Abstract
Innovation and entrepreneurship is high on the education policy agenda and conse-quently also in engineering education. The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) does a significant effort to establish a variety of opportunities by encouraging their students to work with project development and entrepreneurship. As a part of their education, DTU students is offered the opportunity to work with the organizers at Roskilde Festival (RF) with a broad range of real-life engineering design challenges (RF is a large music festival with about 100.000 visitors and 32.000 volunteers).
This paper outlines the collaboration framework between DTU and RF; a living-lab learning platform developed between the two organizations. More than 650 engi-neering students have participated between 2010 and 2017. The collaboration pro-vides a unique context for students to conceive, design, develop and implement their own ideas. Our research is based on analysis of data and results from student pro-jects aggregated between 2010 and 2017. In this paper we have a special focus on projects exploiting a commercial potential and present cases of student entrepre-neurship realized through festival projects. Furthermore, we have analyzed the char-acteristics of the cross institutional setup that supports, coordinates and facilitates the platform.
This paper outlines the collaboration framework between DTU and RF; a living-lab learning platform developed between the two organizations. More than 650 engi-neering students have participated between 2010 and 2017. The collaboration pro-vides a unique context for students to conceive, design, develop and implement their own ideas. Our research is based on analysis of data and results from student pro-jects aggregated between 2010 and 2017. In this paper we have a special focus on projects exploiting a commercial potential and present cases of student entrepre-neurship realized through festival projects. Furthermore, we have analyzed the char-acteristics of the cross institutional setup that supports, coordinates and facilitates the platform.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018 |
Editors | Robin Clark, Edit Peter Munkebo Hussmann, Hannu-Matti Järvinen Järvinen, Mike Murphy, Martin Etchells Vigild |
Publisher | European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) |
Publication date | 2018 |
Pages | 905-912 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-2-87352-016-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Event | European Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference 2018 - Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark Duration: 17 Sept 2018 → 21 Sept 2018 Conference number: 46 https://www.sefi2018.eu/ http://www.sefi2018.eu/ |
Conference
Conference | European Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference 2018 |
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Number | 46 |
Location | Technical University of Denmark |
Country/Territory | Denmark |
City | Kgs Lyngby |
Period | 17/09/2018 → 21/09/2018 |
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Keywords
- Living lab learning
- Start-ups
- Project design
- Problem-based learning
- University-business cooperation