1. KEY
INNOVATION
CHALLANGES IN
UNIVERSITIES

2. Innovation 1918 - 2018
Entrepreneural University For Science
Alar Kolk
President, European Innovation Academy
Vice Rector, Innovation & Internationalisation

3. Welcome to Tallinn University of
Technology, Tallinn Tech!

4. Vision 2015:
Tallinn Tech’s top quality
research is tied with globally
recognized enterprises.

5. 8 Faculties and 4 colleges
ca 14 500 students: BA, MA, PHD
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

6. Tallinn Tech key topics:
How to recruit talented professors?
How to teach smart students?
How to be accelerated by innovation?
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein

7. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

8. building bridges

9. Mr. Godswill Nkwusi
started studies at Tallinn
Tech in 2011 but
2013 Winter he will be
student of UC Berkeley

10. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

11. Tallinn Tech
international + innovation =
 international student recruitment + companies
 international R&D + companies
 internship + companies
 study program + companies
Companies are essential part of the
Value Creation in Tallinn Tech!!!

12. Tallinn Tech cooperating in
International Markets
Focus on master and PHD students!
International activities in selected markets:
• Finland
• China
• Turkey
• India (2013), Brazil (2014), Korea (2015)

13. International Tallinn Tech!!!
30% from Finland, 20% from Asia
Ca 800 international students from more then 65
countries study in Tallinn Tech today...
...students and researchers from
leading Asian’ countries.

14. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
SAY ESTONIA IS THE BEST
COUNTRY FOR STAY!!!
*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.

15. 18 Master's level study
programmes in English
• Cyber Security
• eGovernment Technologies
• IT Forensic (2014)
• 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

16. 18 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

17. Tallinn Tech: Health Care Technology

18. Tallinn Tech:
• Computer Systems & Engineering
• Cyber Security
• IT Forensics
• eGovernment Technologies
1000 Gov. eServices in Estonia

19. Tallinn Tech: Design & Engineering

20. Tallinn Tech: Technology Law

21. KEY
INNOVATION
CHALLANGES IN
UNIVERSITIES

22. Co-educate for
joint future
#1

27. The End of Teaching as
we Know it!
• iTunes U – all major courses available
online for free from topp universities
• Stanford launched online course for
Computer Science class – 10 mil students
• Youtube is the major source of learning of
any subject

28. Shifting to the
21 st century
Learning
Researching
• Mentoring
• Carrier building
• Linking to Industry
• Focus identification
• International reach
• Interdiciplinarity experience

29. building bridges

30. Technology Entrepreneurship
Criteria US Europe Compar
ison
GDP (2010) 14.66 T$ 14.82 T$
Domestic Patents (2009) 82000 135000
VC activity (H1’2010) 12.4 B$ 2.6 B$
% of population that consider
67% 45%
entrepreneurship
% of population that become
13% 4.5%
entrepreneurs
% of population that accept possible
75% 54%
failure in a startup
Entrepreneurship Education since 1980’s Early 2000’s
Breadth (# types) 8 1-2

31. From Creative Start-up to
Master of Business Management
Cash
Flow
Business
The company Creation Business
Invention
Administration
t
The Business
Innovation
Technology Entrepreneurship Management Skills
Skills (MBA)
Derived: Prof. Jerry Engel UC Berkeley /Enhanced: Prof. Dr. Mark Harris

32. From Creative Start-up to
Master of Business Management
Cash
Flow
Business
The company Creation Business
Invention
Administration
Visioning the Future into the Present t
The Business
Innovation
Technology Entrepreneurship Management Skills
Skills (MBA)
Derived: Prof. Jerry Engel UC Berkeley /Enhanced: Prof. Dr. Mark Harris

33. From Creative Start-up to
Master of Business Management
Cash
Flow
Business
The company Creation Business
Invention Zone of Collaboration Administration
t
The Business Zone of Competition
Innovation
Technology Entrepreneurship Management Skills
Skills (MBA)
Derived: Prof. Jerry Engel UC Berkeley /Enhanced: Prof. Dr. Mark Harris

35. Engineering the mind of the future

36. July 2013: Tallinn – Helsinki – Stockholm – St Petersburg

37. European Innovation Academy Sessions:
• Innovators’ Speed Date
• Team Marriage
• Entrepreneurs’ Failure Pitching
• James Bond Innovation Challenge
• Star Trek Technology Lab
• Pitching for Venture Capitalists
• Hands on Innovation Lab
Key topics in the course: • Lego Lab Prototyping
• Innovation Management • Entrepreneur Live Kitchen
and Process
• Corporate and Technology Strategy
• New Product-Service Development
• Creativity and Innovation Culture
• Entrepreneurship Spirit and Skills
• High Tech Products Marketing
• Management of IPR
• Business Model Design
• Competitive Forces
• Competing with Business Models

38. Why 90% of
new products
and services
fail…
…and You need to practice
Innovators’ Failure
Pitching!!!
Challenge Yourself @ European Innovation Academy!

39. Fail fast.
Fail cheap.
Fail early.
Go out to fail.
Follow The Innovation F-word!

40. James Bond Innovation Challenge
• Rapid prototyping
• Bullet speed problem solving
• Master of high tech
• Rival your competitors
• Smooth operator & networker
Challenge Yourself @ European Innovation Academy Sessions!

