CLOE –

members

Internationalisation – an opportunity or

necessity?

Rene Tõnnisson

Baltic Innovation

Agency

20.April 2012,

Vienna, Austria

Tartu .

My Background

Practical hands on

experiences gained from

management of IT cluster

initiative in Mobile and

Location Based Service

International cooperation

experience from 50 EU

and bilateral projects

Cluster policy experience

gained from European

Cluster Policy Group

(ECPG)

Johannes Pääsuke,

Estonian National Museum

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

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

13% of European SMEs export

30% of US SMEs export

70% of Chinese SMEs export

Source: Enterprise Europe Network

How International are European

SMEs today?

If Europe wants to stay in the game then

internationalisation is needed on all levels

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

26/04/2012 Meeting's name

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

26/04/2012 Meeting's name

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

26/04/2012 Meeting's name

Intenationalisation can be often seen as an opportunity

... But it is more often than that a necessity!

Contact Information:

Rene Tõnnisson

Email: rene@bia.ee

Tel: +372-5029873