• DocumentCode
    13844
  • Title

    The Rise of the Estonian Start-Up Sphere

  • Author

    Dumas, Maxime

  • Author_Institution
    Software Eng., Univ. of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    July-Aug. 2014
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Twenty years ago, when the local economy of Estonia was in shatters following the Soviet collapse, few would have predicted that this small country on the border between the European Union and Russia would become an ecosystem of IT start-ups. How did it happened, and what conditions enabled it?
  • Keywords
    economics; environmental factors; Estonian start-up sphere; European Union; IT start-up ecosystem; Russia; Soviet collapse; local economy; Companies; Estonia; Government policies; Information technology; Investment; Software development; emerging economies; information technology; software engineering; software industry; start-ups;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2014.62
  • Filename
    6871699
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=13844