Tallinn University - R&D Activities and Knowledge Transfer

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.