“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
Tag - Technology & Innovation
Tech trends and breakthroughs from Central Europe to Central Asia
The countries of Central and Eastern European countries are slowly embracing automation as a response to an aging population and shifting demographics. Over the past 15...
In a report published last year, the World Bank put it simply and bluntly: capital markets in Serbia are underdeveloped and underutilised. It’s as simple as that...
The global environmental organisation Greenpeace has recognised Lithuania’s Utenos trikotažas as the first – and so far the only – textile company in...
Pressure is mounting on EU leaders to agree on the bloc’s next seven-year budget, a framework crucial for most economies in emerging Europe. A special summit on February...
In order to stimulate small business financing in the Baltic States, non-bank business lender Noviti Finance and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have signed a...
By any standards of measurement, Polish bus manufacturer Solaris had an outstanding 2019. The firm, based in Bolechowo-Osiedle, near Poznań, secured orders worth...
In 2011 Daniel Kunin became the only American in an executive position at the predominantly Kazakh Kusto Group. Now managing director, he spoke to Emerging...
Venture capital fund OTB Ventures has launched an early growth technology fund worth 100 million US dollars with the intention of investing in early stage, post-product...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of small towns and cities across Europe were transformed by industrialisation. While most developed ad hoc, with...
How can countries make the best use of funding for science, education and technology? A new partnership between the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and the World Bank is...
With around 400 ICT companies and 2,000 specialists now directly employed in software development, Bosnia and Herzegovina is attempting to put itself on the map of...
The European Union has followed up its recent investment in Estonian ride-sharing start-up Bolt by signing a 20 million-euro debt agreement with Polish fintech Azimo...