Accelerator Operation
In the enterprise accelerator, developing a business idea, functioning as an entrepreneur and developing an enterprise are a part of the university degree. Enterprise Accelerator works for all the degree programmes at SAMK.
Most essential at Enterprise Accelerator:
- Support and guidance by the mentors
- Orientation of studying for the benefit of one’s own enterprise
- Personal curriculum
- Utilization of SAMK’s networks and support by the R&D operation
- Possibility for enterprise transfer to the next generation

Contact the mentors:
Teppo Lundell, Rauma
044 710 3531
Pia Marjanen, Pori
044 710 3356
Petri Martikkala, Pori
044 710 3382
Marko Mikkola, Pori
044 710 3724

Transfer to the Next Generation
The enterprise transfer to the next generation, belonging to the enterprise accelerator’s operation, is a way for a controlled transfer of the enterprise from an experienced entrepreneur to a younger one and from one generation to another. The concept serves both a student and a veteran entrepreneur.
In the process connected with the transfer to the next generation, SAMK’s students educate themselves to be continuators of already operating enterprises. The process gives the opportunity for the student to train oneself into a specialist of entrepreneurship for an enterprise already existing. The process does not require the student to be an entrepreneur already during the study time, but the actual enterprise transfer to the next generation can take place in a longer period of time.
The enterprise can belong to the student’s immediate circles or be an outside enterprise looking for a continuator for its business. The student’s participation in the enterprise transfer to the next generation is included in the degree. The student gets wide support for operating as an entrepreneur.
In addition to SAMK’s research and education experts, the mentors are specialists of processes of enterprise transfers to the next generation.
The cooperation can be deepened also e.g. within R&D projects, when the entire enterprise operation is developed for future challenges with expert assistance.
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