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Quick overview

• Part of https://taltech.ee/en/bec2026
  • 📅 Date: October 5, 2026
  • 📍 Location: TalTech Student House
  • ⏱️ Time: 10:00-15:30
• Focus is academic spin-offs / deep tech entrepreneurship - blockers, enablers and experience
• Keywords: Defence tech, MedTech, xTech, Entrepreneurship </aside>

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Registration

Pre-registration is closed.

If you’re not yet registered but would like to join the event as a local, please contact [email protected] and [email protected].

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Schedule

Schedule

Details

Topics

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1️⃣ University and RTO support for spin-offs

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• Spin-off support structures and technology transfer at TalTech
• Spin-off support mechanism in Estonia (e.g. Prototron, Tehnopol, Metrosert)
• Collaboration opportunities in and outside Estonia

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2️⃣ Entrepreneurial experience

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• First-hand perspectives from founders who transitioned from academia to industry
• Key challenges, lessons learned, and success factors

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3️⃣ Interactive session: startup ideas from students in audience

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• what ideas are there - do they classify as deep tech?
• what keeps them from being realized?
• what could be done to help?

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4️⃣ Panel discussion: Aligning academic and industrial careers

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• How to balance or transition between academic research and entrepreneurship
• Institutional, professional, and personal considerations
• Hybrid funding schemes & new funding model more focused on entrepreneurship

Goals:

• Identify blockers to deeptech innovation starting from academia, and how to remove them
• Identify enablers of deeptech innovation starting from academia - the role of the University, RTO, state, in enabling early-stage growth
• Analyze pathways to commercialization in emerging engineering fields, including:
  • Defence tech
  • MedTech and Biotech
  • xTech
• Naturally, networking 🙂

Presenters & panelists

Confirmed organizers & presenters

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The following presenters have confirmed their participation

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Conclusion

The event is organized by IEEE Estonia Section, jt. Chapter IM/ED/EMB and co-organized by IEEE Estonia Young Professionals Affinity Group and Thomas Johann Seebeck Electronics Club. vTools event: 574036.