Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Eesti firma ZEV Motors tahab välja arendada Euroopa säästlikuima elektriauto ning müüa lähiaastatel Euroopas vähemalt 50-100 elektriautot. Nii-öelda e-autode massiline tulek on ZEVi fanaatiliste omanike Teet Randma ja Meelis Merilo arvates vaid aja küsimus. “Lähiaastatel on elektriautodega Eestis veel raske läbi murda, sest eestlasele on auto staatuse sümbol, mitte võimalikult ökonoomne liiklusvahend,” ütleb Randma. “Kuid [...]
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30 Dec 2009An Estonian company ZEV Motors is striving to develop one of the most efficient electric cars in Europe and to sell at least 50-100 of them in Europe over the next couple of years. The arrival of the so-called “e-cars” is only a matter [...]
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29 Dec 2009Tartu tehnoloogiapargis tegutseb Baltimaade pädevaim Apple’i ja Androidi platvormi teenuste arendaja Indilo Wireless. Ettevõtte juht Elver Loho väidab, et üleilmseid kultusvidinaid iPhone kasutab Eestis juba üle 30 000 inimese ja see number muudkui kasvab. Maailmas loetakse neid kokku juba üle 40 miljoni. Uuemate nutitelefonide puhul pole helistamine ammu enam põhiline funktsioon. Telefon on aina rohkem [...]
EADS Astrium is an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), dedicated to providing civil and defence space systems and services. In 2008, the company had a turnover of 4.3 billion euros and 15,000 employees in Europe. In November 2009, after Estonia had signed European Cooperating State Agreement with ESA, representatives from EADS [...]
The biotechnology company EGeen, which mostly carries out clinical trials in Central and Eastern Europe, has demonstrated stable growth. CEO Kalev Kask (pictured) says in the interview that nowadays pharmaceutical industry has made progress and most illnesses are at least to an extent treatable [...]
I decided to dig more deeper into Estonian biotech research and examined how Estonian R&D companies come together and joined their capabilities in the Competence Centre for Cancer Research, which was founded in 2005. Today the consortium includes 12 partners: Tallinn University of Technology, Protobios, Celecure, Kevelt, InBio, Cambrex Tallinn, TFS Trial Form Support, North Estonia Medical Centre, [...]
At first sight, it seems that the Estonian chemical and biotechnology sector is experiencing obvious growth problems. Estonia is a small country, with just 1.3 million inhabitants, and hence there is probably a lack of bright chemists and biologists and, due to its young age, the state’s experience in sales, marketing and entrepreneurship is not [...]
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3 Dec 2009After years of scientific work an Estonian biotech Solis Biodyne has successfully solved one of the main problems US multi-billionaire Bill Gates (pictured) and his wife Melinda Gates have in their mission against HIV/AIDS spread in Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to fight against HIV, Malaria [...]
Estonia has about 11 months to find space technology related business and science projects worth at least EUR 1 million. That was the deal when Estonia signed PECS (Plan for European Cooperating State) agreement with European Space Agency (ESA) about three weeks ago. Estonia aims to become a full member of ESA by 2016, but [...]