mba business innovation @ estonian business school
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25 years international business education
Business Innovation MBA
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Developing innovations from idea to market
Toomas DannebergProgram Manager, MBA BIVice Rector for International Collaboration
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage
• Oldest and biggest private university in the region
• Since 2011 Branch in Finland• 1500 students, 4500 alumni• 30% international students• 20% international teaching staff• Over 70 partner universities worldwide• 16 years of student entrepreneurship
Estonian Business School
Friday, 24. April 2015
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Business Innovation is a unique 2-year MBA:
Student Teams work on …
..own or corporate project ideas…
Corporate Innovation
New Venture
…resulting in business value.
Friday, 24. April 2015
Proof of IdeaValidating the initial idea
Business Panel: Go/No-Go
Business Innovation programProof of BusinessTurning the concept into business
Business Panel: Go/No-Go
Proof of ConceptBuilding and testing the concept
Business Panel: Go/No-Go
Mentoring & Coaching
Team approach
Experimental learning approach
Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3
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Subjects – 1st semester Subjects – 2nd semester Subjects – 3rd semesterBootCamp Pricing Marketing Business Model Development Negotiations Financing a BusinessEntrepreneurial Finance Product and Service Development SalesProject Management Business Law Intellectual Capital
Mentoring and Coaching Value Proposition and Customer Development Innovation and Strategy
Corporate Governance Creative Leadership Digital CommunicationRisk Mitigation Cross-Cultural Management Business Development Business Development
Business Innovation program – the content
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1st semesterBootcamp Mart Kikas (MBA, MA), Marko
Rillo,Yrjo Ojasaar (Ph.D)
BD & Innovation consultants (EST)
Mentoring and Coaching Peep Aaviksoo (MBA) EBS Executive Training Centre (EST)Entrepreneurial Finance Harri Seppänen (PhD) EBS / Aalto University (FIN)Project and Team Management
Philipp Bousa (MA) Senior Manager at Accenture (GER, AUT)
Business Model Development Mart Kikas (MBA, MA) BD & Innovation consultant (EST)Risk Mitigation Paulo Andrez (MA) Former CEO of EBAN (POR)2nd semesterNegotiations Ilona Nurmela (PhD) Mediator (EST)Customer Development Rui Coutinho (PhD) Head of Porto Design Factory (POR)Product and Service Development
Mikko-Pekka Hanski (MSc), Lauri Repokari & Marko Nieminen (PhD)
Co-founder of Idean (FIN)CERN, Aalto
Cross-cultural Management Robert Crane (PhD) Professor (FRA)Business Law Anne Veerpalu (MBA) Attorney at Law (EST)Pricing Richard Zinoecker (MSc) Partner at Simon Kucher & Partners (GER)3rd semesterInnovation and Strategy Milan Lakhani (M.Sc) Strategist at BIC of Konica Minolta (UK)Sales Johan Bynell (MBA, M.Sc) Country Sales Manager Microsoft (SWE)Intellectual Capital Bo Heiden (PhD) Head of Centre for IP (SWE)
Business Innovation MBA as a co-creation approach to innovation
• Co-creation with mutual beneficiaries contributing to innovation. • Balancing in-house and external
development.
• Fostering innovation leadership.
• Developing methodologies and tools
• Creating real-world learning experience - experimental learning.
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Corporations&
New ventures
External
experts
Entrepreneurship – Bachelor program
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Specialisation in Tech Entrepreneurship
Ülle PihlakProgram ManagerHead of Student entrepreneurship and incubation
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Tech Entrepreneurship IBusiness model & MVP
Tech Entrepreneurship specialisation - Bachelor
Internship in Tech Entrep.Working for or building a startup
Tech Entrepreneurship IIBusiness concept & market
Mentoring
Team approach
Industry experts
Semester 1 Semester 2
Practical and experimental learning approach
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Tech Entrepreneurship specialisation - Bachelor
Tech Entrepreneurship I • Ideation – idea generation• Technology trends and developments• Idea validation• Value proposition• Business model • Design thinking• Prototyping• Market development• Programming• Presentation: business model and MVP
Tech Entrepreneurship II• Management and motivation in startup• Project management toolbox• Marketing • Product development and management • Market entry and exit strategies • Metrics in performance management • Funding• Legal aspects • Presentation techniques and skills• Presentation: concept and market
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Partners – experience-based learning
• Transferwise• GrabCad• Skype• Taxify
• Fleep• Gamefounders• Tehnopol• ...
