Innovation 1918 - 2018 Entrepreneural University For Science

Alar Kolk Vice Rector, Innovation & Internationalisation

Welcome to Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn Tech!

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

international + innovation = Best Place to Stay (ESN Survey 2010

Best Student Services (iGraduate 2009) Estonia no 1, Internet Freedom Nato Cyber Defence Centre

Best Performing Economy (EuropeanVoice) Global Topp Digital City no 7 Air Quality Global Rank 1

Tallinn Tech

International Tallinn Tech!!! 30% from Finland, 20% from Asia

Ca 1000 international students from more then 65 countries study in Tallinn Tech today...

...students and researchers from leading Asian’ countries.

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)

Vision 2015:

Tallinn Tech’s top quality

research is tied with globally

recognized enterprises.

Science

Teaching

Innovation

Integration & Balance!

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!

DEVELOP INTERDICIPLINARITY

E-Mobility : Over 40 Million Electric 2 Wheelers and 4 Wheelers will be Sold Annually Around the Globe in

2020

XM 3000 Electric Moped Sanyo Enacle The GEM Peapod The Smith Newton

Total 30 million –

2 Wheelers (2020)

Total 10 Million –

4 Wheelers (2020)

Estonian Government, Tallinn Tech and Corporate Partners Developing eMobilty

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

Datamining of electric cars’ usage

Datamining project of electric cars’ driving qualities in the

Nordic conditions – a joint project with Mitsubishi Motor

Corporation.

Estonia is a very compact country – good opportunity to test

new ideas across whole country

Project leader: Innar Liiv from TUT IT-faculty.

Members: 6 IT students, 1 mechanics student, 1 Academy of

Arts student.

Interactive cooking book

Interactive cookbook – a joint project with Swinburne

University of Technology. A cooking book will be developed

that could be used in social media networks.

Project leader: Prof. Kuldar Taveter from IT-faculty.

Members: 5 IT students and students from Swinburne

University of Technology.

Efficient montage of communication

equipment

A new concept for communication equipment montage will be developed for Ericsson Eesti AS.

Project leader: Eduard Ševtšenko from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Members: 7 mechanical engineering students (incl 2 foreign students) and 2 consultants from TUT.

Information screen for real-estate

management

An information screen will be developed for Riigi

Kinnisvara AS.

The screen will give overview of energy consumption in a

building.

Project leader: Kristo Klesment from IT-faculty.

Members: students from Academy of Arts; IT, marketing

and environmental technology students of TUT.

New design for serving peanuts and

drinks

Product development for serving peanuts and drinks for Olde Hansa

restaurants.

As outcome, product prototypes and service design concept for innovative

serving of peanuts and drinks in restaurants and cafes.

Project leader: Prof. Heikki Zoova (Estonian Academy of Arts).

Members: 10 product design students from Academy of Arts, 4 marketing

students from TUT, 4 mechanical engineering students from TUT, 4 film

students from Tallinn University and 2 advising faculty members from TUT.

Healthy lifestyle

Project „Healthminer“ – a platform will be developed for

practicing healthy lifestyle in social media networks.

Project leader: Prof. Kuldar Taveter from IT-faculty.

Memebrs: 7 students from TUT.

MEKTORY new building

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YjNoMp8G9Q

> opening in autumn

> area of 4450 square meters

> 15 prototyping labs equipped for

electronics, mechatronics,

welding, 3d printing etc.

> demo centers (Samsung, Ericsson,

Satellite Showroom, e-Health,

e-Governance and others)

> exhibition halls for introducing schoolchildren to science

> open 24x7 for student members

July 2013 in Tallinn

– 200 students from 40 countries will create innovative applications in 15 days!

• I: Ideas, customers

• III: Prototype & $$

• II: Business Models

The Academy 8 – 26 July, weeks 1-3

Startup your business / new product or service in 15 days!

ARE YOU SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM?

“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.

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.

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?

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

Fail fast. Fail cheap. Fail early. Go out to fail.

Follow The Innovation F-word!

Tallinn Tech in Action internationalisation in the market

Silicon Valley ICT corp

Shanghai 211 RD Universities

Mektory: Tallinn Tech eService Innovation Centre

Researchers exchange from 2012

Students, researchers, staff exchange from

2010

Tallinn Tech students’ intensive training in Silicon Valley (2013): • Stanford • Berkeley • Venture Cap • Accelerators • Tech corporations:

• Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc.

Contact: alar.kolk@ttu.ee

Silicon Valley Start!

Next trainings in Silicon Valley: 21 Sept 2013

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

Tallinn Tech: Silicon Valley Start Program Tallinn Tech Students in Google Headquartes, March 2013

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

Tallinn Tech is Leading R&D Performer in Asia

China:

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Qingdao University of Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology Beijing

China University of Petroleum, Beijing

Macau University of Science and Technology

Japan:

The University of Electro-Communications

Tokyo Denki University

Korea:

• Sun Moon University of Korea

• Korea Polytechnic University

• Kyungpook National University

• Hallym University

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 ecosystem... …creates value for professors,

students & companies!

Corporate R&D

Technology MeKTory

Ideas

ProtoFund Test

Tehnopolis

Growth Technology Transfer

Develop

Promote: Tallinn Tech International Media

Demo: Tech Demo Centre, Edu-labs, Asia-Tech

Tallinn * Silicon Valley * Shanghai

Finance: Tallinn Tech iProject Centre