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How Can Small Countries Use Clusters to Compete on Global Level - The Case of Estonian Smart City Lab Cluster Initiative Rene Tõnnisson
Parallel 2.1 Clusters as a tool to create global innovation winners and increase competitiveness
11 November 2014
HOW CAN SMALL COUNTRIES USE CLUSTERS TO COMPETE ON GLOBAL LEVEL - THE CASE OF
ESTONIAN SMART CITY LAB CLUSTER INITIATIVERENE TÕNNISSON
SMART CITY LAB, TARTU, ESTONIA
Tartu.
My Cluster Background
Practical hands on
experiences gained from
management of Smart
City Lab – and Estonian
ICT cluster initiative
Cluster policy experience
gained from European
Cluster Policy Group
(ECPG) – an Advisory
Expert Panel to European
Commission
Johannes Pääsuke,
Estonian National Museum
Country where people pay taxes
with smile thanks to ICT• Majority of people
paying taxes over
internet - completing
the tax declaration
takes 5 minutes
• Setting up a company
over internet takes 10
minutes
• Free Wifi Internet
access in public
places as “human
right”
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
Paradox of Estonian Innovation System
• In spite of some IT solutions, which are world
leading Estonian IT companies have still failed
to transfer them on larger scale to other markets
• Success in innovation does not lie in technical
excellence and solutions but more often in
cooperation networks and partnerships
THE SMALL COUNTRY CHALLENGE AND HOW
CLUSTER INITIATIVES HELP TO SOLVE IT
• Estonian National Cluster Programme has the
main focus on stimulating and supporting
Export and Internationalisation
• What companies cannot achieve alone - they
can do jointly by coordinated actions and
building a critical mass!
Cluster for smart e- and m-city
solutions
SMART CITY LAB
AS TRIPLE HELIX CLUSTER
ICT companies
Universities and
Research Institutes
Cities and Regions
Innovation Agencies
Infrastructure
companies
SCL MAIN ACTIVITY AREAS
• Joint Marketing in terms of organising targeted
trade mission and participation in trade shows
• Internationalisation in terms of cooperating
with other clusters in Europe and elsewhere
• Product development in terms of using Living
Lab platform
• New business stimulation in terms of Focused
accelerator programmes
Clusters can help companies not only with
innovation and product development…
... but also to see the opportunities and
threats on a larger scale and help
companies to better address them!
Thank you!
Contact Information:Rene Tõnnisson
Smart City Lab, Tartu, EstoniaEmail: [email protected]: +372-5029873