A two-week workshop was held in Finland during February 2010 and again in Glasgow in February 2011. The events were sponsored by the European Lifelong Learning programme. Students from Portugal, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland and the UK were placed in multicultural teams of five. Each team had two product designers, one graphic designer, one financial and one marketing student. They were set the task of devising new product ideas for a local company and they had two weeks in which to do it. These intensive workshops comprised lectures and practice sessions as well as ideation sessions for the new product ideas. This paper reports on the reactions to the first programme and the lessons learned.
FietJ.O. (2001). ‘The theoretical side of teaching entrepreneurship’, Journal of Business Venturing, Vol 16, No 1, pp 1–24.
6.
HargadonA. (2005), ‘Leading with vision: The design of new ventures’, Design Management Review, Vol 16, No 1, pp 33–39.
7.
HughesM.BerryA. (2000), ‘Learning by doing: A case study of qualitative accounting research’, Accounting Education, Vol 9, No 2, pp 157–174.
8.
Innosupport (2005), ‘Innosupport: Supporting innovation in SMEs’, www.innosupport.net.
9.
KinsellaR.McBriertyV. (1997), ‘Campus companies and the emerging techno–academic paradigm: The Irish experience’, Technovation, Vol 17, No 5, pp 245–251.
10.
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Portugal (2005), Decree-Law nr 42/2005, 22 February.
11.
RogersJ.BirnieS.PengellyJ.AdamsR. (2006), ‘This is self service design’, Proceedings of the Engineering and Product Design Education Conference, Salzburg, Design Society, Strathclyde University, Strathclyde, see also http://www.designsociety.org.
12.
SilvaP.L.LopesC. (2004), ‘Simulação Empresarial – Um Novo Conceito de Ensino’, XIV Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Gestão Científica, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Açores.
13.
StammB. (2004), ‘Innovation – what's design got to do with it’, Design Management Review, Vol 15, No 1, pp 10–19.
