FIDELITY is a multi-disciplinary initiative which will analyse shortcomings and vulnerabilities in the whole ePassports life cycle and develop technical solutions and recommendations to overcome them. FIDELITY will demonstrate privacy enhanced solutions to: Secure issuing processes: authentication of documents, preventing impersona...

Evaluation of the EUs structural funds on the fields of innovation, higher education, research and development is being conducted by Praxis in cooperation with Institute of Baltic Studies and Technopolis Group Belgium. Evaluation is ordered by the Ministry of Education and Research. The aim of the evaluation is to measure the effectiveness and comp...

As part of the project „Estonian ICT Cluster" it was necessary to conduct research on the use of ICT solutions. Research was conducted using case studies, and its objectives were to map the experiences of those solutions by the clients and the positive effects generated by these solutions. Research revealed that clients don´t usually evaluate ...

Aims of project To promote new innovative high growth firms e.g. “gazelles” by encouraging entrepreneurial creativity, providing needed support and evaluating needs for early stage risk finance. Project aims to solve identified common for partner regions (Kurzeme, Riga and South Estonia) market failure to release innovative spinouts from regi...

The idea with the Ballad project is to open up the markets around Central Baltic Sea Region for Digital Service by developing living labs methods to support SMEs. The SMEs have digital services for a local market and by using the methods developed in the project the services can be transferred over to a market in a participating country. It shows...

Project EGOPRISE ("E-GOvernment solutions as instruments to qualify the public sector for the specific needs of small and medium sized enterPRISEs (SMEs) in the rural BSR") aims to turn public administrations in rural BSR areas to more business oriented service suppliers, to relieve SMEs from administrative burdens, improve their access to informat...

ICT RTD Technological Audit Estonia DG INFSO (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/index_en.htm) carries out a Technological Audit on information and communication technologies (ICT) research capabilities in each of the EU 12 states in order to identify a number of elements that include: -  The ICT RTD policy environment and...

Enabling Better RTDI policy-making in Europe's Region Strategic Policy Intelligence Tools - A Guide 2008   Download

Banská Bystrica Regional Innovation Strategy (Slovakia)  

Foresight pilots in ICT and biotech futures for Estonia

Creative Destruction Management in the Baltic Sea Region (with Praxis)

Galilee Regional Innovation Strategy (Israel)

Industrial Restructuring in the NIS: experience of and lessons from the new EU Member States

INGINEUS (Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their INteraction with EU Strategies, 2009-2011) is a research project sponsored by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. The project addresses the impact of globalisation and the rapid growth of selected emerging economies in the world on the competitiveness and...

Supporting Policy Making with innovative assessment tools Support to mutual learning and coordination in research policy making (RTDOMCNET), 2009 Download   Introduction The importance of science and technology for socio-economic development is widely acknowledged and has become a core field of activity for policy makers in many countrie...

The RegStrat Guide to Strategic Policy Intelligence Tools EU-project RegStrat - Strategic Policy Intelligence Tools for Better S&T Investment Strategies in Europe's Regions (2008) Download   In a rapidly changing and complex socio-economic-political environment, decision-makers need to address the challenges of competitiveness, a...

Peer-reviewing European Good Practices in Innovation Promotion for SME EUROPEER SME (2008) Download   Preface The EUROPEER SME project in the European context The Lisbon Strategy, decided by the EU Heads of States and Governments in March 2000, sets out to make the EU “the most competitive and dynamic knowledgedriven economy by 2010”. ...

Report on the benchmarking process for regional innovation strategies and policies EURO-COOP (Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and Benchmarking Process: Cooperation for Sustainable Regional Innovation), 2008 Download   Introduction EURO-COOP is one of eight projects which are funded under the 6th Framework Programme for Researc...

Establishing a set of indicators for measuring the impact of R&D policies BEFORE (Benchmarking and foresight for regions of Europe), 2008 Download   This document is focused on the study of establishing a set of indicators for measuring the impact of R&D policies for the five regions participating in this project. This document has...

ICT Sector in Estonia: Foresight Study BEFORE (Benchmarking and foresight for regions of Europe), 2008   Download   Introduction The BEFORE Project (http://www.before-project.org) was approved in the FP6-2004-KNOW-REG-2 call for proposals of the 6th Framework Programme. The specifi c programme covered was “Integrating and Strengthenin...