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Program overview
Workshop
Innovation Culture
Cultural Factors to Promote Innovation
Cultural Factors to Promote Innovation
The first workshop lays the foundation for developing an innovation-promoting buisness culture. Participants examine central factors that influence the success of innovations. The focus is on the transition from traditional structures to an open, agile, and collaborative way of working. The workshop teaches approaches for how organizations can foster creativity and create an innovation-friendly environment.
Practical Workshop
The Innovation Journey Begins
Beneficial Use of the TNCC Program
Beneficial Use of the TNCC Program
The first practical workshop takes place online and creates a space for reflection and exchange. With inspiring questions, participants are encouraged to analyze their own companies and their innovation potential. They reflect on their innovation interests and goals as well as current and future innovation areas in the company. In particular, the workshop serves to give space to plans for the individual, profitable use of the TNCC program to promote innovations.
Workshop
Heilbronn Ecosystem – Entrepreneurship
Success Factors of Entrepreneurial Thinking
Success Factors of Entrepreneurial Thinking
For the second workshop, participants go to Heilbronn to visit the TNCC project partner Campus Founders, who have built one of the leading innovation ecosystems in Germany as part of the Schwarz Education Campus. There, participants learn which competencies and framework conditions are necessary to create an innovative ecosystem and which psychological factors promote entrepreneurial thinking. Additionally, topics such as Ambidextrous Leadership, Empathy, Customer Centricity, and overcoming the “Valley of Death” are in focus.
Silicon Valley Symposium
Deep Dive
Experiencing the Leading Innovation Ecosystem
Experiencing the Leading Innovation Ecosystem
The Silicon Valley Symposium offers participants the unique opportunity to immerse themselves deeply in the world's leading innovation ecosystem. In addition to lectures by leading experts from science and business, company visits and networking events are on the program. Participants gain insights into the success factors for growth and innovation in the digital age, the cultural peculiarities of Silicon Valley, and the power of AI. Through the exchange with other innovators and learning from best practices, transnational networks are strengthened and new perspectives for one's own innovation work are opened. This “Deep Dive” experience inspires participants to adapt the success factors of Silicon Valley profitably for their own company.
Practical Workshop
Transfer and Adaptation
From Silicon Valley to Practice
From Silicon Valley to Practice
After returning from Silicon Valley, participants reflect in the second practical workshop on the innovation-promoting factors of Silicon Valley and their possible implementation in Germany. Concrete insights from the symposium are discussed, obstacles to adapting the approaches are identified, and transformation potentials in their own companies are analyzed. The focus is on the further development of the individual innovation story and practical tips for successful management of changes within the organization. This workshop provides valuable support to integrate innovation into everyday business life in the long term and sustainably.
Workshop
Foresight and Futures Literacy
The Importance of the Future for Innovation
The Importance of the Future for Innovation
In the Foresight & Futures Literacy workshop, participants engage with actively shaping the future. Building on the content presented at the Silicon Valley Symposium, the foresight mindset is further deepened. The focus is on future thinking, identifying trends and signals, and strategies to make these insights usable for one's own organization. Participants learn to critically question assumptions and prejudices about the future, anticipate the potential impacts of trends, and better deal with uncertainty and rapid change. This workshop sharpens the ability to integrate future-oriented thinking into everyday business and develop innovative ways to shape the future.
Cross-Over Conclusion
Connecting Horizons
Thinking TNCC Long-term and Sustainably
Thinking TNCC Long-term and Sustainably
The final meeting is planned as a cross-cohort event to create further networking opportunities with like-minded innovation drivers. The goal is to discuss recognized opportunities and challenges regarding the implementation of innovation-promoting measures in the company in a solution-oriented manner. Additionally, the individual innovation stories are presented, and participants jointly consider how the idea of transnational co-creation could exist in the long term and sustainably.
Project Value Partners
Project Idea Advisor
A project of the Institute for Performance Management at Leuphana University Lüneburg, funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).