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...

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...

Globalization leads to greater challenges for Research and Technology Development (RTD) policies and for the competitiveness of technology oriented SMEs. However, regional innovation policy-making is in need of innovation itself: It has to be more dynamic and adaptive. This can be reached by integrating RTD issues more coherently into str...

The RegStrat-project, which ran from 2007 until March 2009, was based on an ambitious integrating approach harnessing synergies from various knowledge stocks regarding strategic policy intelligence (SPI) tools, at different governance levels, in different policy and policy research fields, and in different actor communities of Europe's regional, na...

Research and Technological Development is essential for the functioning and sustainability of the European economy and therefore in the center of EU’s development agenda. Special attention has been paid to the Small and Medium Enterprises. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are socially and economically important, since they represent 99 %...

The SUPER-SME project aims to contribute to the objective of raising the intensity of research expenditure and activity of enterprises in the participating regions through a mix of activities. This will be done in two main phases using a range of tools:   Phase 1: mapping S&T intermediation services and identifying gaps ...

This project was approved in the FP6-2004-KNOW-REG-2 call for proposals of the 6th Framework Programme. The specific programme covered was "Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area" and the activity areas included were "Coherent development of research and innovation policies". The project will perform the comparative analysis ...

The project SupPolicy aims at supporting the sub-national and national research and innovation policy actors by providing a methodology to translate the results produced by innovation assessing tools into concrete policy making decisions. The aim is also to improve the effectiveness of the policy-cycle in order to increase the impact of public inte...

'Networking INnovation actors in the medical device sector' 8.6% of GDP in Europe is spent on health, of which 6.4% is for medical technology. Although this expenditure delivers an exceptional return on investment, there is a need for continual innovation. Increasing patient treatment and operating costs mean that the commercial prospe...