R&D Activities and Knowledge Transfer
The main objectives of R&D activities are efficiency and a high international standard. To achieve these the university will:
- Increase the proportion of researchers to at least 30 percent of academic personnel;
- Concentrate research while specifying the priority directions of study mainly through intensifying cooperation between the faculties of the university, but also with other research and development establishments;
- Develop centres of competence;
- Introduce systems for motivating lecturers and researchers and for international publication of results;
- Support application of research results and applied studies;
- Orient itself towards increasing the role of international joint projects (mainly research and development programmes of the European Union) and other foreign funding of research;
- Improve the conditions of research work (providing researchers and lecturers with the time, facilities, equipment, literature, study abroad, information technology, etc. necessary for research);
- Increase the role of faculties in coordinating research work within the faculties and respectively the responsibility of the faculties for the quality of the research; create favourable conditions for developing perspective fields of research;
- Take active part in initiating, developing and carrying out national and regional projects;
- Develop cooperation with other research libraries of Estonia with the aim of meeting the research and training needs of academic personnel and students to a maximum extent;
- Mediate the results of research to the general public; develop a complex system of research and training marketing.R&D Department
Knowledge transfer and implementation of research results for society needs development of services, working processes and products of organisations and institutions. Basic forms of knowledge transfer are:
- Research and development projects,
- Knowledge services,
- Sale of definitive work,
- Industrial property,
- Spin-off enterprises.
Knowledge services:
- Providing a service outside the university
- Providing a service based on university R&D and educational activities;
- Services offered by university members or contract partners.
The university has thus made its logical contribution to the introduction of the national R&D strategy 2002-2006 “Knowledge-based Estonia”: Knowledge Transfer Centre and Knowledge Transfer Area.
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