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

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

3. 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

5. International Tallinn Tech!!!
40% from Finland, 20% from Asia
Ca 900 international students from more then 70
countries study in Tallinn Tech today...

6. 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

7. Tallinn Tech: Health Care Technology

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

9. Tallinn Tech: Design & Engineering

10. Tallinn Tech: Technology Law

11. 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.

12. 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

14. Engineering the mind of the future

15. Innovation
Ideas & Creativity
Business Models
Entrepreneurship

16. Inter-diciplinarity and
industry cooperation
17th of Sept next competition starts!
Start up
Entrepreneurs Corp Business
MeKTory!
• Applied research Quality
• Business models Master or
• Prototype PHD Thesis
• Growth
Scientific
Career!
Professors

20. Sir Richard Branson

23. Innovators’ Failure Pitching @ European Innovation Academy

24. European Innovation Academy Sessions Summer & Winter

25. Shifting to the
21 st century
Learning
Researching

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

27. The Nobel Prize Winner Sir Harold Kroto

28. building bridges

29. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

30. 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!!!

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

32. 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

33. 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.

34. Tallinn Tech key partners:
• Leading research universities:
– Nordic countires,
– Asia (leading research universities)
– USA (Stanford, Berkeley)
• High tech start-ups (spin-offs)
• International Corporations

35. Tallinn Tech in Action
internationalisation in the market
Silicon Valley Corps Shanghai
Stanford, Berkeley 211 RD Universities
Mektory: Tallinn Tech
eService Innovation Centre

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

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

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

39. Researchers exchange
from 2012
Students, researchers,
staff exchange from
2010

40. Mr. Godswill Nkwusi
started studies at Tallinn
Tech in 2011 but
2012 Fall he will be
student of UC Berkeley

42. 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

44. Super Agile Innovation!

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

46. Integration & Balance!
Science
Teaching
Innovation

47. Tallinn Tech
is your
adventure

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

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

50. Adventure!
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.

51. Learn hard!
Innovate and Network Globally!
Have a Fun!