2013 Winter Academy
Courses | Lecturers |Cultural programme | Venue | Deadlines
Having an excellent experience with European Innovation Academy 2012 we invite you to take part in our intensive winter program. Tallinn University of Technology is offering you most stimulating academic environment, a vibrant community of motivated students and distinguished faculty in Winter Innovation Academy 21.01-27.01.2013!
Winter European Innovation Academy is a place for transforming your knowledge, ideas and skills into real INNOVATION.
Innovation Academy is suitable for Engineering, Science and Business students as well as professionals who are intending to pursue a career in innovative management.
Winter Innovation Academy 2013 brings together famous motivational guest speakers. Guest lecturers are innovation experts from world-famous and successful companies Microsoft and Samsung.
European Innovation Academy 2013 brings together unique sessions which you have never seen before!
- Innovators’ Speed Date & Team Marriage
- Entrepreneurs’ Failure Pitching
- James Bond Innovation Challenge
- Star Trek Technology Lab
- Pitching for Venture Capitalists
- Hands on Innovation Lab
- Lego Lab Prototyping
It is a place for exciting workshops and attractive discussions with professionals. It is a place where you are experiencing the opportunity of a lifetime: collaborating with world-famous start-up experts, answering big questions and transforming your increasing knowledge in the field of innovation.
Winter Innovation Academy 2013 provides with an opportunity to explore the world of Business, Innovation and Technology in the modern and exciting environment of Tallinn University of Technology.
Through series of lectures, presentations and workshops students will be able to develop knowledge about turning innovative ideas into a successful venture. Students and entrepreneurs are divided into different groups taking into consideration knowledge and experience in this area
Key topics in the course:
- Innovation Management and Process
- Corporate and Technology Strategy
- New Product Development (incl. service development)
- Creativity and Innovation Culture
- Entrepreneurship Spirit and Skills
- High Tech Products Marketing
- Management of IPR
- Business Model Design
- Competitive Forces
- Competing with Business Models
Courses
Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook were founded by college students. Could you be building the next star technology start-up?
This course provides basic knowledge and skills to help you answer this question.
Winter Innovation Academy 2013 session holds three parts:
1. Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2 days)
- How changes in technology paradigms give rise to novel opportunities (Xbox Kinect, Youtube cases)?
- How to identify, analyze and exploit these opportunities (Netflix, iPod cases)?
- How to design innovative products, to create sustainable competitive edge (iPhone case)?
- How to transform loose topics on technologies, opportunities, customers, markets to unique strategic business plans (Hilton, iPad cases)?
- How to transform these plans into focused execution while avoiding common mistakes (Procter & Gamble, Android cases)?
Get yourself on a wave of innovation watching some great speeches from innovation experts from all around the world:
- Henry Chesbrough – Open Services Innovation
- Steve Blank – Rethinking the Product Development Process
- Eric Ries – The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation
2. Business Model Innovation (2 days)
- What is a business model?
- What features should a good business model possess?
- How aggressively can a given business model distress other industry participants?
- Can I design a successful business model?
Get to know different business models of world-known companies
3. Designing Social Applications as Software-Intensive Products (1 day)
The major models that we study in the course are goal, role and domain models for problem domain analysis and interaction, knowledge and behavior models for design.The course is illustrated by examples and exercises of designing social applications, such as the apps for societal parking, healthcare, and grocery shopping.
This course is suitable for students, entrepreneurs and as well as professionals who are intending to pursue a career in innovative management. Groupworks are organized taking into consideration knowledge and experience in this area.
See an impressive speech given by Clay Shirky – How Social Media Can Make History.
Lecturers
European Innovation Academy does not stop surprising you – we have two additional professors in winter academy who are going to share their knowledge in the field of innovation & science. Keep your eye on our list to gain up-to-date information about our lecturers!
Winter Innovation Academy 2013 brings together famous motivational guest speakers. Guest lecturers are innovation experts from world-famous and successful companies Microsoft and Samsung.
The Key Lecturer of Winter Innovation Academy 2013 Prof. Dr. Mark Harris is going to talk about Global Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Smart Business Models. Prof. Dr. Mark Harris is the former head of INTEL Higher Education & Research Programmes.
Prof. Mark Harris
Prof. Thomas J. Howard
His research is based in the fields of engineering design and product development.
However, Thomas J. Howard have three key, complementary areas of research expertise, namely; ?Design & Business Strategies, ?Engineering Design? and “Human behavior and Cognition?. During all research work, he has maintained a balance between theoretical and industrially focused action research based methodologies.
