Swiss ep 2025 - action plan session - team 5.2
Short Summary:
Team 5.2's "Swiss EP 2025 Action Plan" session discusses a strategy to avoid relying on corporate business agendas for funding a community project. Instead, they aim to leverage corporate CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives, positioning their project as a way for corporations to invest money effectively without adhering to a traditional incubator model. The project focuses on promoting the capacity of an "integrator" (the exact nature of which is unclear from the transcript) and uses First Lab (invested by Fica) as a successful case study. The overall goal is to find a potent source of funding without compromising the project's independence.
Detailed Summary:
The transcript details a meeting of Team 5.2 discussing their funding strategy for a project within the "Swiss EP 2025" initiative. The discussion can be broken down into the following sections:
Section 1: The Challenge of Corporate Funding: The team acknowledges the difficulty of securing corporate funding by directly aligning with their business agendas. A key statement highlights this challenge: "it's not easy to ask the corporation to take in the program so how can you help them?".
Section 2: The Proposed Alternative: CSR and Independent Operation: The team proposes a different approach, focusing on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. They explicitly state: "we're not following the business agenda of the corporates; we don't seek for their support for the community...that is considered as a part of the CSR activity of the corporates." This strategy aims to secure funding without compromising the project's independence or objectives.
Section 3: Rejecting the Incubator Model and Emphasizing the Integrator: The team expresses skepticism towards the traditional incubator model, stating "we don't believe the full concept of incubator." Instead, they highlight their project's focus on leveraging and promoting the capacity of an "integrator," a key element whose exact function remains undefined in the transcript. This integrator is presented as the most potent area for corporate investment.
Section 4: The First Lab Case Study: The team uses First Lab, a project successfully funded by Fica, as a case study to demonstrate the viability of their approach. They emphasize First Lab's current success ("they are going strong right now") as evidence that their strategy can attract and retain corporate investment.
In essence, the meeting focuses on developing a funding strategy that avoids direct corporate influence while leveraging corporate CSR initiatives to secure funding for their project, emphasizing the potential of an "integrator" as the focal point of investment. The lack of clarity regarding the "integrator" leaves some aspects of the plan somewhat ambiguous.