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Educating Entrepreneurs?- Cross-disciplinary Innovation at Work
Professor Tuula Teeri, President, Aalto UniversityGlobal Education Industry Summit Oct 19-20, 2015
University education Current trends
• Research-based – impact on society• Massification – access to higher education• Globalization – student mobility, competition• Digitalization – MOOCs/blended learning• Working life relevance - employment• Generic skills: leadership, multicultural/teamwork,
communication and language skills• Life-long learning – no longer one career• Entrepreneurial spirit
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Aalto – The Innovation University
Where Science and Art meet Technology and Business
• First class research, art and education• Multidisciplinary collaboration• Entrepreneurship• Tangible societal impact – industrial renewal
Our Co-creative Innovation Ecosystem
Promoting entrepreneurship and
business renewal
… where Science and Art meet Technology
and Business
Open innovation and co-location with
strategic partners
Co-creative education of
game changers
World's best product developers?
Photo Aalto University Material Bank
Riga
New York
The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Aalto University
EducationPrograms
AccelerationPrograms
Co-workingEnvironments
InternshipPrograms
Tech transferCommercialization
Commercialization Financing
Open Innovation House (Master of Science)
(MBA)
Introduction• Changemakers• Opportunity Prototyping• Introduction to IT Business
and Venturing
Project Courses• Growth and Inter-
nationalization of Technology SMEs
• Collaborative Innovation Management
• Global Team-based Design Innovation
• Product Development Project
• Internship Innovation Project
• High Growth Entrepreneurship with varying content
Core Curriculum• Entrepreneurial Finance• Entrepreneurial Leadership• Entrepreneurial Marketing• Design and Innovation in
Context• Managing Innovative Sales• Strategies for Growth and
Renewal• Management of a Software• Venture• Seminar on ICT-
law ,"Exploitation of IPR"• Shaping Entrepreneurial
Thinking
Students as co-creators and leaders
• World-class event organised by Aalto students• 1 500 growth companies and 14 000 participants (2014)• CEOs of more than 100 listed companies present
SLUSH in BeijingOctober 2015
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