Runway aims to drive skills and opportunity for students through it’s inhouse innovation support and collaborations with externals like Wazoku.
Incentivised by financial prizes, students from the University of Bristol are being urged to take a sort after opportunity to participate in exclusive student open innovation Challenges. Students can get exposure to corporate employers, improve soft skills and have the chance to earn cash awards. Above all, the aim is to enhance industry related skills liked to employability and innovation for all students.
A pioneer in innovation crowdsourcing, Wazoku is now bridging the gap between student and industry through it’s Open Innovation Marketplace, with the goal of solving some of the world’s greatest challenges through crowdsourcing innovative solutions from the student community.
Some examples of live Challenges right now include:
- National Nuclear Laboratory – With a chance to win up £3,000, NNL is looking for student perspectives on the barriers that inhibit and/or deter students away from trades-based careers and how it can overcome those and entice young talent to enter trades-based career paths.
- New Zealand Defence Force – With a chance to win up to £15,000, NZDF is looking to promote safety and productivity of their ship bearing arrangement by sourcing new ways to minimize hands-on activity and accurately measure the wear of the bearing arrangement while the ship remains in operation.
Runway and Wazoku is proud to come together to support students, with Simon Hill, CEO of Wazoku stating, “Open innovation is a way for organisations to look beyond their own boundaries for ideas and inspiration and to access a much broader skill set, experience and expertise. There is huge value in the collective crowd, and I can’t wait to see what the students at Bristol come up with.”
Joining the revolution is simple, starting with registering and completing a solver profile, before submitting a Solution the live Challenges. The top student solutions will be invited to present their solution in a final pitch event in front of an evaluation panel with the chance to win a cash prize. The Challenges offer a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution, so the stakes are high!