Praxis koostöös Balti Uuringute Instituudi ja Technopolis Group Belgiaga teostab Haridus- ja Teadusministeeriumile EL struktuurivahenditest toetatud teadus- ja arendustegevuse ning innovatsiooni ja kõrghariduse meetmete vahehindamist. Hindamise keskseteks küsimusteks on meetmete sobivus ja rakendatavus valdkondlike strateegiliste eesmärkide el...

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...

On 11 January 2010 Enterprise Estonia, acting as host organisation of the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Estonia – Latvia Programme 2007-­‐2013, invited interested parties to participate in a tender of the Contractor “Evaluation of the Estonia – Latvia Programme” and submit their offers. The evaluation of the Programme is to be carri...

IBS analüütikud Merit Tatar ning Kadri Uus viivad koostöös Poliitikauuringute Keskusega Praxis 2010. aastal ellu projekti „Valitsusasutuste kaasamispraktikate analüüs“, mille raames analüüsitakse põhjalikult ministeeriumide kaasamispraktikaid aastatel 2007-2010, töötatakse välja sobiv metoodika sarnaste hindamiste jätkamiseks tulev...

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...

Projekti eesmärgiks on anda hinnang, kas Struktuurifondide meetmete tingimustes määratletud kriteeriumid võimaldavad valida projekte, mis panustavad rakenduskavades sätestatud eesmärkide saavutamisse parimal moel, ning kas need kriteeriumid võimaldavad liikuda eesmärkide saavutamise suunas võimalikult kiiresti ja tähtsustavad projektide j...

The aim of the project is to analyse and evaluate intensively participation practices in nine Estonian ministries during 2007-2009, prepare methodology and framework for similar evaluations in the future and propose suitable policy recommendations for improving the participative culture in public sector in forming publically important legal acts an...

The aim of this mid-term evaluation is to carry out a thorough analysis of Estonian National Strategic Framework of Structural Funds and its Operational Plans in the light of assessing the relevance of the set objectives and selection criteria for projects. The project is carried out in consortium with Ernst & Young Baltic and Policy Research C...

The Impact of the European Union Regional Policy on Sub-National Mobilisation in a Unitary State: The Case of Estonia Understanding and Shaping Regions: Spatial, Social and Economic Futures (RSA Annual Conference) Merit Tatar, konverentsiettekanne (2009) Vaata  

Struktuurivahendite rakenduskava hindamine Uuringuaruanne, juuli 2009 Download   LÜHIKOKKUVÕTE Käesolev aruanne võtab kokku aprillist kuni juulini 2009. aastal läbi viidud struktuurivahendite rakenduskavade hindamise, mille eesmärgiks oli välja selgitada, kuivõrd hästi on rakenduskavades  kavandatud struktuurivahend...

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...

  Technology-Intensive FDI and Economic Development in A Small Country – The Case of Estonia Marek Tiits (2007) Download   Abstract. This article reviews the role of foreign direct investment in industrialisation of various catching-up economies and draws based on this lessons for policy-making in small countries. The author states th...

The Nation of Merchants Marek Tiits (editor) This book is currently available only in Estonian.  English version is forthcoming in 2008. Estonian version: Kaupmeeste riik Introduction Favourable geographic location in the neighbourhood of Nordic countries, radical reforms of the early 1990s, relatively low produc...

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 promotion of regional and social cohesion as well as of environmental protection and sustainability are among the most important Community objectives. Project REGIONET will contribute knowledge that helps to better integrate environmental issues in regional development plans and management (also now needed for Structural Fund...