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
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
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
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
On May, 21st of 2018, SCIL presented the Smart Business Modeler to a group of master students from Imperial College Business School, London. The master students visited Portugal for a couple of days to learn more about some key players in Lisbon’s dynamic innovation scene. SCIL had the pleasure to be part of the immersive
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
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
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
The Innovation Center at Tunis Business School hosted the Innovation Days during the 18th and 19th of April. Part of these days was the workshop “Creating successful business models” held by René Bohnsack, which followed the talk of Emir Ben Ghodhben on financing startups. Also the recently agreed upon startup act was a topic at
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
