To E or not to E? Estonian answer is - TO E!

To E or not to E? Estonian answer is - TO E!

Brief glance to Estonian hight-tech profile and information society

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Estonia: integrating into Northern

Europe

75% of FDI 45% of trade

– 80% with EU

Clusters & Linkages• Timber • Engineering• Electronics• Financial services• Telecom

Estonia: a Great Test Market for New Technologies

well-educated population; willing to adopt new technologies; availability of high quality broadband

infrastructure; close to two TOP hubs in digital engineering

1) Stockholm-Kista (Wireless Valley), Sweden;2) Helsinki, Finland;

attractive operational costs –

Information society indicators

Mobile phones penetration - 98% Home PC penetration - 76% Home Internet penetration - 58% Business Online - 92% Schools Online - 100% Government Online - 100%

Achieved in 10 years with investment per capita 5 times below European average

E-readiness of economies

Source www.mcconnellinternational.com

Technology based

Employment based

Knowledge based

Vision on Estonia

CostExpensivemediumCheap

ESTONIA ?2020?

Sweden

Hungary Czhech

Russia

Latvia

China

Value added

ESTONIA

Finland

Forming e-generation - Tiger Leap Initiated in 1996 with aim to connect all

schools with Internet and e-learning All school graduates in Estonia are fluent in IT

and Internet since 2000 Changed radically education landscape Experience and model transferred to number

of countries, eg. Georgia, Mozambique, Albania, Bulgaria

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Role of ICT in the success of Estonia

Large-scale ICT-related initiatives have found a fertile ground in Estonian society

Results from these projects have shaped the society ...and the demand cycle starts again

How this cycle was ignited?– “Generation shift” among decisionmakers, new opinion

leaders – Easy acceptance of new technologies among population– No legacy systems, modern communication

infrastructure

Knowledge–based Estonia Estonian Strategy for Research & Development 2002-2006 & 2007-2013

Objectives– Updating the knowledge pool– Increasing the competitiveness of enterprises

Three key areas– User friendly information technologies

to ensure access to information and opportunities for its use in everyday life for everyone and to encourage the development of IT applications in enterprises

– Biomedicine to encourage the unification of clinical medicine and molecular

biology research and to develop enterprises in the biotech field– Material technologies

To encourage the use of new materials and equipment, and the development of related applied research and enterprise based on materials technologies.

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E-Business climate

All banks are e-banks– 98% of all transactions are made over Internet

All tax and customs duties in Internet– E-tax declaration since 1998, average time per private

declaration 3 minutes

– All business and customs relations online asince 2002

All communication with government online - e-mail and electronic documents are valid even for court

Product Development and services in ICT cluster

JOT Automation (FIN)– industrial robots

Elcoteq (FIN)– New Product Introduction

Center Ericsson (SWE)

– 3G software Aqris Software (SWI)

– Software based on Java technology

Artec Design (EST)– Chip design and prototypes

Skype– P2P telephony software

FusionOne– Mobile applications

SEB IT Partners (SWE)– IT services for SEB banking

group IBM (USA)

– Help desk (server) for Finnsih/Swedish market

Hilton Reservations Worldwide (USA)– Call center– bookkeeping

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High-tech parks in Estonia

Location and partnerships with Estonian and international Universities and innovation support organizations

Expanding their portfolio of activities from 2003 into new

Most high-tech spin-offs born in 2 high-tech parks

Tartu University Institute of Technology

Material and Chemical Technology– Synthesis of acetogenin analogs, antibacterial and antiviral agents

Biomedical Technology– Antibiotics, Environmental Microbiology, Virology

Environmental Technology Information Technology

Spin-offs in fields of probiotic bacteria development for food industry, gene technology and non-invasive medical diagnostics

Tallinn Technology Park - TEHNOPOL

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Innovation incubator and support services facilitator

Closely connected with Tallinn technical University and biggest research labs in Estonia

Skype - developed in Estonia

Free Internet Telephony Over 500 million

downloads Development Team based

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National ID-card - secure e-infrastructure

Started in 1999, launched in April 2002 ID card is a primary identification document Carries digital signature 60 000 cards issued in 6 months, reached highest

penetration worldwide in 2005, over 900.000 cards issued (population 1,4 million)

Mobile phone based services

Mobile parking since 2000– Over 50% of parking revenue made with phones

Mobile positioning since 2000– The first positioning project for society (E112)– By today tens of mobile positioning services

M-payments- SIM cards are connected to debit cards

Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet, United Nations and former UNDP Administrator

“If Internet would reborn as a country we would call it Estonia”

Enterprise Estoniawww.eas.ee

Largest state institution providingassistance to companies in Estonia

Foreign Representations: St.Petersburg, Moscow, Hamburg,Helsinki, London, Stockholm

Implementing agency for the EU Structural Funds in Estonia business and regional

developmentsupport programmes)

Business support services

– FDI & Trade promotionwww.investinestonia.com

– Tourism promotionwww.visitestonia.com

– Financial Support Programs: Start-up Infrastructure development Employee training R&D Tourism development Business Consultation

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