MINNO® Innovation Project: effects on organization goals and gains for the interviewee
Wilkinson, Sonja (2022)
Wilkinson, Sonja
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202204286290
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202204286290
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The purpose of my study was to evaluate the effects of MINNO® innovation projects for the working life partners in Uusimaa region in Finland. This study presents the first part of the interview guideline, effects on organization goals and gains for the interviewee.
The aim of this study was to identify the existing working life partners, to create and evidence-based interview guideline for the measurement of the impact, to investigate the impact of MINNO® innovation projects among the working life partners, and to measure the satisfaction of the organizations towards MINNO® innovation projects.
Qualitative approach was used to conduct this study. Initially, two workshops were arranged to design an interview guide. The first workshop aimed to investigate what the MINNO® teacher’s and coordinators would like to ask from the participating organizations, and the second workshop was arranged to finalize the interview questions. Purposive sampling was used in this study and the invitation for the interview was sent to seventy-one organizations. Nineteen organizations were interviewed for this study. Data analysis methods consisted of classification of previous MINNO® innovation projects, organizing the raw data that was collected as a result from the workshops, and inductive content analysis process for the data collected from the interviews that includes open coding, creating categories and abstraction.
The results showed that majority of the interviewees were satisfied with the project and agreed that participating to MINNO® innovation project had been useful, and participation provided added value for the organization. Just a slightly over a half of the projects provided a product or service that the organizations were able to benefit from and utilize in use after the project.
Based on the results from this study MINNO® innovation projects have been successful, and the projects have provided added value for the organizations by enhancing the organizations visibility, networking prospects, and by providing new ideas, products, solutions, and services. This may perhaps help to prove the importance of university-industry collaboration, and the importance of MINNO® innovation studies.
The aim of this study was to identify the existing working life partners, to create and evidence-based interview guideline for the measurement of the impact, to investigate the impact of MINNO® innovation projects among the working life partners, and to measure the satisfaction of the organizations towards MINNO® innovation projects.
Qualitative approach was used to conduct this study. Initially, two workshops were arranged to design an interview guide. The first workshop aimed to investigate what the MINNO® teacher’s and coordinators would like to ask from the participating organizations, and the second workshop was arranged to finalize the interview questions. Purposive sampling was used in this study and the invitation for the interview was sent to seventy-one organizations. Nineteen organizations were interviewed for this study. Data analysis methods consisted of classification of previous MINNO® innovation projects, organizing the raw data that was collected as a result from the workshops, and inductive content analysis process for the data collected from the interviews that includes open coding, creating categories and abstraction.
The results showed that majority of the interviewees were satisfied with the project and agreed that participating to MINNO® innovation project had been useful, and participation provided added value for the organization. Just a slightly over a half of the projects provided a product or service that the organizations were able to benefit from and utilize in use after the project.
Based on the results from this study MINNO® innovation projects have been successful, and the projects have provided added value for the organizations by enhancing the organizations visibility, networking prospects, and by providing new ideas, products, solutions, and services. This may perhaps help to prove the importance of university-industry collaboration, and the importance of MINNO® innovation studies.