1. CLOE –
Rene Tõnnisson
Baltic Innovation members
Agency
20.April 2012,
Vienna, Austria
Internationalisation – an opportunity or
necessity?
2. My Background
Practical hands on
experiences gained from
management of IT cluster
initiative in Mobile and
Location Based Service
International cooperation
.Tartu
experience from 50 EU
and bilateral projects
Cluster policy experience
gained from European
Cluster Policy Group
(ECPG)
5. Leading country on e-Governance
and e-Services
• Government internal
working procedures and
Meetings without papers
• First country to allow
National Parliamentary
elections over Internet in
2007, European Parliament
elections in 2009 and m-
Elections in 2011
• Setting up a new company
over internet takes 15
minutes
• Currently discussed
replacing all textbooks in
schools with iPads
6. Main Challenges
• In spite of some IT solutions, which are world
leading Estonian IT companies have still failed
to sell them internationally
• The true success does not lie in technical
excellence but rather in access to international
cooperation networks and sales channels
7. How International are European
SMEs today? 70% of Chinese
SMEs export
30% of US
SMEs export
13% of European
SMEs export
Source: Enterprise Europe Network
8. If Europe wants to stay in the game then
internationalisation is needed on all levels
9. TERM – Linking European regional research clusters in the
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine field
FP7 Region of Knowledge
supported European
cooperation project between
the following regions:
• Pay de la Loire (Nantes), FR
• Stockholm – Uppsala, SE
• Madrid, ES
• Milano, IT
• Berlin, Brandenburg, DE
• Göteborg – Oslo, SE-NO
• Wallonia, BE
• Tartu, EE
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10. TERM – Linking European regional research clusters in the
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative field
What is in it for the region?
• As part of the joint action plan, a call for
interregional projects will be organised offering
possibilities of funding for projects in the TERM
field.
• Common sets of goals throughout Europe thanks
to a European strategy.
• Contributing to the creation of a world-class
meta cluster
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11. TERM – Linking European regional research clusters in the
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine field
Main goals and activities
• Mapping the TERM stakeholders in each
partner’s region
• Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each
region (SWOT analysis)
• Setting up a regional research agenda
• Identifying a list of common priorities
• Combining them to prepare a common research
agenda and then a joint action plan
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