He sees the emergence of the Open Design paradigm as the most interesting and revolutionary topics in design research and shall be the current focus of my current research, complemented by masters projects in Open Innovation and PhD projects in Value chain and PSS.
In the area of engineering design professor is currently working on Open Design rapid prototyping, writing a book on conceptualisation and researching into Robust Design methods and measurement through a PhD project. This research is to have direct application for industry and has so far yielded much campy interest and involvement.
In his main area of expertise, Human behavior in Design and Design cognition he hopes to expand his research into Neuro-Design research, allowing greater objectivity to his research into creative stimulation.
Prof. Thomas J. Howard has expertise in numerous areas:
? Innovation and Design Creativity
? Design Theory
? Information Management
? Engineering Design Methods and Tools
Prof. Peter Kelly
! New know-how professional in European Innovation Academy !
Peter Kelly is lecturer at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management where he teaches creative entrepreneurship. During 2010, he held an appointment as Professor of Practice at the School of Art & Design where he developed a rapid opportunity prototyping course to explore the intersection between the disciplines of design and entrepreneurship.
Over the past 15 years, he has worked with entrepreneurs across Europe and Canada. He is also an angel investor. Mr. Kelly holds MBA from University of Notre Dame and a PhD from London Business School.
Prof. Marko Rillo
! New know-how professional in European Innovation Academy !
Marko has combined practical managerial experience and his interest towards management theory in his capacity as practicing manager, management consultant and a member of academic community. Hence, he is a manager with international management experience. He has worked as an executive and a team leader in starting up new initiatives and reorganizing existing businesses. As a consultant, Marko has advised and coached leaders in strategic management, performance management and business processes. As a speaker, Marko has been a public speaker on managerial issues in a number of conferences; presented at National TV as well as at different public events. As a researcher he has published a number of research papers on strategy. He has lectured on management in academia, where he is finalising his PhD thesis on strategy process.
Prof. Alistair Fee
! New know-how professional in European Innovation Academy !
Alistair Fee is an international trade specialist with experience in over 50 countries. He has studied manufacturing and marketing techniques in Afghanistan, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, India, Zimbabwe, USA, Japan, Germany, Ireland and elsewhere. At Queen?s University Belfast he runs courses in business start up, marketing, economics, innovation, leadership, creativity and negotiation for Masters PhD and Executive students. He has lectured at many universities including the European Business School, Strascheg center for Entrepreneurship at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, the Indian Institute of Science, the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, the American University of Central Asia, the American College of the Crimea, Dundalk Institute of Technology and is an Associate of the European CLUSTER Group.
Prof. Steve Taylor
! New know-how professional in European Innovation Academy !
Steve Taylor is a CEO, innovation specialist and an expert in strategic and creative thinking. He has held senior innovation posts in global corporate and independent entrepreneurial businesses. He is a speaker, author and publisher on leadership, management & innovation and has mentored entrepreneurs in the UK, China, Indonesia and worldwide.
He has spent the last three years developing his own approach to growing entrepreneurial companies – which he calls Systematic Business Innovation. This is based on the principle that, to be a successful entrepreneur, it is not enough to invent a new product or service. It is necessary to innovate every aspect of the business, from the commercial model to the internal culture. What’s more, it is essential to innovate every aspect of the entrepreneurial business at the same time – in an integrated way – because businesses are systems and that is how systems evolve and flourish.
In his presentations in Estonia in January, Steve will explain his unique approach in more detail and demonstrate some simple practical tools to help entrepreneurs in planning and implementing Systematic Business Innovation.
Prof. Kuldar Taveter
Kuldar Taveter has been a Professor of Software Engineering at the Tallinn University of Technology since autumn 2008. Before that, Professor Taveter worked at the University of Melbourne in Australia for three and a half years. Prior to this, he worked at the Technical Research center of Finland (VTT) for eight years. VTT introduces the ideas generated at universities and scientific institutions to the industry. As Taveter himself explains, his return to Estonia was motivated by two factors ? his wife wanted to return to Estonia and he had the chance to apply for professorship at the Tallinn University of Technology.
Australia is a beautiful and sunny, contemporary country that has recently become a dream destination for many Estonians. And Taveter admits that people have often asked him why he chose to leave that great place for Estonia where it is cold and dark. But there are no perfect places to be, and even Australia has its downsides despite its many virtues. ?Seasonal temps or tourists tend to see the country from one perspective only,? says Taveter.
