Capstone innovation project, Renotech Oy

Capstone is an innovative learning environment for the student and a solution for the customer Capstone applies the CDIO method to develop and rethink education, which then matches business needs better. Tight integration between research and practice combined with methods of innovation pedagogy develop the students’ abilities to meet actual situations that occur in working life. The result is future workers who are more skilled and more realistic. The primary task of the Capstone Innovation Project is to produce a prototype of a product or service that a company needs, or a potential solution to an as yet unsolved problem. Capstone encourages the companies to boldly try new approaches, test new ideas in a user-centered way and engage potential customers with the designing process. Success requires failures too! A team of students from different fields and international students bring a new aspect to new ideas and solutions and give a good starting point to bring out new ...

Our group had a wonderful opportunity to visit Smart Chemistry Park  in Raisio. We were 5.12.there and learned so much. Linda Fröberg-Niemi told us about Smart Chemistry Park and we also learn more about Renotech.  Smart Chemistry Park supports research and innovations to create new businesses to Turku region. Focus is in companies who`s technology is based in chemistry and in bio- and circular economy. Smart Chemistry Park´s idea is to help small and medium size businesses to scale their products into industrial scale.  One of the companies in Smart Chemistry Park is Renotech and we got the chance to visit their laboratory and office spaces. The laboratories are for all companies who are working in SCP, this is the way to use equipment effectively. There are also pilot spaces.  Different companies are working closely with each other so information sharing happens easily from company to another. Research subjects are near each other and many of SCP companies...

Comments for peer group´s mindmaps: Please, put the link also to the blog. 1.  Swedish learning game -groups blog The mindmap contained a lot of ideas and information about the project.  In the map was plenty of things that needs to think about during the project etc. avatars or the music.  The layout of the mindmap could have been a bit more clear. 2.  A New Animal Nutrient -groups blog   Mindmap is clear, simple (in a good way), easy to follow and cycle of project is summarise in mindmap very well. Perhaps there could be more, like what kind of laboratory work etc. 3.  http://iot.piha.me/    Mindmap included lots of ideas, but still it was really clear and easy to read. And after the map there was a little memo about how they created the mindmap. That memo was nice, because it wasn't like the other ones  Comments for peer groups ideatrees:  Please, put the link also to the blog. 1. Jaakko 2. Pasi 3. Ervina...

Link to the Renotech´s Facebook page

The most interesting blog was Swedish language for business learning blog,  Link to the blog . We choose it because it described clearly, they have there their main goals, introduction about capstone, about their own project. The page is also visual interesting. The page has 4 options: home, about capstone, group members and blog. In home page they briefly describe their general idea and main goals. In about capstone they are telling what is it the capstone project and briefly describing it. In group members section they introduce themselves. And in blog section they are writing about their meetings that they are done there. We are going to meet Kiertomaa´s geologist soon.