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E-state took off from Ülemiste City On 5th of July in the seminar of new e-state strategies, Microsoft introduced its plans to create an innovation center to Ülemiste City to develop e-state technologies.  Rain Laane, Microsoft Estonia country manager, said that the work to establish an innovation center has been going on for several months now. But the first time it got mentioned was in Ülemiste City in the e-state seminar."We have decided with Ülemiste City, Microlink and other very good partners that Microsoft will create an innovation center to Estonia with a goal to collect Estonia´s best e-solutions and make them available to Microsoft´s partners all over the world, also helping Estonian IT companies to find new partners and contacts," said Laane. New center will subsume a spectrum of all the viable e-solutions in Estonia."In Ülemiste City we have been talking a lot about how e-state could be a new brand for Estonia. We have been creating a developing environment for companies, also having a dialog with the state so the e-state would take off. This statement that Microsoft put on the table was a clear signal showing that companies are ready," told Gunnar Kobin, CEO of Ülemiste City. Siim-Valmar Kiisler, minister for regional affairs also gave a strong statement: "E-state needs a unified leading and the bureau of minister of regional affairs is willing to take it." Kiisler said that Estonia has a strong technological base, but many technological services that we have are not very well known. One of the reasons is that the e-services are not developed all the way. "To change today's situation, the managing of intellectual property has to be from one institution. We also need to support Estonian companies seeking to enter new markets," explained Kiisler. Seminar of e-state development was held in 5th of July in restaurant Mercado by Microsoft and Ülemiste City. Among others, Taavi Kotka, the CEO of Webmedia, Jan Muehlfeit, the chairman for Microsoft Europe and Urmas Kõlli, the president of Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications also stated its support to e-state development. Microsoft will open its innovation center in Ülemiste City on this fall. AS Ülemiste City is the Smart Business City that is being established near Tallinn Airport. There will be several hundred square meters of office space and high-tech factories in the business park. The software development company Webmedia and Mainor Business School moved to Ülemiste City in the autumn of 2006. The ML Arvutid factory construction was completed in the autumn of 2007, in November Estonia´s biggest restaurant street Mercado in the heart of the business park welcomed its first customers. In January of 2008, the IT company Helmes and human resource management company Fontes moved to Ülemiste City and the building of the largest Baltic IT company, Microlink, was completed in spring of the same year.
Gunnar Kobin Jaan Vare Liisa-Indra Kärt |
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