIL as a project partner of DTx Colab was invited to attend this event taking place at Bosch’s premises in Sequeira, Braga, where the DTx Colab project was publicly announced at the same time. The Chancellor of the Federal

Research Seminar at Babson College

On Thursday René Bohnsack (Director SCIL) gave a seminar at Babson College on Business Model Innovation for Disruptive Technologies and discussed the applications of the Circles Framework (see ‘Value Propositions for Disruptive Technologies in California Management Review, co-authored with Jonatan Pinkse). It was a great session with inspiring feedback and lively discussions. The worksheets can be

Teaching note published in ONE Newsletter

A teaching note developed by René Bohnsack, Florian Luedecke-Freund (ESCP Europe) and Jonatan Pinkse (Manchester Business School, University of Manchester) was published in the spring edition of the ONE Newsletter, which was dedicated to ONE Teaching Materials. It is a blended learning exercise on how to build sustainable business models. Please find the ONE Newsletter

Discover the Smart City Workshop: Grundfos Reach for the Stars

The Smart City Innovation Lab hosted Grundfos’ 40 best sales people from all over the world for the “Discover the Smart City” workshop at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. As a global leader in water solutions, Grundfos is setting the standards in terms of innovation, efficiency, reliability and sustainability. With this workshop, Grundfos

“Discover the Smart City” Workshop

With the goal of developing a viable smart city business idea that can be implemented within the next 18 months, Grundfos invited its 50 best sales people to fly in to Lisbon from all over the world for the “Discover the Smart City" Workshop. Congratulations go to all participants for their magnificent ideas and remarkable

Release of 3rd me2 newsletter

Me2 has just released its third newsletter. The issue provides an overview of findings of the Amsterdam Pilot (incl. a comparison to the Lisbon Pilot), further platform developments, market analysis as well as business modeling results. Comments can be posted at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8545691. Click here to go to the newsletter directly. The newsletter is also available