Ander Izquierdo Ferran

1. Brief
Introduction

2. MTA in a Nutshell

3. • MTA is the Innovation and Team-Entrepreneurship unit of Mondragon
University - School of Business created in May 2008 in close co-
operation with TiimiAkatemia Jyvaskyla in Finland.
• In January 2015 there are more than 500 team-entrepreneurs taking
part in our programs, operating in 7 locations, creating an
international entrepreneurial community.
Mondragon Team Academy
“We are teampreneurs making
our dreams become true
learning and creating
together”

4. 5
WE ARE part of:
-Mondragon University - School of
Business S.Coop.
-M o n d r a g o n I n n o v a t i o n a n d
Knowledge, (MIK) S.Coop.
-MONDRAGON Corporation.
-Team Academy Internacional Learning
Network

5. Tiimiakatemia
JyväskyläProakatemia Tampere
Akatemia CIC ++
Team Factory Paris
Team Entrepreneur Angers
Team Academie Nederland
Team Academy Euskadi
Team Entrepreneur Strasbourg
Mondragon Team
Academy
Team Academy Debrecen
Team Academy Sao Paolo, Brazil
Team Academy Budapest,
starting September 2012
Tiimiakatemia® Learning Network
”We co-create teampreneurs”
Saimia, LappeenrantaNovia, Turku
Bisnes Akatemia, Salo
Turku AMK
On a process..
-TA Westminster
-TA Bristol
- TA North Humbria
- TA Madrid
- TA Buenos Aires
- TA Rio

6. TiimiAkatemia in a Nutshell
“Companies want
innovation but they
do not want
Innovators”
“Teampreneurship Is
a New International
Trend in Growth
Entrepreneurship”
Johannes Partanen

7. MONDRAGON Corporation in a Nutshell
• Is the largest
worker cooperative
corporation in the
world today.
• Might be the best
example of a social
enteprise in the
world today
(Macleod)
• Formed by 156
worker co-
operatives

8. MONDRAGON Corporation in a Nutshell
Industrial parks (2) Purchasing offices (5)

9. MONDRAGON Corporation in a Nutshell
“The world has not
beeing given to us to
contemplate it but to
transform it”
“Our strength is not
competition but
Cooperation”
JM Arizmendiarrieta

10. WHY MTA exist?
WHAT?
HOW?
WHY?
“We are teampreneurs making our dreams become true learning and
creating together”
REBIRTH the entrepreneurial
spirit and creating capacity of
MONDRAGON community.
CREATE an open and
international community of
team-entrepreneurship co-
operating on a multi-
generational, multi-cultural and
multi-disciplinar level.

11. HOW we do it?
WHAT?
HOW?
WHY?
“We develop Team Academy radical innovation in education: learning by
doing & Team learning”
Thanks to INNOVATIVE RADICAL
EDUCATION programs :
1) Creating young change-agents:
team-changemakers
2) Developing and implementing
entrepreneurial initiatives and
intra-preneurial projects in
MONDRAGON and in businesses
worldwide
3) Creating MTA LABS:
Entrepreneurial Teams Social
Innovation Ecosystems

12. WHAT do we do?
HOW?
WHY?
Organically developing LEARNING
AND ENTREPRENEURIAL
ECOSISTEMS:
- LEINN (2009-10)
- MINN (2010-11)
- EKINN (2011-12)
- MTA Team Mastery IBERIA
(2012-13)
- International LEINN nodes
(Madrid- Amsterdam) (2012-13)
- MTA Team Mastery ASIA
(2013-14)
- MTA LABS - Social Innovation
Ecosystems: HUB Madrid Team
HOW?
LEINN
MINN
EKINN
Team
Mastery
LEINN
internacional
WHAT?
The Golden Circle - Simon Sinek
MTA
LABS

13. MTA current learning programs
Oficial European Bachelour degree On Entrepereneurial Leadership & Innovation
Irun / Onati / Madrid / Amsterdam / Bilbao / Barcelona
International Master on Intrapreneurship & Open Innovation
Onati / Irun / Zaragoza / Bilbao / Shanghai / Pune / Amsterdam / San Francisco / Finland
Basic Entrepreneurial Innovator professional program
Ermua / Markina / Leioa / Bilbao
Team Coaches Trainers program to certify Mondragon Tiimi Akatemia
Methodology
Europe / Finland / Iberia / UK / Brazil / Asia
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26+9
69
10
75
10
62
Entrepreneurs teams

14. - Title: Official European Bachellor Degree
- Profile: Young entrepreneurs (17-22)
- Lenght: 4 years
- Locations: Irun, Oñate, Madrid, Valencia,
Amsterdam, Bilbao & Barcelona.
- First official certificate on Entrepreneurship
and Innovation in Spain.
European Bachellor Degree on
Entrepreneurial Leadership and
Innovation

15. - Title: Executive Master
- Profile: Corporate Business and Innovation
Leaders
- Lenght: 18 months
- Locations: Irun, Oñate, Bilbao, Valencia,
Madrid, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Pune,
Querétaro, Barcelona.
- First Executive Master program on
Intrapreneurship in Europe.
In-company radical innovation thought
team intra-preneurship and open
innovation

16. - Title: Executive Master
- Profile: Unenployed people with
professional background
- Lenght: 12 months
- Locations: Ermua, Markina, Getxo-Leioa
and Sakana
- First entrepreneurship-learning
experience
Basic Program on Innovating Learning

17. - Title: Expert Course
- Profile: Innovation and
entrepreneurship leaders willing to be
certified as Team-Coaches by
TiimiAkatemia & MTA.
- Lenght: 18 months
- Locations: Iberia (Spain and Portugal)
and Asia (China, India, S. Korea and
Thailand)
MTA Team Mastery: IBERIA and ASIA

18. Key Learning Tools
MTA

19. Three principles of learning
1. A person him-/herself builds his/her own
knowledge (constructivism)
2. Knowledge is time-bound (”Just-in-time –
knowledge”)
3. Knowledge is social – communities and
cooperation

20. Theory & new
knowledge
Learning
contract
Cross-
fertilized
learning cells
Training
sessions with
your own team
Core elements
of the learning
process
”Front-wheel drive”
Theory, planning,
timeline
”Rear-wheel drive”
Dialogue, team-learning
By Jukka Hassinen, Partus Ltd.
Four-Wheel Drive of Learning

21. KEY ELEMENTS
1. Being entrepreneur in a team (Team-
preneurship)
2. Finnish education (Team Academy)
3. Real companies (Their own team
Cooperative)
4. International experience (Finland,
USA, China, India,…)
5. Passion and enthusiasm

22. Thank you