Educating Entrepreneurs?- Cross-disciplinary Innovation at Work

Professor Tuula Teeri, President, Aalto UniversityGlobal Education Industry Summit Oct 19-20, 2015

University education Current trends

• Research-based – impact on society• Massification – access to higher education• Globalization – student mobility, competition• Digitalization – MOOCs/blended learning• Working life relevance - employment• Generic skills: leadership, multicultural/teamwork,

communication and language skills• Life-long learning – no longer one career• Entrepreneurial spirit

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Aalto – The Innovation University

Where Science and Art meet Technology and Business

• First class research, art and education• Multidisciplinary collaboration• Entrepreneurship• Tangible societal impact – industrial renewal

Our Co-creative Innovation Ecosystem

Promoting entrepreneurship and

business renewal

… where Science and Art meet Technology

and Business

Open innovation and co-location with

strategic partners

Co-creative education of

game changers

World's best product developers?

Photo Aalto University Material Bank

Riga

New York

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Aalto University

EducationPrograms

AccelerationPrograms

Co-workingEnvironments

InternshipPrograms

Tech transferCommercialization

Commercialization Financing

Open Innovation House (Master of Science)

(MBA)

Introduction• Changemakers• Opportunity Prototyping• Introduction to IT Business

and Venturing

Project Courses• Growth and Inter-

nationalization of Technology SMEs

• Collaborative Innovation Management

• Global Team-based Design Innovation

• Product Development Project

• Internship Innovation Project

• High Growth Entrepreneurship with varying content

Core Curriculum• Entrepreneurial Finance• Entrepreneurial Leadership• Entrepreneurial Marketing• Design and Innovation in

Context• Managing Innovative Sales• Strategies for Growth and

Renewal• Management of a Software• Venture• Seminar on ICT-

law ,"Exploitation of IPR"• Shaping Entrepreneurial

Thinking

Students as co-creators and leaders

• World-class event organised by Aalto students• 1 500 growth companies and 14 000 participants (2014)• CEOs of more than 100 listed companies present

SLUSH in BeijingOctober 2015

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