Student innovation

UiB offers support to students who want to apply for funding to test new ideas or business concepts:

• Up to 1,000,000 for student ideas through Stud-Ent: UiB provides assistance to students who wish to apply for up to NOK 1,000,000 from the Stud-Ent scheme with the Research Council of Norway. Students who want to apply and who have a project that is considered mature enough, are offered advice from business developers at VIS. An initial conversation with an innovation advisor is required before you contact VIS. Read more about Stud-Ent here.

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• Up to NOK 100,000 for student ideas through UiB idé: Students with good ideas can apply for up to NOK 100,000 from UiB idé. The funds are allocated to ideas with societal value that need to be tested before deciding whether to proceed with the innovation process. Contact person for UiB idé is Yves Aubert. Read more about funding guidelines and assessment criteria at uib.no/ide. 

UiB has a wide range of study options, and in the list below you will find examples of courses that either have innovation and entrepreneurship as part of the learning objectives, that provide an academic benefit that is relevant to pursuing innovation and entrepreneurship or that give you the opportunity to get work experience.

TekLab at Media Cluster Norway has published "Handbook on Innovation for Students", a freely available learning resource for students, pupils and others who want to learn about innovation.

Some selected and widely used innovation methodologies and tools (external sources):

• Design thinking (Ideo)
• Human Centered Design (Ideo)
• Business Model Canvas (Strategyzer)
• Sustainable Business Model Canvas (CASE)