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<title>Development Fund envisions in a new report the future of Estonia-India economic relations</title>
<description>30.05.2012 - Estonian Development Fund has published a foresight report titled “Estonia-India: The future of relations”. The report follows a yearlong foresight project to present opportunities for advancing mutual business and economic cooperation between the two countries. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/press/news2212/</link>
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<title>Postimees: India offers the next train for Estonia to jump on </title>
<description>17.01.2012 - When Estonian businesspeople look towards Asia, they usually think first of China. However, that country has many suitors and there is little interest in newcomers; there are better hopes for Estonian companies in India. When Estonian businesspeople look towards Asia, they usually think first of China.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news2126/</link>
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<title>FinEst Startup Development Programme to encourage entrepreneurship in Estonia and Southern-Finland </title>
<description>13.10.2011 - Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013 project „FIN-EST start-up development programme“.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news2062/</link>
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<title>Estonian Development Fund sparks discussion of Estonia’s future relations with Asia</title>
<description>06.10.2011 - Discussion paper is now open for global consultation.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/press/news2055/</link>
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<title>A good time to change the league</title>
<description>23.09.2011 - Ott Pärna, CEO of the Estonian Development Fund, writes that Estonia is in a sufficiently good state to break free from the role of Scandinavia’s small brother.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/press/news2069/</link>
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<title>FinanceEstonia hakkab edendama finantsteenuste eksporti</title>
<description>20.06.2011 - Arengufondi seirest kasvas välja avaliku – ja erasektori huve ühendav koostööprojekt FinanceEstonia.  Selle eesmärgiks on edendada finantsteenuste, sellega seotud tugiteenuste ja tehnoloogiate eksporti.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1992/</link>
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<title>Mechanical Engineering Marketplace GrabCAD Raises $1.1M</title>
<description>09.06.2011 - Our portfolio company rised next round seed funding from Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture, Next View Ventures and business angels. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1981/</link>
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<title>Arengufond investeerib väike-tuulegeneraatorite arendajasse my!WIND</title>
<description>22.03.2011 - Arengufond ja kaasinvestor Sibo Invest OÜ tegid väiketarbijaile mõeldud tuulegeneraatorite arendajasse my!WIND OÜ-sse seemneinvesteeringu 34000 EUR. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1936/</link>
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<title>The Estonian Development Fund calls on entrepreneurs, decision-makers and universities to discover business opportunities in India</title>
<description>03.03.2011 -  The Development Fund and the Embassy of India in Helsinki have launched a background study to find out Estonian-Indian business opportunities and develop a contact network that could facilitate further cooperation between public and private organizations of the two countries.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1919/</link>
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<title>Development Fund invests in the mobile payment solution business</title>
<description>08.02.2011 - Development Fund together with private co-investors invest 1.5 million EUR in the Estonian firm NOW! Innovations Ltd., which develops mobile payment solutions.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1905/</link>
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<title>Ketels: Government should stand for executing the vision!</title>
<description>16.12.2010 - In his interview to Jan Jõgis-Laats, professor Christian Ketels from HBS explains how states can find their competitive edge and what should Estonia do in order not to remain a low-cost location for other nations. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1874/</link>
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<title>Modesat raised EUR 1,85M in second round funding</title>
<description>12.12.2010 - ASI, Estonian Development Fund and Bellus invested altogether 1,85 million Euros into Modesat Communications.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1872/</link>
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<title>Development Fund invests in biotechnology firm</title>
<description>04.11.2010 - Development Fund invests circa 5,5 million EEK in Estonian firm Cellin Technologies which develops stem cell cultivation technology. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1835/</link>
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<title>The export of health care services as one cure for Estonian economy</title>
<description>07.10.2010 - The export of health care services could become one of  the fields of new growth of Estonian economy. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1799/</link>
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<title>Estonian growth opportunities in healthcare services</title>
<description>07.10.2010 - Summary of the study “Healthcare services 2018” which is part of a wider foresight project on Estonia’s service economy and export opportunities.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1875/</link>
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<title>Fits.me, Virtual Fitting Room Closes €1.3 Million Second Round Funding</title>
<description>23.09.2010 - Fits.me, the innovative biorobotics and virtual fitting room company has closed a second round of financing of €1.3 million Euros in an investment led by the Estonian Development Fund. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1788/</link>
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<title>Lithuanian ‘czar of investments’ serving states competitiveness. </title>
