In Estonia, there is a lot of talk about innovation, but little effective cooperation.
Different actors in the ecosystem have collectively found that we have the skills and knowledge to support innovation in the country, but that these are unevenly distributed and it is difficult for businesses to find the right inputs.
To remedy this situation, we have created a framework for assessing innovation capacity, the innotrep model.
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Kati Rostfeldt Innovation Adviser / Product Manager, Innovation Trail Estonian Employers Confederation
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Innovation ecosystem
There are three major players in the Innotrep ecosystem: businesses in need of development, service providers with the necessary knowledge and the state.
The service providers are in turn divided into four main pillars of the business development journey – research institutions, the private sector, the financial sector and the third sector.
Innovation Trail partners
Innotrep is being developed in a PPP partnership between the private and public sectors.
Employers’ Innovation Start-up
Central Union of Estonian Employers
Innovation Leaders Club
Tehnopol / SEB
EAS/KredEx Combined Authority
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Creators of the Innovation Trail model
2022.
aasta moodustati innotrepi mudeli loomiseks töögrupp kaasates Eesti parimad innovatsioonieksperdid.
Head of Innovation Trail working group
Ivo Suursoo
Head of Innovation Start-up
Chairman of the OIXIO Group
Universities
Kadri Männasoo
Professor at the Institute of Economic Analysis and Finance
Tallinn University of Technology
Mary Kruusmaa
Professor at the Centre for Biorobotics
Tallinn University of Technology
Kadri Ukrainski
Head of the Department of Economics
University of Tartu
Private sector experts
Indrek Sabul
business consultant
OIXIO Advisory
Kitty Kubo
innovation expert
Markko Karu
systems designer, development consultant
Heidi Kakko
Investor, entrepreneur and mentor
Mart Maasik
Head of UniTartu Ventures
Innovation Leaders Club
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Sigrid Rajalo
Head of Development, Economic Development Department
Kati-Liis Vaarma
public sector innovation expert
EAS/KredEx Combined Authority
Inge Laas
Head of Innovation Department
Elisabeth Ebon Niinepuu
Principal Analyst
Helery Tasane
Principal Analyst
Aigi Kukk
Team Leader for Inspiration Services
Triin Juergens
service designer in the innovation services team
Terje Kaelep
innovation expert
Siim Kinnas
Team Leader Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property Expert