by Professor Tuula Teeri, President, Aalto University Global Education Industry Summit Oct 19-20, 2015 Most countries define education as a public good and a prime responsibility of public policy. But at the same time an education industry is developing, often at a global scale, offering various kinds of products and services to schools. This is most markedly the case in educational technology, but also in the field of educational resources, textbooks, and various kinds of support services. Moreover, global education industry leaders often express their views on the future of education and stress the need for 21st century skills and pedagogy. The time is ripe to establish a dialogue between ministers of education and the global education industry. To that end, the OECD, the European Commission and host country Finland invite ministers of education and industry leaders to the Global education Industry Summit in Helsinki. This summit will be a platform to bring together ministers of education, innovators and leaders of the private sector industries to discuss and engage in issues about education and strategies for innovation. It will enable the exploration of opportunities offered by innovation in teaching and learning, in order to leverage quality and equity of educational outcomes. The idea is to foster an innovation ecosystem in education, to explore the opportunities offered by innovation in teaching and learning, and to discuss the framework conditions for innovation in education which would leverage quality and equity of education’s outcomes. http://www.oecd.org/education-industry-summit/

1. Educating
Entrepreneurs?
- Cross-disciplinary Innovation at Work
Professor Tuula Teeri, President, Aalto University
Global Education Industry Summit Oct 19-20, 2015

2. 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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3. 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

4. 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

5. World's best product
developers?
Photo Aalto University Material Bank
Riga
New York

6. The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Aalto University
Education
Programs
Acceleration
Programs
Co-working
Environments
Internship
Programs
Tech transfer
Commercialization
Commercialization Financing
Open Innovation
House (Master of Science)
(MBA)

7. 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

8. 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 Beijing
October 2015

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