Other Idea, Other Pathway - First Steps to Entrepreneurship webinar
Have you ever wondered whether your own expertise, hobby, education or a small idea could create a service that someone would be willing to pay for? We look at entrepreneurship from this point of view in particular.
A business idea doesn't have to be ready right away and the goal doesn't have to be to start a big business. You can start with what you already know and what kind of needs you can see around you.
In half an hour, we will explore two practical solutions. First, we'll see how Path an entrepreneurship coach helps to take your own idea forward, and then we get to know rural services -platform as a meeting place between services and customers.
The goal is that at least one new idea of how your expertise could be built into a service or business idea would be included in this half-hour.
The project is part of the SMART ERA project, which uses digitalisation to develop new opportunities for rural vitality and entrepreneurship
Welcome!
Friday 27.11.2026 at 12-12.30 at Teams. Jump to the Lines here or register here!
Indicative timetable for the programme:
| Time | Content | Speaker |
| 12.00 | Welcome and SMART ERA in brief | Ossi Kotavaara, University of Oulu and Saija Tikkanen, Regional Council of Northern Ostrobothnia |
| 12.02-12.15 | Path to Entrepreneurship Coach: forward of idea + short demo | Antti Martikainen, Virtual Dawn / Midnight Forge Oy |
| 12.15-12.25 | Rural services: a practical presentation of the platform; | NN |
| 12.25-12.30 | What about this for the student? Productizing your own know-how and experimenting with entrepreneurship
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