Estonia
The Technopolis Group office in Estonia opened in August 2006. Before that date Technopolis had provided advice for national policy-making and implementing agencies in Estonia and the Baltic region since the late 1990s.
The Tallinn office is currently staffed by a team of two permanent consultants, Dr Katrin Männik (head of office) and Ruta Rannala. They combine experience from different professional backgrounds. These cover various institutions: the academic (the University of Tartu, the Tallinn University of Technology, the University of Sussex): government (the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications) and policy implementing offices (Enterprise Estonia). The experience also ranges across a number of policy fields: research and innovation, entrepreneurship, metrology, accreditation, standardisation and conformity assessment; as well as international business and consultancy practice.
The office is supported by Alasdair Reid, director of Technopolis Belgium. Alasdair has long experience of working in Estonia, in particular, and central and Eastern Europe, in general. The team will shortly be reinforced by Rurik Holmberg, who is currently with our Swedish office. Rurik has completed a PhD researching technological lock-in in energy systems studying the oil shale sector in Estonia. The energy field offers potential for future policy work in research and investment in sustainable and secure energy systems.
The staff of the office can work fluently in Estonian, Russian, English, Swedish and Finnish. In the Baltic region we work with a number of experts and partner organisations in Latvia and Lithuania to complement in-house skills and expertise.
The Tallinn Office specialises in research, innovation and entrepreneurship policy advice in the Baltic Sea area for national and European authorities. It is involved in comparative policy research such as PROINNO Europe, Europe Innova and ERAWATCH as well as in policy design and evaluation studies. The office participated in the InnoPolicy Trendchart and Sectoral Innovation Watch projects and analysed the EU’s Structural Funds’ support for innovation and knowledge.
Technopolis Estonia completed, in early 2008, a feasibility study for a technology investment support programme for the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication. It is currently participating in the mid-term evaluation of the Competence Centres programme in Estonia. In all these projects the office can call on the Technopolis Group, which is to be able to bring together contributions from across Europe. The Tallinn office also uses links with the Technopolis office in Stockholm to facilitate involvement on Baltic-Nordic research, innovation and economic development issues.
Technopolis Estonia contributes to policy debate and exchange on future development in the region by active participation in Baltic events. It organises a series of regular Baltic Idea Exchange seminars, at which discussions around topics relevant to policy development in science, technology and innovation field take place. Policy-makers and others active in fields such as education, environment, social affairs, cultural affairs or defence join these informal but thought-provoking ‘breakfast meetings’.
Our office is at Harju Street in Tallinn. It is attractively situated near the Old Town in a building that embodies the history of the ancient Hanseatic town, close to the 14th century Town Wall and the Harju Gates.
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Tallinn [Estonia]
Estonian office
Harju 6 - 411
10130 Tallinn
Estonia
T:+37 2 631 0525
F:+37 2 631 0525
info.ee@technopolis-
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