In August 2009, one of the world?s most famous academic publishers, MIT Press, published a book by Professor Taveter and Professor Leon Sterling, titled ?The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling?. On the one hand, it serves as a textbook for Master?s and Doctoral students; on the other hand, it helps manufacturers and businesses to realise their innovative ideas.
An interview for the Estonian innovation magazine.
An interview by the weekly “Free Times” newspaper of Columbia, USA.
Lect. Alar Kolk
Alar Kolk is one of the leading innovation lecturers in Nordic Europe, holding today the position of Vice Rector, Innovation and Internationalisation in Tallinn University of Technology. He has been acknowledged widely for his work both nationally and internationally.
He has organized, chaired, presented at, and facilitated ca 200 conferences and workshops in innovation, businesss models and strategy. He is a founder of successful Stratos Futuris biannual conference.
Alar places a major emphasis on strengthening collaboration with distinguished universities in Silicon Valley (Berkeley, Stanford) and in China (Fudan, Tsinghua). Therefore Alar founded a professional society called MBA Futuris that creates and nurtures a global community in which people and businesses learn to grow and prosper through innovation and the introduction of new business models.
In addition to an excellent manager, he is respected as an excellent lecturer, combining theory with exciting workshops and attractive discussions. Alar Kolk has been active in the field of innovation and business over 15 years, providing students with the opportunity to explore the World of Business, Innovation and Technology. His research focus is on Fortune 500 companies’ (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, etc.) innovation and management systems. He has consulted numerous companies how to accelerate business growth and deliver new products, and services.
Alar has impressive professional experience ? Alar Kolk has graduated from and studied in several universities, including MIT, Aalto, INSEAD, and has been originator of several very important organisations in the Estonian innovation system. As a lecturer and as a manager he is described as an open-minded person, who is willing to accept the challenges in the world of innovation.
Lect. Indrek Maripuu
Indrek Maripuu is an entrepreneur and an expert in the field of business model innovation and creativity. His workshops are based on his own life – as a businessman he has experienced both success and failure. He has been active in manufacturing and service sectors.
In order to create value and really help organisations to be more innovative (instead of just talking about it) he has developed a new tool – a board game for senior executives. His current efforts are focused on marketing the tool internationally and developing a unique ?innovation farm? in Southern Estonia, close to the Russian border.
As lecturer and facilitator he has run different innovation workshops in Nordic private companies (Nordea, Swedbank etc), Estonian public sector organisations (Bank of Estonia, Enterprise Estonia, several Ministries etc) as well as Estonian universities and schools.
Lect.Tiit Paananen
CEO of Skype! He is a former head of Skype software testing department.
“We want to be not only part of the Skype division of Microsoft, but we want to become more widely known as a center of software engineers” – Paananen
R&D and Innovation Professionals from Microsoft and Samsung
Winter Innovation Academy 2013 brings together famous motivational keynote guest speakers. Guest lecturers are innovation experts from world-famous and successful companies MICROSOFT and SAMSUNG. R&D and Innovation Professionals from Microsoft and Samsung provide you with fascinating lectures about the vision of future technology and innovation. Names of the experts wll be announced soon!
Jonathan Naughton Green (Samsung Electonics, UK) visited European Innovation Academy 2012 and gave innovative speech about SMART-TV future vision.
Cultural programme
The essence of the social and cultural programme is to help participants to gain a valuable overview of Estonian culture based on local heritage, and to enhance links between the different courses. We endeavor to show you the wide diversity of Estonia?s culture and to create a meeting place for you all.
During the evenings you can enjoy different free-time activities:
- Guided tour in marvelous Old Town
- Guided tour at the passages under the Old Town`s Swedish Bastions
- Tour around Kadriorg and a visit to KUMU Art Museum
- Public lecture
- International evening
- Visit to international enterprises - SKYPE visit!
- Chocolate afternoon with professional chocolate makers in the biggest and oldest confectionery company in Estonia.
- Open air ice-skating in a romantic Old Town
Venue
Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia
Deadlines
The deadline for registration is 01.12.2012!
Winter European Innovation Academy Early Bird Price (Registration before 01.11.2012) 390.00?
General price (Registration deadline 01.12.2012) 450.00?
Cultural Programme 75?
Scholarships and discounts available!
“Boost up student creativity” scholarship: Group consisting of 10 students allows professors/university staff members to have a free trip to Tallinn!
