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About Enterprise Estonia

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Enterprise Estonia (EAS), established in 2000, promotes business and regional development in Estonia. Enterprise Estonia is one of the largest institutions within the national support system for entrepreneurship, providing financial assistance, advisory, cooperation opportunities and training for entrepreneurs, research establishments, public and third sector.

Enterprise Estonia operates in the following areas:

  • Increased sustainability and accelerated growth of startup companies;
  • Improved export and product development capability of Estonian companies;
  • Greater impact of foreign direct investments on the Estonian economy;
  • Increased tourism export and the development of domestic tourism.
  • Promotion of regional development and civil society.

Pursuant to the accession of Estonia to the European Union, Enterprise Estonia became one of the implementing units of the European Union structural funds in Estonia. Today, most of the EAS programs and grants offered are co-financed from the EU structural funds. In the 2007-2013 financing period of the European Union, 13 billion kroons (830 million euros), out of more than 53 billion kroons (3,4 milliard euros) of structural assistance for Estonia, will be applied by Enterprise Estonia.


Organisation

  • Total number of employees - 285.
  • Budget for 2011 - 201,5 million euros.
  • A network that reaches every county in Estonia - regional offices in Jõhvi and Tartu, and close cooperation with County Development Centers and Tourist Information Centers.
  • Foreign representative offices in Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Hamburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, California, Shanghai and Tokyo.
  • Enterprise Estonia is managed by a 4-member management board and a 11-member supervisory board, consisting of the country´s top entrepreneurs, officials and members of the parliament. In addition, advisory boards consisting of the best experts in each of the areas of Enterprise Estonia´s responsibilities give the organization advice and guidance in return for up to date information on future plans and opportunities.


The values of Enterprise Estonia are reliability, openness, competence and teamwork.


Vision

We work in order for Estonia to have a good reputation and a business environment among the best in the world.


Mission

We help to implement effective ideas.
Effective ideas are those which help us achieve our objectives.


Operating principles

  • Transparent and effective implementation of programs. We consistently seek to develop management quality.
  • Closer to the client. We are guided by the assumption that our clients are not driven by the formal terms of the support programs but make their investment decisions based on their actual needs and challenges. We put major focus on diagnostics, to identify these challenges together with our clients, in addition to pre- and post-investment consultation.
Focused activity. We seek to assist in the implementation of investment projects which have the highest possible impact according to our objectives. The support programs have been designed to provide increasing support to a narrower target group, while providing information and advice to everyone.


Strategy of Enterprise Estonia 2007-2013
Structure of Enterprise Estonia