Team Academy: A story of a school that learns

“To remove unemployment in Finland and to revolutionize marketing and learning. To abolish the old structures which hinder new companies and accelerate progress through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship provides people with a sense of their own destiny and of working for themselves in collaboration with others.” These lines are taken from the mission of Team Academy at Jyväskylä Polytechnic in central Finland. The entrepreneurial spirit and attitude that is being referred to here includes qualities such as courage, visionary skills, action orientation, and self confidence. These qualities can not be taught, they only can be learned. This kind of natural learning process for entrepreneurship is one that Team Academy has challenged itself to strive to achieve.