Estonian technology stories
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 [...]
When someone asks about the most successful Estonian Internet business, the answer would probably be Skype, with over 400 million subscribers. But how about start-ups? Fortumo, Edicy and UDC stand out as most promising ones. Let’s take a look at these companies and compare them in a subjective way.
Few weeks ago Estonian entrepreneurs and public administration members visited Italy, where European Space Agency’s (ESA) earth observation center collects hundreds of gigabytes of satellite information daily. ESRIN is one of the establishments of ESA. It is located in Frascatti, Italy in center site area of 80 000 square meters and its primary tasks are [...]
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23 Nov 2009Estonian tech undertaking T+1 Solutions, belonging to an entrepreneur Raoul Järvis, prepares for the European launch of its new taxi ordering service Taxipal. The company promises to make it available during this year in several countries. All details regarding the launch will be disclosed later on. Taxipal (former Taxi4me) software solution has triumphed in this [...]
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18 Nov 2009How to survive as a European manufacturer in the modern globalized world? How to survive if your competition is in China producing thousands of items and paying very little salaries and not caring too much for the environment? Is there any chance for the expensive and highly taxed Europeans? According to Scarfmaker there is! The [...]
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18 Nov 2009One of the key sources of innovation is the collaboration of different disciplines. For example when biology and physics met the science of biophysics was created. The introduction of IT has brought many benefits in many different industry sectors. Primefish Solutions is an Estonian startup that unites the knowledge from fish-breeding (aquaculture) and IT. Introducing [...]