Origin continues to develop programs for implementation of strategies to accelerate realization of its mission. To this end the Practical Field Lab, Origin Fest, have been very effective instruments for mapping of challenges and scoping problems, recruiting of challenge-owners, and subsequently mobilizing young talent to create solutions. In addition, the Origin Venture Growth School is of enormous value in supporting scale up of implementation of the solutions and ensuring long term sustainability.
Scaling up implementation and resilience building of entrepreneurs for impact and transformation: Sustainable transformative value chains that create employment and wealth require startups and progressive development of new ventures so as to grow customer base and market, geographical coverage, firm turnover and profits. To this end, Origin Venture Growth School, admits innovator-entrepreneur-students with ventures that are along the value chains for a more long-term and deeper learning. The students receive education, systematically organized to support their venture development whilst progressing towards attainment of academic credentials. Additionally, they are equipped with practical skills and mentorship to build their resilience. The initial cohort has fifteen innovator-entrepreneur-students representing founders and co-founders of thirteen scalable ventures based on innovations in the transformative value chains. Origin’s target for such scalable ventures is a total of fifty in the next two years.
PFL is an off-campus experiential learning curriculum where faculty and students engage in learning through problem-solving at the intersection of multiple systems of knowledge and practice. The class is organized around a problem curated from challenges identified in value chains considered relevant, and having potential for transformative impact locally where the challenge is first identified and scalable to other regions. Students are placed into these projects to work under mixed teams of academic and non-academic instructors, viz., IKP experts, with matching of the projects to specific examinable practical deliverables.
Origin Fest is a dynamic co-innovation hackathon hosted by Origin Research and Innovation Labs. It brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers to collaborate on solving real-world challenges using Open Innovation and cutting-edge technologies. The event fosters knowledge sharing, networking, and creative problem-solving, providing participants with a unique opportunity to shape the future through innovation. The inaugural event was held in October 2024. It had four challenges all addressing SDGs with AI being a cross-cutting theme The industry partner was Intel Corporation, supported by the ecosystem partner Universities Fund Board. It attracted 147 solvers. The challenge owners took up the winning solutions for implementation.
Origin Fest is a dynamic co-innovation hackathon hosted by Origin Research and Innovation Labs. It brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers to collaborate on solving real-world challenges using Open Innovation and cutting-edge technologies. The event fosters knowledge sharing, networking, and creative problem-solving, providing participants with a unique opportunity to shape the future through innovation. The inaugural event was held in October 2024. It had four challenges all addressing SDGs with AI being a cross-cutting theme The industry partner was Intel Corporation, supported by the ecosystem partner Universities Fund Board. It attracted 147 solvers. The challenge owners took up the winning solutions for implementation.
