Innovation and Technology Management University of Tartu

Overview

The programme aims to educate specialists who can implement ICT solutions to management processes of enterprises and thus help companies grow through more added value created. Qualified students should have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in economics, mathematical sciences, or technology sciences (including IT).

Why study Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Tartu ?

• You can receive two diplomas by spending your second year at Ghent University (Belgium).

• An interdisciplinary programme combines management, innovation, digitalisation and IT.

• Turn your business ideas into reality and develop your own company during your studies.

• After graduation, you can work as an innovation or process manager, start your own company or work in innovation policy or digitalisation.

• The University of Tartu belongs to the top 350 universities in the world.

Career opportunities

After graduation, students have an opportunity to work as innovation or process managers in any company that is already implementing or planning to implement ICT solutions in their processes. Students can also start their own company, especially as a consultation business in implementing ICT solutions or work in the public sector in innovation policy or digitalisation. Student can also continue their studies at the doctoral level.

What will you get from this programme?

After completing the master's programme in Innovation and Technology, you:

• have a systemic overview of innovation theories and innovation policy;

• have deep knowledge in some field of research and application of innovation or technology management;

• are independently able to identify and formulate research questions in the field of innovation and technology management as well as find suitable methods to answer those;

• can collect, analyse and interpret data of a company from strategic and operational levels using appropriate methods and evaluation criteria to measure the productivity of the company;

• can use different methods to analyse company business processes to propose improvements and measure implementation efficiency;

• can do business with digital products and manage those;

• are familiar with developments in technology and have a positive attitude towards life-long learning;

• are collaborative, can communicate with different stakeholders, and can lead meetings and workshops.

Accreditation

Every seven years, all Estonian higher education institutions must undergo external evaluation – institutional accreditation. The latest assessment took place in 2022. The assessment council of the Estonian Quality Agency for Education decided to accredit the University of Tartu for the next seven years (2023-2029).