Venture Dorm summer school

V DormFlinders University’s new Tonsley building is hosting its first frenetic burst of creative energy, as students of the Venture Dorm entrepreneurship course set about building original business ideas from scratch.

Around 20 students, many from the Flinders Business School, are taking part in an intensive topic being taught at Tonsley by the New Venture Institute as part of the Venture Dorm summer school.

Created to provide skills and capacity for aspiring entrepreneurs, the Venture Dorm program takes an initial idea, and in less than 12 weeks develops a viable business model which is scaleable and repeatable. Summer School has compressed this program for students into half this time, upping the intensity and enhancing the experience for Flinders students.

Director of the New Venture Institute, Mr Matt Salier, said it was appropriate that a topic focusing on commercialisation should be the first to be taught at Tonsley.

“Tonsley is all about nurturing innovation alongside business, creating the graduates, products and services of the future for the benefit of the South Australian community. Venture Dorm Summer School is bringing this to life right from the very beginning of our journey in this amazing precinct,” he said

From the beginning of the academic year in March, the Tonsley building will be home to the University’s School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, and will also house research centres in nanoscale science and in medical device and assistive technologies, along with the New Venture Institute.

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