1. Innovation 1918 - 2018
Entrepreneural University For Science
Alar Kolk
Vice Rector, Innovation & Internationalisation

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

3. Engineering the mind of the future

5. Technology & Entrepreneurship
The New Way Forwards
Observations: Criteria US Europe Comparison Comment
• EU 2020 declaration highly Economies in same
focussed (#1 issue) on GDP (2010) 14.66 T$ 14.82 T$ Ballpark
innovation and Europe invents
entrepreneurship. Domestic Patents +65% more (actually
82000 135000
• Invention (ideas,patents ) (2009)
much more because no
SW patents in Europe,
is good, but
CII)
Europe only ~ 1/5th
commercialization is not. the VC
• Very low VC activity in EU VC activity (H1’2010) 12.4 B$ 2.6 B$
(1/5th US), huge equity
GAP % of population that US is 50% higher
• Attitude of consider 67% 45%
entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship
failure not being an option % of Population that US is 289% higher
13% 4.5%
a big hindering factor. become
entrepreneurs
• Need to catch-up on some US 40% higher
% of population that
20+ years of accept possible 75% 54%
entrepreneurship education failure in a startup
• Need to broaden where and Trying to catch up 20-
Entrepreneurship
how entrepreneurship is
25years of Education
1980’s Early 2000’s and attitude
Education since
taught
• Need to get EU success Programs in HE and
now starting in K12
rates (20%) close to US Breadth (# types) 8 1-2
(30%).

6. Innovation
Ideas
Business Models
Entrepreneurship

7. Shifting to the
21 st century
Learning
Researching

9. building bridges

10. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

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

12. internship
revolution

13. International Tallinn Tech!!!
Ca 700 international students from more then 65
countries study in TUT today.
Ca 400 new international students started their studies in
Tallinn Tech Fall 2011.
Tallinn Tech is the most international university as well
the most international organisation in Estonia.

14. 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)

15. 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.

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

17. Tallinn Tech key partners:
• Leading research universities:
– Nordic countires: (KTH, Aalto),
– China (Jao Tong, Fudan)
– USA (Stanford, Berkeley)
• High tech start-ups (spinn-offs)
• International Corporations

18. 15 Master's level study
programmes in English
• International Business Administration (MBA)
• International Relations and European Studies
• Law and Technology Law
• Finance and Economic Analysis
• Technology Governance
• Cyber Security
• Software Engineering
• Computer Systems & Engineering
• Communicative Electronics
• Industrial Engineering and Management
• Environmental Management and Cleaner Production
• Materials and Processes of Sustainable Energetics
• Health Care Technology
• Design and Engineering

19. Tallinn Tech: Health Care Technology

20. Tallinn Tech:
• Computer Systems & Engineering
• Cyber Security

21. Tallinn Tech: Design & Engineering

22. Tallinn Tech: Technology Law

23. Tallinn Tech in Action
internationalisation in the market
Silicon Valley Corps Shanghai
Stanford, Berkeley 211 RD Universities
Enterprise Estonia,
Aalto cooperation

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

25. Researchers exchange
from 2012
Students, researchers,
staff exchange from
2009

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

27. 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

28. Super Agile Innovation!

29. Integration & Balance!
Science
Teaching
Innovation

30. MeKTory!
Modern Estonian Knowledge
Transfer Organisation for You!
 Interdisciplinary platform
 Attracting international students
 Integration of study and practice
Business Model Engineering * Mobile & Media Services * Design & Engineering

31. Inter-diciplinarity between
international students
Start up
Entrepreneurs Corp Business
MeKTory!
• Applied research Quality
• Business models Master or
• Prototype PHD Thesis
• Growth
Scientific
Career!
Professors

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

34. Tallinn Tech ecosystem...
Ideas Develop
Technology MeKTory Test TechServ Growth
NorTic ProtoFund Tehnopolis
Tallinn Tech International Mobile Media
…creates value for professors,
students and companies –
enhances our ecosystem!