Innovation Nation: First Pitch Results

Innovation Nation was created to provide people the chance to improve their leadership, and entrepreneurial abilities while also creating a new and innovative product based on the Stanford Design Thinking Model.

Young professionals are organized into teams throughout this 12-week program and given the goal of creating a new product that fits with a clearly defined challenge and target market. A committed mentor who will be a member of each team's roster is designated. Both the product's value proposition and the overall innovativeness of the solution are carefully taken into account.

We had participants come from 16 cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With an organized Innovation Nation bus ride, they came to the lovely Banja Luka where they had the opportunity to meet live and present their progress so far.

During their first pitch, 12 teams won amazing prizes of 3.000 BAM each for their prototypes and further development of their ideas.

The first 3 places went to the following teams:
1st place – Team 15 (Ajla Šabanac, Denina Šiljbegović, Emin Hodžić, Merjema Đipa)
2nd place – Team 1 (Eldar Kepić, Faruk Šehić, Osman Azabagić, Zerin Redžepović)
3rd place – Team 11 (Amela Radonja, Mirza Mustafić, Kelim Selmanović, Mirnes Rakovac)

We believe that this was a great push to get them to even more amazing results in the future challenges of the program.

We congratulate all teams for showing up with such positive energy and giving amazing presentations of their solution and prototype plan.