Publications
| Internationally competitive universities: The focus of the report is on world-class universities and is based on a review of recent relevant literature and on the authors’ knowledge (Academic Cooperation Association) of and experience with the themes of higher education internationalisation and excellence in tertiary education. |
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| Policy Brief 6/2011 Estonian Growth Vision 2018: Goals and aspirations for the next decade. Summed up results of a yearlong process of national vision building. The Policy Brief contains 8 key vision choices upon which the future of the Estonian economy is most dependent and and steps towards change. |
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| Estonian growth opportunities in healthcare services Estonian Development Fund revealed in October 2010 a study “Healthcare services 2018” which is part of a wider foresight project on Estonia’s service economy initiated in 2008. The study analyses opportunities for Estonia’s export of health and wellness services in the next decade, outlines choices for strategy, and makes recommendations for action. |
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| Annual report to the Parliament 2010. In focus: Estonian Growth Vision; export opportunities in financial services and healthcare; the restructuring of the economy needs capital – FDI and venture capital; about roadmap “IT + Education” and IT Academy; governance and a new paradigm of economic policy. |
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| Policy Brief 4/2010 Financial Services 2018 concentrates on the conclusions of the foresight project "Financial Services 2018" conducted by the Development Fund: on Estonia's opportunities for exports of financial services and policy recommendations. Particular attention is given to a clarification of the concept of FinanceEstonia. |
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| Financial services sector in Estonia: Growth opportunities and policy implications Analysis conducted by the experts of our partner British financial services consultancy Oxera Consulting. The export opportunities of the Estonian financial sector are asset management and private banking services to the Central and Eastern European and the CIS markets, and performance of back office functions. |
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Policy Brief 3/2009 Industry Engines 2018: The growth potentiality of Estonian industry for the next decade. Short version of the Foresight Report of Manufacturing Industry, where the industry engines of tomorrow were identified: the industrial enterprises producing large additional value, which would form an internationally competitive ‘spear head’ and would carry the economic growth and development. Brings out three types of growth potentiality for existing industrial enterprises and gives policy advice for state support for advancing to the new growth fields. |
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Policy Brief 1/2009 Summary of the ICT Foresight's conclusions and policy Reccomendations. Main attention is on internationalisation of the higher education, master's programs in Technology and Business Administration with emphasis on IT, and roadmaps in the six focus areas identified in the EST_IT@2018 foresight exercise. |
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Estonian Focus no. 1 2008 What are the actual Estonian economic outlooks? By what does Estonia differ from rich and successful countries? These topics are dealt with in the report “The Estonian Economy Current Status of Competitiveness and Future Outlooks” written by researchers from the University of Tartu. |
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| Foresight: The Development Fund conducts foresight exercises |
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| Venture Capital: how to do business together with the Estonian Development Fund |
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The Development Fund vision and mission and the start of the idea. |
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