COIL Open Innovation

Innovation, interdisciplinarity and entrepreneurship are essential for the future and an important new subject in higher education institutions worldwide. HSLU develops new collaborative learning formats to exchange methods and best practice with international partners. The DISCO consortium focuses on developing innovative sustainable cooperation options utilising MOOCs and COILs (Collaborative Online International Learning).

In this COIL, Julie Harboe and Markus Graf open their interdisciplinary HSLU course OPEN INNOVATION (TA.BA_OPEN_ISA) to students from Lviv National Polytechnic University, Ukraine. Using their real-world test-cases, students connect learning about the strategies and advantages of open innovation and creative collaborations with facilitating start-up concepts. The course features online lectures on the 360° of open collaborative innovation processes with interactive learning formats and international experts on themes such as:

• Theories of Open Innovation (OI)
• Relevance of OI for design, research, and deep tech industry
• Weighing intellectual property with open-source culture
• Knowledge creation in makerspaces
• Crowdfunding and -sourcing
• Successful open-source business models

In hybrid teaching formats, students and staff from Lviv National Polytechnic University mentored by Olena Pozniakova present their start-ups or start-up concepts and collaborate with the HSLU students and lecturer to further develop their entrepreneurial ideas testing the opportunities presented in the lessons. Eventually, the student teams present individual roadmaps for the start-ups, which are reviewed online by an international jury.

Programme

21.2.2024: OCI 360-degree model, Creativity and Networks
28.2.2024: Theories of Open Innovation
06.3.2024: Startup case study presentation from LPNU
13.3.2024: Startup case study presentation from LPNU
20.3.2024: Intellectual Property and Creative Commons
27.3.2024: Open Design and Innovation Processes
10.4.2024: Crowds Scaling Open Collaborative Innovation
17.4.2024: Global Industry and Open Innovation
24.4.2024: Citizen and Community Science
01.5.2024: Sustainable and Circular Open Innovation
08.5.2024: Roadmap presentations for LPNU startups
15.5.2024: Trends and development of Open Tech
22.5.2024: OCI Spaces and Maker-Culture
29.5.2024: Future of Open Innovation, Repetition

Case studies

In December the HSLU DISCO partners in Lviv held an online transmitted competition for 12 teams with a professional Jury from 5 countries. 6 start-ups with mature tech- and reality-based projects were voted to serve as use cases in the Open Innovation course. These are the winners:

  • JMiL Drones (LPNU): A drone flying school for adults and children (took off as winner of the people’s choice).
  • Free Walk (LPNU): A smart walking cane facilitating the movement of visually impaired and blind people.
  • GrainMole (LPNU): A device monitors the condition of grain.
    Cotia (Lviv Polytechnic): A smart cat collar helps owners better understand their pet at any distance.
  • OKTOWN (Sumy State University): An innovative marketplace aimed at promoting volunteer tourism in Ukraine.
  • Wombat (LPNU): A business process management system for construction and repair companies.