School of Business and Governance

Leading researcher: Ralf-Martin Soe

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 32 000 000 €

Deadline: 2026

Finest Twins is a research and development initiative that has been developed from the doctoral thesis written by Ralf-Martin Soe, a researcher at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance. Two countries that have similar cultural backgrounds - Estonia and Finland, are combining forces to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to promote the urban environment. Bringing new technologies and special solutions to the country, the project links scientific research with innovation.

The program will create the first global cross-border smart city centre of excellence in the campus of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), with a special focus on five areas of sustainable development: energy, construction, architecture, transport, and data and governance. New technologies will be tested in Estonian cities in 2021. In the preparation phase, the initial start-up support for the project idea came mainly from the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications. TalTech received the capital required for the establishment of the Centre of Excellence, a total of 32 million euros, from the Estonian government and Horizon 2020 - the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, which is the largest competitive research grant ever allocated to Estonia.

TalTech, the City of Tallinn, the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Aalto University and the Forum Virium Innovation Centre of the City of Helsinki are working closely together to create the centre to be built in Tallinn. Finest Twins project that combines Finnish and Estonian R&D resources and knowledge will last until 2026.

The main goal of the project is to improve residents’ quality of life by introducing innovative technologies and thus make Estonian cities smarter and more sustainable.

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Leading researcher: Tõnn Talpsepp

Department: Department of Economics and Finance

Project value: 130 000 €

Deadline: 2026

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Leading researcher: Merle Küttim ja Erkki Karo

Department: Department of Business Administration and Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 885 960 €

Deadline: 2029

The study contributes in the framework of the measure „Enhancing the Knowledge Intensity of Entrepreneurship in Ida-Viru: Developing Research Capacity in Ida-Viru County to Establish a RDI Network” during 2024-2028 to the development of a theoretically grounded framework for transition processes as well as methodology and models for empirical monitoring of relevant aspects of transition. The study consists of three themes: just transition governance, Ida-Viru innovation system, and changing business models of Ida-Viru companies. The aforementioned three thematic work packages contribute together with the remaining four (monitoring and prognosis of Ida-Viru employment, development of Ida-Viru technology intensive innovation niches, vulnerability of local population and innovation potential, health impacts of transition and development of health services) to the development of the transition processes framework and are implemented in cooperation with UT research teams.

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Leading researcher: Veiko Lember

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 490 000 €

Deadline: 2030

CoE ENER covers 53% of final energy use in Estonia as well as major energy saving measures with highest investment volumes. CoE aims to contribute to Estonian societal and economic challenge to transform 75% of existing building stock with poor energy performance to zero emission buildings (ZEB) with maximized co-benefits and improved life quality by 2050. The scientific aim is to extend the excellence in ZEB technologies to become the top research centre in equity-enhancing deep renovation, driving disruptive changes and initiating systemic reforms encompassing innovative technologies, novel governance models, novel participatory and collaborative approaches to engage citizens. Interdisciplinary CoE combines engineering, social, data sciences and economics with central focus on energy performance of buildings and districts, electrification and flexibility, renewable energy generation and storage, energy saving measures and business models with their socioeconomic and regional impacts.

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Leading researcher: Tarmo Kalvet

Department: Department of Business Administration

Project value: 595 000 €

Deadline: 2030

This Centre of Excellence (CoE) focuses on fostering innovation in resource efficiency, promoting circular economy practices, utilizing local resources, ensuring safe material circulation, and educating researchers to reduce environmental impacts. It centers around four key areas: Strategic Mineral Resources (SMR), Carbon-Based Resources (CBR), Circular Technologies Upscaling (CTU), and Circular Business Eco-System and Modeling (CBEM). The SMR group maps critical materials in waste streams, including renewables, for extraction and reuse while minimizing hazardous waste. The CBR group develops eco-friendly pathways for essential chemicals and plastics, also assessing their environmental impact. The CTU group pioneers waste reduction and recycling methods for aqueous, and solid waste, incl. water purification. The CBEM group analyzes sustainable business ecosystems and value chains. This CoE's interdisciplinary approach will benefit both Estonia and Europe by advancing circular economy.

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Leading researcher: Tiina Randma-Liiv

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 288 713 €

Deadline: 2026

The focus of European post-pandemic politics is on enhancing system capacities for ‘bouncing back’ from crisis to normalcy. These efforts draw on resilience research, which has become the dominant paradigm in crisis management. However, there are broad governance challenges that the resilience approach fails to consider. Centrally, how can European societies harness flexible adaptation and proactive innovation to deliver effective crisis responses in situations, where going back to the way things were is neither possible nor desirable? How can democratic institutions uphold core values such as democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights in the face of crisis-induced turbulence? To address these challenges, the ROBUST project aims to set in motion a paradigm shift from ‘resilience’ (‘bouncing back’) to ‘robustness’(‘building back better’) as the central principle of future crisis governance. The project breaks new ground by operationalizing the concept of robust crisis governance and investigating such responses empirically. The project combines historical and comparative analysis at EU, national and local levels together with a multi-dimensional dataset out of which we identify the configurations of factors that drive (or block) robustness in crisis governance. The project studies responses by EU institutions and eight European countries to recent crises (with emphasis on COVID-19) to understand general patterns in system-level crises response. At the same time, we also conduct in-depth studies of localized COVID-19 responses in 16 European localities to understand how EU, national and local crisis responses interact and are experienced by citizens. On this basis, the project delivers the elements of a new mindset and a paradigm change along with policy recommendations for enabling the robust crisis governance of the future.