<description>15.09.2010 - Kitty Kubo: The Prime Minister of Lithuania is acting like 'investmens czar', supportinig in words and deeds the acquirement of foreign investments into the state. Lithuania's trump cards are similar to Estonia's and hence we are direct rivals for the investments. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1781/</link>
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<title>Ott Pärna in Postimees: Of Future Goals Without Stress</title>
<description>15.09.2010 - The article is based on the Development Fund's yearly report to Parliament &quot;Edasi!&quot; 2009/2010. In the center of attention are growth vision, growth fields, capital, education and management. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1787/</link>
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<title>BiotaP opens the Lab for environment monitoring unique in Europe</title>
<description>09.09.2010 - A portfolio enterprise of Development Fund, opened an experimental lab for metagenomoc analysis.Project is co-financed by European Regional Development Fund.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1771/</link>
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<title>WEF: Estonia is the leader of new EU memberstates by the competitevenes ability</title>
<description>09.09.2010 - WEF: Estonia is the leader of new EU memberstates by the competitevenes ability. In general list Estonia ranks 33. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1773/</link>
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<title>Development Fund steps in with investment in earlier phase than before</title>
<description>01.09.2010 - Development Fund invests in emerging enterprises Sportlyzer and Inner Circle in total 3 million EEK (Estonian kroon).  
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<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1758/</link>
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<title>With information technology support towards pupil-centered school</title>
<description>30.08.2010 - The report on usage of ICT in education, presented today by the Development Fund, presents a road map enabling Estonia to reform education system from class-centered into pupil-centered style. To get the change moving on one hand the leader must be found both in state and in schools and on the other hand the initiatives coming from teachers and pupils must be supported.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1753/</link>
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<title>Fits.me – robot-helper for online shoppers</title>
<description>03.08.2010 - Estonian Fits.me robotic torso ready to help men to shop for clothes online.   </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1719/</link>
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<title>GrabCAD  secured funding for it’s open source 3D library and CAD marketplace.</title>
<description>03.08.2010 - GrabCAD got 256K from Estonian Development Fund and AsterBaltic for creating 3D library for engineers to share models and marketplace for trading them.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1720/</link>
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<title>Itella bought the sucessfully launched network  of SmartPOST, a portfolio enterprise of Development Fund </title>
<description>09.07.2010 - The sale of SmartPOST's Estonian network helps the advance of the technology of parcel terminals to abroad. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1718/</link>
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<title>Ott Pärna: Estonia 2018 - Globally Competitive, Locally Attractive</title>
<description>14.06.2010 - With the economic crisis today we face questions - to where from here, and how? A vision of a country is not just an adjective or sentence describing the future that anyone could shout out in their sleep. It is more of an inspiring and meaningful picture of the future, widely felt in the society. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1706/</link>
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<title>Fits.me in FT.com: Small country, big on enterprise</title>
<description>22.05.2010 - About portfolio company Massi Miliano co-founder Heikki Haldre:  He Like all Estonians, he understands that small is beautiful . . . and leverage is everything.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1688/</link>
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<title>HEI cover story: Future scenarios put color around the data</title>
<description>11.05.2010 - HEI May 2010: Nick Turner, CEO of consulting company Global Business Network that is helping the Estonian Development Fund to compile the Estonian Growth Vision, talked to HEI, how and why should you look into future.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1685/</link>
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<title>Mikko Kosonen: Finland is being threatened by Greek’s fate in five years</title>
<description>08.05.2010 - Interview with the President of the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA about growth possibilities of Finland and SITRAs search for the Wellsprings of Finnish Vitality.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1696/</link>
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<title>Garage48 - Don´t talk, just execute</title>
<description>21.04.2010 - The event, which took place at Estonian IT College last weekend, involved 100 developers with varying startup experience.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/investment/news1643/</link>
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<title>Ott Pärna: X - VIEW: Making Estonia the most user-friendly Internet country</title>
<description>17.12.2009 - The CEO of Estonian Development Fund, Ott Pärna,made a proposal to make Estonia the world's  most user-friendly Internet country.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/about/team/personal/ideas/news1714/</link>
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<title>Let's Break the European Paradox With von Baer University</title>
<description>13.11.2009 - </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/about/team/personal/ideas/news1705/</link>
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<title>Rolling Estonians Return</title>
