Promoting enterpreneurship in Tallinn
Tallinn Entrepreneurship Day was held
on September 27, 2005. This promoting event was organised
by the Business Development Unit of the Tallinn City Enterprise
Board. Topics of the Second Entrepreneurship Day were Innovation
and Change.
 Aims
of the day are raising awareness of entrepreneurship, promoting
entrepreneurial spirit among citizens, encouraging business
start-ups and expansion, and extending cooperation between
public, private and third sectors. The target group consists
of potential (including students and pupils) and actual
entrepreneurs but also business federations and unions.
More than 50 different parallel activities
with 4500 participants were carried out during the day in
the form of seminars, company visits, exhibitions and presentations.
The activities were prepared according to local needs and
supported the topics of the day. The city of Tallinn organised
the day in close cooperation with local partners from public
and private sectors. To name just a few: Tallinn University
of Technology, Junior Achievement Estonia, business federations
and unions, business
incubators, Tallinn Science Park (Technopol), etc.
Tallinn Entrepreneurship Day concluded with
the award ceremony where Entrepreneurship Awards were conveyed
in 5 categories. The biggest provider of new workplaces
was granted to Elcoteq Tallinn. The best start-up company
was given to the family-owned sewing company Promodern.
The best development project was granted
to GoGroup for the creation of the multifunctional travel
centre Baltic Railway Station and GoHotel Shnelli. The best
incubator enterprise was MEC Insenerilahendused - the first
Estonian enterprise specializing engineering the ship-building
constructions. And a special award "Applied Scientific
Work 2005", which was granted in cooperation with Tallinn
University of Technology, was issued to the working group
headed by Juhan Laugis for the development of tram information
and management systems.
For more information visit investor.tallinn.ee
and ettevotlus
paev.tallinn.ee
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