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Juho Hyytiäinen@JuhoHyytiainen
• Coworking space with a focus on entrepreneurship- Located in Otaniemi campus- Also runs a seed accelerator program
• Started by a group of students- Growing Aaltoes needed a space and took actions
“ Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is an independent, privately funded student and post-graduate led community initiative. We encourage high-tech, high-growth, scalable entrepreneurship, providing a tight startup community in Northern Europe. Founded in 2009, Aaltoes believes in grassroots action, self-initiative and lean practices ”
• Currently Aalto Venture Garage houses 8 startups and 3 student communities
- During the summer garage underwent a major renovation worth 200k
Why universities need coworking spaces? Aalto’s story
• True interdisciplinary needs a no-mans-land
- When everybody are away from their comfort zone, they are at the same time equal
• A place like home within the place you work
- Having a dedicated, versatile space creates endless options
Value for the universitycase Aaltoes
• Attention, attention, attention- To attract the brightest students and to arouse interest in
funding companies media traction in needed
• Being the pioneer shows you’ve got vision
- Startup Sauna was the first early stage accelerator program run by an university in Finland, is not any more
