Author: Melanie Stuetz

This year IDEASCANNER is again at the Digitaltag for the topics environment and sustainability, economy and innovation as well as education and science. Register now here for our intactive online event on Friday, June 24, 2:00-2:30 p.m.: “What you can learn from venture capital professionals – From quick test for sustainable business ideas to digital business model”.

IDEASCANNER’s CEO, Melanie Stütz, is now Thought Leader in AI at the Global AI Hub to support the 10million.AI project. This is a non-profit and social good initiative to educate 10 million people for free on AI, robotics, data, and other digital technologies.

Thank you Zeynep Akyıldız, Fuat Beşer, Selçuk Boydak & team for this initiative. This project puts a major emphasis on equal opportunities for everyone. That is why – above all – it aims to mobilize women and wants to achieve the goal of educating at least 5 million women around the world for more Women in AI, Women In Data and Women in AI & Robotics.

Join the Global AI Hub! It is the leading community for AI experts and aspiring talents around the world. Get access to world-class learning programs and courses co-produced by globally leading tech firms, universities and education providers like Google, Amazon, UiPath, Tata Consultancy Services, Automation Anywhere, and AI Business School.

Join us again at the Sustainable Business Summit 2022 by NEXTPRENEURS – Sustainable Entrepreneurship on May 6th & 7th.

This year Melanie Stütz (IDEASCANNER) is part of the jury for the startup pitches together with Mirko Bendig (IU International University of Applied Sciences), Prof. Dr. Eva-Yasmin Kaiser (Macromedia University of Applied Sciences), Sina Landorff, Hakan Duman, Şebnem Elif Kocaoğlu Ulbrich (European Innovation Bridge (EIB)) and Johannes Lindner (Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems, University of Vienna). Let’s see if we can find innovative and sustainable products for one of our customers that we can then bring to retail together!

Thank you for the invitation and organization dear Prof. Dr. Esin Bozyazi, Kristina Debertin, Kerstin Schenk, Ayşe Nisa Yazıcı, İmran Gündüz & team at Steinbeis.

We are also already excited about the keynotes of Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin (Chiang Mai University, Stiftung Entrepreneurship) on “Social Entrepreneurship” and Filiz Albrecht on “Female Leadership and Sustainability by Bosch”. More about the program and registration here.

We at IDEASCANNER love making things measurable quickly. We were wondering what our current carbon footprint looks like! Our friends at Leaders for Climate Action have created a set of simple tools which allow you to take action in less than 5 minutes. You can see the difference when you switch your household to green energy, saving not just CO2 emissions but money too. Check here. Each of us can make a difference, every day. Join us now. Stay tuned for the Leaders for Climate Action Campaign with IDEASCANNER on Earth Day 2022 and follow us on LinkedIn.

Testing business ideas, providing tools and network is a good start to help founders.

The Science4Life business plan competition gives young founders from life sciences, chemistry and energy the chance to have their technology-oriented business idea or their already founded start-up put through its paces.

The award ceremony for the best business concepts will take place online on March 17, 2022, 5:30 pm. The guest speaker will be Prof. Dr. Tobias Kollmann. The holder of the Chair of Digital Business and Digital Entrepreneurship at the University of Duisburg-Essen will talk about “The Startup Zoo – Why we don’t just need Unicorns!”. To register for the concept award click here.

Thanks to Elnaz Camuffo-Mashhadi for networking, Christiane Wohlers & team for organizing as well as the sponsors from the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing and Sanofi.

Do you also want to put your current business idea to the test? Just contact us!

“As the Covid-19 pandemic has charted its unprecedented path around the world, it’s carried with it the question: What will Covid-19’s legacy be? From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question”, so the latest research “25 Industries & Tech Shaping The Post-Covid World” by CB Insights.

Leading analysts predict a $350B market valuation for the ed tech industry by 2025 even prior to the pandemic. More and more digital tools are also being used in education. IDEASCANNER benefits from this. For example, our digital tool is part of the certification program for startup advisors at colleges and universities at Denkfabrik Hochschulen & Entrepreneurship e.V. Entrepreneurship professors also use it in lectures to quickly evaluate business ideas and show how the current business model can be improved in a peer-to-peer approach.

But what are the implications of these 25 industry & technology trends for the next generation of family businesses? How do they need to position themselves to be future ready? Let our IDEASCANNER experts put your current business model to the test and contact us!

Melanie Stütz from IDEASCANNER was at the launch event for the latest report of “The Missing Entrepreneurs 2021” organized by the OECD, European Commission and Global Entrepreneurship Network. See how “missing entrepreneurs” are costing economies ideas, innovation and jobs and watch the video here.

Together we can close the gap of missing entrepreneurs. With IDEASCANNER, we create entrepreneurs. We democratize the knowledge of successful venture capitals (VCs) by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). With our digital tool, we empower entrepreneurs to evaluate and improve ideas within minutes. We help governments close the skill gap in entrepreneurship.

Because: “Not everyone has an equal opportunity to transform their ideas into a business. There could be an additional 9 million people starting and managing new business in the European Union (EU) – and 35 million across OECD countries – if everyone was as active in business creation as core age men (30-49 years old). This would be 50% more people engaged in early-stage entrepreneurship in the EU and 40% more in OECD countries. About three-quarters of these “missing” entrepreneurs are women, half are over 50 years old and one-in-eight are under 30 years old.”, so the latest report. Download it now here for free.

IDEASCANNER invites you again this year as an official partner of the Gründungswoche Deutschland to the interactive online event: “What you can learn from venture capital professionals – From quick test for business ideas to entrepreneurial thinking”. Register now here for free for Wednesday, 2021/17/11, 2:00-2:30 pm. More information here.

Why do most startups fail? What makes a successful business model? How can a business idea be improved? In this event you will learn first hand:
1. which mistakes you can avoid,
2. what you should pay attention to and
3. when it is worthwhile to implement a business idea.

Gründungswoche Deutschland is a campaign of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The RKW Competence Center is responsible for the nationwide organization.

The Gründungswoche Deutschland is the largest event nationwide to strengthen entrepreneurship and start-ups. It is also part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, which takes place simultaneously in over 180 countries.

IDEASCANNER is the digital tool in corporate innovation & entrepreneurship education to foster entrepreneurial thinking.

IDEASCANNER is now part of the “Certificate Program for Start-up Consultants” of Denkfabrik, the think tank for universities & entrepreneurship!

The most important tools and methods in start-up consulting will be presented in module 4 by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Wrobel (Coburg University), Prof. Dr. Manuela Weller (THM, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen), Brigitte Kauer (Consultant for Start-up Center, OTH Regensburg), Melanie Stütz (CEO, IDEASCANNER) and colleagues of the Denkfabrik.

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Helmut Wittenzellner (Stuttgart Media University) and and the entire Denkfabrik team for organizing this Startup Business Consultant Training in cooperation with FGF, Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung. The FGF is the leading and most member-strong scientific association for entrepreneurship, innovation and SMEs in German-speaking countries.

The certificate program is designed for both beginners and professionals in the field of academic start-up consulting. Further information, also including registration, is available here.