Ragnar Nurkse innovatsiooni ja valitsemise instituut

Innovation Policy Lab

About the lab

“You can’t manager what you can’t measure?” Then you are not an innovation manager.

Innovation Policy Lab is the leading centre for science, technology and innovation systems and policies. We build individual skills and organisation capacities to manager public sector innovation processes.

 

Key facts

 

RND is home to 4 Estonian National Research Award winners in Social Sciences

Since 2012, RND has participated in 8 FP7/H2020 projects

Together with tens of additional international and national, research grants RND has been able to secure more than EUR 11 million worth competitive research funding since 2012

Our core staff has held academic positions in top universities around the globe: Bologna, Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, KU Leuven, London School of Economics and Political Science, Lund, National University of Singapore, University College London and many more

We have provided consultancy to leading international organizations such as European Commission, OECD, United Nations, World Bank and numerous national and sub-national governments around the globe

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Our Work

Our Core Research Areas

 

Techno-economic paradigms and ICT diffusion

Future innovation systems and policies

Public Sector Innovation Systems

Dynamic innovation capabilities, technological capacities of Public Sector Organization

Our Policy Studies

 

We carry out studies on the most relevant topics for the contemporary STI policy debates:

Mission-Oriented Policies in European and East Asia

Smart Specialization

Managing STI policies and instruments

Evaluations of Polices and Governance Systems

Public Policies and Global Value Chains in Periphery

Circular Economies Strategies for Estonia

Projects

Development of Scenarios and Business Models for Estonian Bio-economy Sector - an applied research project procured by the Estonian ministries for 2018-2020
Estonian Academy of Sciences Research Professor Grant on the Future of Innovation Studies 2016-2018 (Prof. Rainer Kattel)

Publications

Blog post, Rainer Kattel and Erkki Karo Start-up Governments, Can Bureaucracies Innovate: Read more

Blog post, Rainer Kattel and Erkki Karo Start-up Governments, Can Bureaucracies Innovate: Read more

Courses and talks

Blog post, Rainer Kattel and Erkki Karo Start-up Governments, Can Bureaucracies Innovate: Read more

Blog post, Rainer Kattel and Erkki Karo Start-up Governments, Can Bureaucracies Innovate: Read more

University staff

Robert Krimmer

Head of the Digital Governance Lab Professor of e-Governance at Ragnar Nurkse Department ETIS CV

Wolfgang Drechsler

Professor of Governance at the Ragnar Nurkse Department Associate at Davis Centre, Harvard University ETIS CV

Erkki Karo

Director, Senior Research Fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse Department ETIS CV

Veiko Lember

Senior Research Fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse Department Visiting Fellow at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven ETIS CV

Maarja Toots

Phd Student, Junior Research Fellow ETIS CV

David Duenas-Cid

Researcher – Internet Voting ETIS CV

Iuliia Krivonosova

PhD student, Junior Research Fellow ETIS CV

Aleksandrs Cepilovs

Project Manager – TOOP ETIS CV

Ralf-Martin Soe

Research Fellow and Smart City Lead ETIS CV

Gerli Aavik

PhD student Expert of human-centered design at the Ministry of Social Affairs. ETIS CV

Carsten Schmidt

Sustainability Manager and Project Expert for e-Government and e-Justice.

Akadeemia tee 3 Tallinn, Estonia
620 2661
www.ttu.ee/nurkse