How is the process in the time-machine?
The main focus is set. A number of Startup
Weekend will be held each year and will be hosted by the participating CR
members - widely spread all over Europe. Each event will start on a Friday on a
date that fits the host.
Prior to the Startup Weekend (Thursday) the
participating filmmakers is a invited to a CR masterclass, where they
will be introduced to business-thinking, business model generation, business
tools etc. in order to prepare them for the startup weekend.
At the Startup Weekend the participants initially pitch
their business ideas (related to the theme) - keep in mind: Startup Weekend is
only about creating new business. The owners of the selected ideas then
form working groups among all the participants and they start realizing the
ideas during the weekend based on there individual knowledge. Sunday evening
the new startups is pitched in front of a hardcore group of judges and a winner
is picked.
But what happen during the weekend? A lot of knowledge is
exchanged. Film makers inspires people from other industries, other industries
inspires film makers. What’s happen is a crossover of
knowledge and new knowledge is created. All this is considered as valued data
and will be collected, together with the outcome of the Startup Weekends by CR and exposed to the industry
in a CR knowledge catalog. This will work as inspiration for the
industry.
All these bits of knowledge will in short time be a
massive collection of data - some is useful, some is not. But what will happen is that we in a short time
begin to see a pattern. This pattern we can work on and it will draw the
outline of new tools, new business models, new platforms etc. This is
innovation.
