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TheRole of an Entrepreneurial Mindset inDigital Transformation- Case Study of the EstonianBusiness School Mari Kooskora Abstract This chapter focuses on entrepreneurial mindset in digital transformation and presents a short case study about leading the digital transformation in one Estonianprivatebusiness school,where theongoingdigital processhas changed the organisation itself and also theways howstudents are taught and trained for coping and leading in thedigitalworld. Inorder tobetter understand the context andenvironment, abrief introduction to thedigitalisation topicandslightlymore detailed overview of digitalising in higher education sector is provided first. 1 Introduction We can argue that among different transformations taken place within entrepre- neurial activities, there has been a major shift to digitalisation that has rapidly intensified especially during the last decade.Different authors have conceptualised and described digitalisation in different ways, but they all have agreed that digi- talisation has and still is one of themajor transformations which has changed the ways howwork andbusiness are done and that affects basically everything around us. Today digitalisation and the need for digitally savvy people is present every- where. This also applies to the universities, both as organisations and as teaching institutions.Universities need to transform themselves to becomemore digital and they also need to help their students to cope and lead these digitalisation processes within their own organisations. Estonia is a country that is known for its digital M.Kooskora (&) Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia e-mail: mari.kooskora@ebs.ee ©TheAuthor(s) 2021 M.Soltanifar et al. (eds.),DigitalEntrepreneurship, FutureofBusiness andFinance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53914-6_8 143