The competence centres, to be established outside Harju and Tartu County, will begin developing, in cooperation between entrepreneurs and researchers, internationally competitive innovations in sectors that typify their home regions.
Monika Hankov, director of the Enterprise Estonia entrepreneurship environment division, said the green-lighted ideas include some that deal with development of Estonia’s traditional fields of enterprise as well as newer activity directions. “Some of the more traditional sectors represented include /…/ the small shipbuilding project related to an old regional tradition that is undergoing a comeback /…/”