<description>06.10.2009 - Ott Pärna, CEO: In order to move forward, we need a Big Plan. Let's make it together!</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1498/</link>
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<title>Postimees: Enjoy school, Lola!</title>
<description>01.09.2009 - </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/about/team/personal/ideas/news1709/</link>
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<title>Cooperation agreement </title>
<description>Four university rectors, the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications and the Estonian Development Fund in the cooperation agreement &quot;Estonian IT academy&quot;. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1468/</link>
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<title>Vitsur: We overdramatize euro</title>
<description>25.08.2009 - So far it’s not even known whether we met Maastricht criteria last year, not mentioning this year, Heido Vitsur, an economy expert at the Estonian Development Fund told ERR News.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1456/</link>
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<title>Fortumo enters Spain, France and Portugal</title>
<description>13.08.2009 - TigerBriefs: Estonian start-up Fortumo, that offers possibilities to create your own mobile service in 5 minutes and earn money with it, is expanding rapidly.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1440/</link>
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<title>Raintree faced bad luck with Schwarzennegger, new big chance ahead with Obama (VIDEO)</title>
<description>12.08.2009 - Estonian e-health software developer Raintree is anticipating what will be the outcome of Barack Obama’s plan to invest 17 billion dollars into electronic health information technology and records under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1437/</link>
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<title>iCom TV opened TV channel in Swedbank</title>
<description>12.08.2009 - TigerBriefs: Estonian start-up iComTV has launched it’s next Out-Of-Home (OOH) Media solution – iN-Store TV.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1439/</link>
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<title>Morningstar launches website for investors in Estonia</title>
<description>11.08.2009 - Morningstar, Inc. aprovider of independent investment research, today launched a new Web site to bring free investment funddata and analysis to investors in Estonia, the company announced.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1436/</link>
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<title>Smartdust puts smartness into sensor nets, says the business is growing</title>
<description>10.08.2009 - Last week I talk to the founders of Smartdust Solutions - an Estonian technology company that specializes in wireless sensor networks.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1435/</link>
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<title>Edicy Turns One And Celebrates With 85k Sites</title>
<description>10.08.2009 - Edicy, the Estonian startup that enables people to create their own websites without knowing any technical issues affiliated with website design. </description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1442/</link>
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<title>Start-up subsidies for new enterprises in Estonia to be increased to 100 thsd kroons</title>
<description>The minister of economic affairs and communications of Estonia Juhan Parts signed the regulation that will increase the amount paid as subsidies for start-up and growing enterprises, expending the range of activities to be supported and expenses eligible for aid and will decrease the amount of own financing required, writes Postimees Online/LETA.
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<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1420/</link>
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<title>Why did they appeal to Estonian Development Fund for a VC investment?</title>
<description>04.08.2009 - Why have companies choose the Estonian Development Fund for a VC investment?</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1423/</link>
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<title>Mangaforme.com draws a Japanese cartoon star of you</title>
<description>03.08.2009 - Not too long ago I wrote a post about an entertaining Estonian start-up called Pledgehammer.com. Now there’s another amusing project called Mangaforme.com.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1422/</link>
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<title>Enterprise Estonia supports technology investments with EUR 20 mln</title>
<description>23.07.2009 - The Enterprise Estonia Foundation gave 315 million kroons (EUR 20 mln) support to technology investments of 39 industrial companies.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1438/</link>
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<title>Enterprise Estonia invested 2.5 bln kroons into new projects in six months</title>
<description>20.07.2009 - In the first half of 2009, the foundation Enterprise Estonia has supported new products for a total of 2.54 billion kroons, writes Äripäev.ee/LETA.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1418/</link>
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<title>From a Baltic Point of View</title>
<description>15.07.2009 - When Kitty Kubo first heard about the Baltic Sea Strategy, she was sceptical as to its value.
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<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/foresight/news1455/</link>
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<title>European Commission approved of Estonia’s State aid plan of 500 thsd euros</title>
<description>14.07.2009 - The European Commission approved of the plan of Estonia to temporarily grant aid of up to 500,000 euros for supporting the economy, writes Postimees Online/LETA.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1400/</link>
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<title>No debt Estonia will bounce faster, says Oxford</title>
<description>13.07.2009 - Estonia should be a prime focus for emerging market investors for 2009, says Hadley Barrett, CEO of Oxford Sustainable Group.</description>
<link>http://www.arengufond.ee/eng/news/media/news1399/</link>
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