Abstract
The hackathons provide rapid, hands-on opportunities to explore the innovative creation of new business ventures, digital solutions, start-ups and students' entrepreneurship capacity, which incorporate novel technology as a vital component of their business models and operations. A hackathon is an event in which participants involved in software development collaborate intensively over a short period of time on solving the company’s problem. In this work, a hackathon is proposed to generate creative concepts, rapid innovation capacity, design methods, and tools to co-create and solve the companies’ problems with the help of students. However, at the same time in hackathon events, problem-solving opportunities create business opportunities for 55 participating students. This paper describes the process and results of the event and shows that a hackathon is a viable approach to accelerate the co- creation, design thinking process, and support entrepreneurship education to increase student entrepreneur capacity.
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Pirita Ihamäki, Satakunta University of Applied Science, Finland
Santeri Koivisto, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Science, Finland
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Conference: IICE2023
Stream: Design
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To cite this article:
Ihamäki P., & Koivisto S. (2023) Digital “Hack Your Future” Event as Approach to Support Entrepreneurial Capacity of Students Through the Design Thinking Process ISSN: 2189-1036 – The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.45
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.45
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