Innovation 1918 - 2018 Entrepreneurial University For Science

Alar Kolk Vice Rector, Innovation & Internationalisation

Welcome to Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn Tech!

1. Chemistry and Materials Technology

2. Civil Engineering

3. Social Sciences

4. Information Technology

5. Mechanical Engineering

6. Power Engineering

7. School of Economics and

Business Administration

8. Faculty of Science

Colleges and research centres: – 4 colleges in different cities

– 9 faculty research centres

8 Faculties and 4 colleges ca 14 500 students: BA, MA, PHD

International Tallinn Tech!!! 40% from Finland, 20% from Asia

Ca 900 international students from more then 70 countries study in Tallinn Tech today...

16 Master's level study programmes in English

• International Relations and European-Asian Studies

• International Business Administration (MBA)

• Work and Organizational Psychology

• Law and Technology Law

• Finance and Economic Analysis

• Technology Governance – Innovation Policy and Economics

• Cyber Security

• Software Engineering

• Computer Systems & Engineering

• Communicative Electronics

• Industrial Engineering & Management

• Environmental Management & Cleaner Production

• Materials & Processes of Sustainable Energetics

• Health Care Technology

• Design and Engineering

Tallinn Tech: Health Care Technology

Tallinn Tech: • Computer Systems & Engineering

• Cyber Security

Tallinn Tech: Design & Engineering

Tallinn Tech: Technology Law

*Estonia ranked 1st in the ESN Survey 2010 regarding the average satisfaction level for stay in the hosting country institution.

** ESN Survey is one of the biggest international student surveys in Europe.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SAY ESTONIA IS THE BEST

COUNTRY FOR STAY!!!

How to recruit talented professors?

How to teach smart students?

How to be accelerated by innovation?

Tallinn Tech key topics:

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

Engineering the mind of the future

Innovation

Ideas & Creativity

Entrepreneurship

Business Models

Inter-diciplinarity and industry cooperation

MeKTory!Entrepreneurs

Professors

• Applied research • Business models

• Prototype • Growth

Quality Master or

PHD Thesis

Start up Corp Business

Scientific Career!

17th of Sept next competition starts!

Sir Richard Branson

Innovators’ Failure Pitching @ European Innovation Academy

European Innovation Academy Sessions Summer & Winter

Shifting to the

21st century Learning

Researching

European Innovation Academy Classroom: 23 online screens, computers and cameras, sensors to tech innovation and entrepreneurship

The Nobel Prize Winner Sir Harold Kroto

building bridges

international + innovation

Tallinn Tech =

international + innovation =

international student recruitment + companies international R&D + companies

internship + companies study program + companies

Tallinn Tech

Companies are essential part of the Value Creation in Tallinn Tech!!!

Vision 2015:

Tallinn Tech’s top quality

research is tied with globally

recognized enterprises.

Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. M.Viigimaa et al. Nature. Volume 478. 2011

Affinity gradients drive copper to cellular destinations. K.Zovo, P.Palumaa et al. Nature. Volume 465.2010

Tallinn Tech in Space

European Space Agency & Tallinn Tech: Study of the role of individual plant myosins in gravitropism. 2012

Environmental monitoring of harbor dredging. 2011 Totally around 10 different space related projects running.

Tallinn Tech key partners:

• Leading research universities: – Nordic countires,

– Asia (leading research universities)

– USA (Stanford, Berkeley)

• High tech start-ups (spin-offs)

• International Corporations

Tallinn Tech in Action internationalisation in the market

Silicon Valley Corps Stanford, Berkeley

Shanghai 211 RD Universities

Mektory: Tallinn Tech eService Innovation Centre

Tallinn Tech Innovation & Technology Trainings in Shanghai, Beijing, Macau – March 2012

Tallinn Tech in China

Tallinn Tech China

Workshops and Training in China:

• Data Mining and Information Systems

• Material Technologies

• Innovation Management

• Management

• Software Development

Tallinn Tech (TUT) in Silicon Valley

Plug and Play TechCenter

440 N.Wolfe Rd. Sunnyvale California 94085, USA

Researchers exchange from 2012

Students, researchers, staff exchange from

2010

Mr. Godswill Nkwusi started studies at Tallinn

Tech in 2011 but 2012 Fall he will be

student of UC Berkeley

Tallinn Tech students intensive training in Silicon Valley (2012): • Stanford • Berkeley • Venture Capitalists • Accelerators • Tech corporations

Next trainings in Silicon Valley: 21 Sept 2012 and 15 March 2013

Super Agile Innovation!

*Titled by Wired Magazine, August 2011

Europe's hottest start-up capitals: Tallinn*

SKYPE IT Academy

Science

Teaching

Innovation

Integration & Balance!

Tallinn Tech is your

adventure

Amundsen and crew reach the “last place on Earth” in December, 1911

Lonely

Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96.

Competition

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with

physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a

business venture, a love affair, or other major life

undertakings.

Adventure!

Learn hard!

Innovate and Network Globally! Have a Fun!