Tallinn University of Technology is expanding its presence and partnerships in Silicon Valley through student internships, training programs, and joint operations with Stanford and Berkeley. The university has opened an office in Silicon Valley's Plug and Play TechCenter to facilitate these collaborations. TUT aims to commercialize its technologies and benefit from Silicon Valley investments by installing its science and innovations in Valley companies. Topics of focus include recruiting talented professors and students, making money from innovation, and shifting to 21st century learning models that integrate science, teaching, and innovation.

1. Silicon Valley Start
Alar Kolk, Vice Rector, Innovation & Internationalisation
Andrus Viirg, Director, Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley Office
Chris Burry, Director, US Market Access Center

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

3. Tallinn Tech
Silicon Valley Office 2012
• Tallinn Tech Students’ Internship in Silicon Valley
– 2012 Sept open
– Nokia Silicon Valley Office, Guzik Instruments, etc.
• Tallinn Tech Students’ Training in Silicon Valley
– April 2012 first students start training in Silicon Valley
– 2nd round competition announced March 2012
• Joint Operations with Stanford and Berkeley
– Dr Lisa Harper (gene technology) in Tallinn Tech, 1 March
– US Education and Silicon Valley Week, 17 – 21 April 2012

4. MiTV team starts up training
in Silicon Valley 31 March
Ben E Coli Team - Global Ocean
Cleaning App Based Business Model
– among Top10 Berkeley App
competion (The University Mobile
Challenge™).

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

6. Tallinn Tech =
international + innovation

7. Europe's hottest start-up
capitals: Tallinn*
*Titled by Wired Magazine, August 2011

8. International Tallinn Tech!
Ca 700 international students from more then 65
countries study in TUT today.
Ca 400 new student started their studies in Tallinn Tech
Fall 2011.
Tallinn Tech is the most international university as well
the most international organisation in Estonia.

9. 13 Master's level study
programmes in English
• International Business Administration (MBA)
• International Relations and European Studies
• Law
• Technology Governance
• Cyber Security
• Software Engineering
• Computer and Systems Engineering
• Communicative Electronics
• Industrial Engineering and Management
• Environmental Management and Cleaner Production
• Materials and Processes of Sustainable Energetics
• Health Care Technology
• Design and Engineering

10. Tallinn Tech: Health Care Technology

11. Tallinn Tech: Technology Law

12. Tallinn Tech: Computer Systems & Engineering

13. Tallinn Tech: Design & Engineering

14. 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.

15. Tallinn
Techinnovation
international + =

16. Tallinn Tech key topics:
How to recruit talented professors?
How to recruit smart students?
How to make money from innovation?
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein

18. Shifting to the
21 st century
Learning

19. vision connecting implementation

20. building bridges

21. Integration & Balance!
Science
Teaching
Innovation

22. Tallinn Tech in Action
internationalisation in the market
Silicon Valley Corps Shanghai
Stanford, Berkeley Growth Universities
Enterprise
Estonia, Aalto

23. We believe that this university
should commit itself to achieving
the goal, before this decade is
out, of installing our technologies
and science in the companies of
the Silicon Valley and benefiting
from the investments to the
Estonia.

24. We choose to go to the
Silicon Valley!

25. We choose to go to the Silicon
Valley, not because this is easy, but
because this is hard, because that
goal will serve to organise and
measure the best of our professors
and skills, because that challenge is
one that we are willing to accept, one
we are unwilling to postpone, and
one which we intend to win.

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

27. Journey to Silicon Valley!

28. Why to Grow in
Silicon Valley

29. Nerds

32. Rich
People

33. Do we really need
Rich People?
No, but they make things go much faster!

34. Super Agile Innovation!

35. Market Value $ 352,062,807,250

36. Its not only R&D, but also
entreprenurship and market/ing

44. Downtown San Jose

45. Silicon Valley Professors in
Tallinn Tech 2011
• Open Lectures and Teaching (June – Dec):
– Dr. Burton Lee, Stanford
– Prof. Oussama Khatib, Stanford
– Prof. Glenn Ballard, UC Berkeley
– Dr. Keith Devlin, Stanford

46. What do you need
to start tonight?
…vision?
…money, time?
…bravery?
17 Feb 06:45 Tallinn - San Francisco