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

42. Co-create for
social impact
#2

43. E-Mobility : Over 40 Million Electric 2 Wheelers and 4
Wheelers will be Sold Annually Around the Globe in
2020
Total 30 million – Total 10 Million –
2 Wheelers (2020) 4 Wheelers (2020)
Sanyo Enacle XM 3000 Electric Moped The GEM Peapod The Smith Newton

44. Europe’s biggest network of fast-charge
stations for electric cars will be built in
Estonia

45. Estonian Government, Tallinn Tech and
Corporate Partners Developing
eMobilty

46. Tallinn Tech Electric Cars in
Special Parking Lot in front of the University

47. Teach in every decipline:
• Innovation
• Ideas, Trends
• Business Models
• Entrepreneurship

48. DEVELOP INTERDICIPLINARITY

50. Change has changed...
Gary Hamel

53. Technology change…

54. internship
revolution

55. Challenge Yourself @ European Innovation Academy !
Star Trek Tech Lab
Future Tech Roadmaps
Mega & Micro Trends
Technological Singularity

56. Teach to „go out“
and discover the
future customers!
#3

59. Traditional Value Chain vs. Modern Value Chain

61. ARE YOU
SOLVING THE RIGHT
PROBLEM?
Most firms are not and that undermines
their innovation efforts…
Indeed, when developing new products, processes, or even
businesses, most companies aren’t sufficiently rigorous in defining the
problems they’re attempting to solve and articulating why those issues are
important. Without that rigor, organizations miss opportunities, waste
resources, and end up pursuing innovation initiatives that aren’t aligned
with their strategies.
“If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59
minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it,”
Albert Einstein said.

62. Customer Discovery

63. Customer Discovery:
"Get Out of the Building" to Test the
Problem: "Do Customers Care?"
Get your team "out of the building" to test the
problem and to answer three key questions:
• Do we really understand the customer's problem?
• Do enough people really care enough about the
problem for this to become a huge business?
• And will they care enough to tell their friends?

64. Customer Discovery: "Get out of the
Building" and Test the
Product/Service Solution

65. Put innovation
into every day
operation!
#4

66. Integration & Balance!
Science
Teaching
Innovation

67. Inter-diciplinarity and
industry cooperation
Start up
Entrepreneurs Corp Business
MeKTory!
• Applied research Quality
• Business models Master or
• Prototype PHD Thesis
• Growth
Scientific
Career!
Professors

68. Open innovation in Universities
Other firm´s
market
Licence, spin Our new
out, divest market
Internal
technology base
Internal/external Our current
venture handling market
External technology
insourcing
External technology base
Henry Chesbrough, 2004

69. Tallinn Tech ecosystem...
…creates value for professors,
students & companies!
Ideas Develop
Technology MeKTory Test T-Tech.Serv Growth
NorTic ProtoFund Tehnopolis
Demo: Tech Demo Centre, Edu-labs, Asia-Tech
Promote: Tallinn Tech International Mobile Media
Finance: Tallinn Tech iProject Centre
Tallinn * Silicon Valley * Shanghai

70. Europe's hottest start-up
capitals: Tallinn*
SKYPE
IT
Academy
*Titled by Wired Magazine, August 2011

71. Growth Agenda is
Global Reach
#5

72. Tallinn Tech in Action
internationalisation in the market
Silicon Valley Shanghai
ICT corp 211 RD Universities
Mektory: Tallinn Tech
eService Innovation Centre

73. Tallinn Tech eService Mektory
Shanghai & Silicon Valley
Experimental Future Innovative
Educational eServices Start-up
Labs Demonstration Accelerator
eGovernance Applications: eHealth, Cyber
Security, eLogistics, eUrban, EV & Smart Cities

74. Tallinn Tech is Leading R&D
Performer in Asia
Japan:
The University of Electro-Communications
Tokyo Denki University
Korea:
• Sun Moon University of Korea
• Korea Polytechnic University
• Kyungpook National University
• Hallym University
Singapore:
National University of Singapore
Taiwan:
Southern Taiwan University

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

76. Tallinn Tech China
Workshops and Training in China:
• Data Mining and Information Systems
• Material Technologies
• Innovation Management
• Management
• Software Development

77. Tallinn Tech (TUT) in
Silicon Valley
Plug and Play TechCenter
440 N.Wolfe Rd. Sunnyvale
California 94085, USA

78. Silicon Valley Start!
Tallinn Tech students’
intensive training in
Silicon Valley (2013):
• Stanford
• Berkeley
• Venture Cap
• Accelerators
• Tech corporations:
• Google, Microsoft, Face
Next trainings in Silicon Valley: book etc.
5 March 2013 & 21 Sept 2013
Contact: alar.kolk@ttu.ee

79. Tallinn Tech: Silicon Valley Start Program
Tallinn Tech Students & Professors in UC Berkeley, Sept 2012

80. Tallinn Tech: Silicon Valley Start Program
Tallinn Tech Students in Google Headquartes, Sept 2012

81. Tallinn Tech: Silicon Valley Start Program
Tallinn Tech Students Training @ Stanford, Sept 2012

82. Super Agile Innovation!

83. Silicon Valley Professors
in Tallinn Tech
• Recent Visits and Teaching in Tallinn Tech:
– Dr. Burton Lee, Stanford
– Prof. Oussama Khatib, Stanford
– Prof. Glenn Ballard, UC Berkeley
– Dr. Keith Devlin, Stanford
– Dr. Lisa Harper, UC Berkeley

84. 3D Print of your unborn baby: ultrasound image based