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ICT competence
- Company perspectives
16.3.2011 Tallinn
IT specialists in 2013 –
source of Estonia's competitiveness and export capability
Pauli Laitinen, ACE, Aalto
Yliopisto
Outline
1) Introduction
2) Anatomy of top-performers
3) Competence requirements in business
4) Two major programs on ICT in Finland
as examples
5) Conclusions and thoughts for ICT
education
Pauli Laitinen, ACE, Aalto Yliopisto
Pauli Laitinen- back ground
- Ph.D. in Physics
- 40 patents and >25 publications
- 13 years experience with global technology innovations in various positions :
- Aito Interactive -CTO in global start-up
- Nokia – both research and product development
- University of Helsinki (Post Doctoral Researcher Academy of Finland),
Career High lights
- Ramp up the radiation facility RADEF for qualified ESA research stations 2003
- Project manager and major contributor in two breakthrough projects in Nokia Research 2004-2007
- Top inventor 2007-2008 award at Nokia
- Mass production capability and set-up of breakthrough technology achieved 2009
- Multimodal touch based user interfaces releases at Aito Interactive
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Pauli- Current position
Head of Innovation Services at Aalto University
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Aalto:
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Leading technology oriented University in Finland with
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17 000 students, 4 300 staff members, 300 professors
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Innovation Services as TLO of Aalto:
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50 patents filed
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2M/y pre-seed funding
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15 companies
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0.5M€ licensing income,
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Inventions
priority applications
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x*1M€ research funding
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2010
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What is ACE Today ?
Innovation research
SME research
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Entrepreneurship
Education
Entrepreneurship
Research
Innovation Services
and Technology
Transfer
Growth
Venturing and
Start-Up Services
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Huom:
Necessary
Combo of
Academic
And
Practice!
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ICT competence
- Company perspectives
”It is all about people”
Anatomy of top-performers
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Yliopisto
Case ”Pekka”
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Reads at age of 4
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Programs games in functional
calculator at age of 13
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Recruited to Nokia when 2nd year
Automation student at Helsinki
University of Technology
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Case ”Pekka”
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Now Key strategic architect
in User Interface ”front end”
for mobile phones in Nokia
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10 years of strong track record
of delivering for corporate
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University studies as hobby
and now preparing doctoral
theses at Aalto
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Case ”Jukka”
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Builds the programmable
Logic at the age of 12
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Programs 3D engine for PC
at age of 13
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Works for Swedish bank
in coding the web based
bank services at age of 16
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Case ”Jukka”
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Now ”Jukka” has own company
and also for another as an
shareholder and leading embedded
SW developer in very demanding
MCU environment
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Has started the University studies in
Computational science, never graduated
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Companies need for
exceptional people
Employers head-hunts people like
”Jukka” and ”Pekka”
because for their exceptional talent
- Why it is so important?
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Explosion of knowledge and R&D
Master Degrees
SW Developers
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Researchers
Investments
Fierce and global competition
Unseen speed in progress
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Anatomy of required competence
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Track record of delivering is above all
Proof of adopting new challenges
Awareness of development in own field
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Need to start accumulating as early as possible
“throw in cold water”-situations
Find and join into relevant professional groups
e.g
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ICT competence development in
Finland
Two major program examples:
1) TiViT2) EIT ICT Labs
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TiViT- public funded program on ICT
TEKES
(579 M€/2177 projects)
Tivit
ICT (40 M€)
1/6 of SHOKs
Strategic Centres for Science,
Technology and Innovation
Programs
Flexible
Services
(7 M€)
Cooperative
Traffic
(6 M€)
Future
Internet
(10 M€)
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Device &
Interoperability
(6 M€)
Cloud
Software
(8 M€)
Next
Media
(4 M€)
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Innovation Wheel
Open Telco
Spinoffs
Technologies&Business
(TeliaSonera&Aalto)
Business
Development
Lessons learnt
(Aalto Venture
Garage)
User evaluation
(VTT&Aalto)
Service
prototypes
Software Factory
Implementation
(University of Helsinki,
Gearshift Group Oy)
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Usage
Scenarios
User acceptance
(VTT&Aalto)
Cloud
Field trials
User
Experience
APIs
Validated
service ideas
Business
cases
Business
Scenarios
Business acceptance
(VTT&Aalto Service
Factory)
Telecom APIs complement other APIs
Hobbies
Public
transportation
Travelling
Location
Social media
Message
Voice
Payment
OPEN
TELCO
APIs
Context
Context
Emergency
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Identity
Profile
SLA
Ecommerce
& advertizing
B2B
Public
sector
Cloud Software program and
Open Telco
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Our set of catalysts drive innovation
towards the market
Creation
Transition
Acceleration
Innovation nucleus
Doctoral
PhD School
Innovation in established companies
Mobility for universityindustry crossover
Master
MSc School
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Post-Doctoral
Program (start 2012)
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Innovation Radar and
foresight studies
Computing in
the cloud
Technology transfer
center
Business
Club
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Entrepreneurship
Support System
ICT-mediated
Human Activity
Internet Technologies
and Architectures
Personal networks
Colocation
centers
Club
Access to
finance
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Business
Angels Club
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Club
Entrepreneurs
Club
Seed
VC
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Partnering with
Venture Capitalists
New business creation
Open Innovation
Innovation culture
Attractive environment
Benchmarking
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Building of catalyst
started
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Building of catalysts
to be started
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Action
needed
Conclusive remarks:
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Top performers like “Pekka” and “Jukka” are
truly needed
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Anatomy of Top Performers equals to Top
athlete: Talent and life-time commitment
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Global and Fierce competition sets bar high and
urgency in competence development
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New programs brings business, research and
education into same hubs
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Thoughts for ICT education:
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Motivation to continuous Self development
International and Social networks involved
from beginning
System level training sessions
“Hands on”- work aligned with theoretical
teaching
Updates on Latest development included to
courses
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Practical considerations:
School:
Company:
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Sharing:
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Problems
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Trainee positions
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Development platforms&
communities
Sharing the curriculum
Call for exercise works
Student lists to summer
job/training sessions
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Continuous dialog
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