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Leading researcher: Veiko Lember

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 729 688 €

Deadline: 2025

Public administrations across Europe face double pressure to adjust to the digital age while inducing sustainable development. As they do so, the governments need to develop new, and redevelop old, public administration and policy capabilities. The current project rests on the assumption that public administrations form a pivotal yet often neglected cog in social shaping of technological progress driving the sustainable future. The objective of the PAFSD project is to create a new generation world-class research, teaching and knowledge transfer capabilities at the cross-roads of public administration, digital transformation and sustainable transition at TalTech, Estonia. This will be achieved by complementing the existing unique knowledge base of TalTech with training a new generation early-career researchers, exchanging new knowledge between senior researchers and support staff, developing new educational capabilities, actively engaging in policy networks internationally, enhancing organizational capabilities and doing a hands-on small-scale research project. The PADST project will pool the competences of three of the leading European research universities - KU Leuven, Universiteit Utrecht, and University College London - with TalTech to develop an international cutting-edge research center studying and shaping public administration capabilities fit for the digital and sustainable future in Estonia, Europe and beyond.

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Leading researcher: Kristi Joamets

Department: Department of Law

Project value: 139 731 €

Deadline: 2026

The general objective of the EquiTech project is to enhance capacity of public authorities in Estonia and Lithuania in addressing risks of bias and discrimination in ADM procedures. This will be achieved by developing research, support materials, trainings and media campaign. This will be reached by:
1. Desk research on gaps in policies and legal frameworks on AI in Estonia and Lithuania together with mapping of potential risks of discrimination and bias in ADM systems deployed by Estonian public authorities.
2. Development of practical toolkits to address potential risks for discrimination and bias in design and deployment of ADM systems;
3. Capacity building with inclusion among project stakeholders and target groups through trainings, study trips, international conference and academic webinars;
4. Raising public awareness on the risks of discrimination and bias in public sector ADM systems.
As a result, we will minimize the probability of discrimination and bias in Estonian and Lithuanian ADM systems and set an example to other member states, contributing to the national action plans against racism and strategies against antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia, LGBTIQ-phobia and all other forms of intolerance.

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Leading researcher: Jaanus Müür

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 207 532 €

Deadline: 2025

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Leading researcher: Wolfgang Dieter Gerstlberger

Department: Department of Business Administration

Project value: 161 225 €

Deadline: 2026

Active mobility is an accessible, healthy and green mode of transport. In the BSR dark winters, with snow and rain, active mobility usage drops. To increase Year-Round Active Mobility (YRAM), suitable infrastructure and equipment must be in place, and citizens need to see it as an attractive and safe option. Public Authorities responsible for urban design, mobility planning and road maintenance do not currently give special consideration for YRAM. Out of tradition, mobility and road planning is still largely focused on cars, and cycling and walking planning typically targets daylight and warmer weather conditions. By learning about the benefits and opportunities through accessing new tools and evidence-based recommendations on YRAM, planners can implement the right interventions to increase AM use all year round, contributing to low carbon mobility systems. BATS supports local and regional authorities to design and implement policies, infrastructures and campaigns that effectively promote Year-Round Active Mobility (walking and cycling in adverse light and weather conditions). Our two solutions will be co-developed and tested in 7 BSR countries and transferred to neighbouring cities and regions. Solution 1: a YRAM Technical Toolkit, helps planners to Diagnose YRAM issues, develop Intervention Strategies and Monitor progress. Solution 2: a Citizen Activation Guide for YRAM helps planners understand and prioritise user groups and deploys effective campaigns to promote AM use.

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Leading researcher: Robert Krimmer

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 8 000 000 €

Deadline: 2021

The “Once-Only” Principle Project (TOOP) is an innovation action which explores and demonstrates the implementation of the “once-only” principle on a cross-border scale with the aim to reduce the administrative burden for businesses and public administrations and contribute to the EU digital single market. The “once-only” principle assumes that businesses should provide any information to public bodies only once, and public organisations should share and reuse any data that already exists in public databases. TOOP aims to explore and demonstrate the “once-only” principle (OOP) on a cross-border pan-European scale by developing a generic federated architecture that is able to connect registries and e-government architectures in different countries. This architecture is tested and refined through pilot projects in three domains: 1) cross-border e-services for business mobility; 2) connected company data; 3) online ship and crew certificates. TOOP pilots are unique in their ambition and scale, involving 60 information systems in 20 EU Member States and associated countries. The overall project coordinator is TTÜ Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance (RND). Next to management, RND is involved in the identification of the barriers related to cross-border data exchange, and impact assessment. TTÜ’s Department of Software Science leads the task of IT architecture development.

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Leading researcher: Vasilis Kostakis

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 1 017 275 €

Deadline: 2022

COSMOLOCALISM will document, analyze, test, evaluate, and create awareness of an emerging mode of production, based on the confluence of the digital commons (e.g., open knowledge and desing) with local manufacturing and automation technologies (from 3D printing and CNC machines to low-tech tools and crafts). This convergence could catalyze the transition to new inclusive and circular production models, such as the "desing global, manufacture local" (DGML) model. COSMOLOCALISM is a pilot-driven investigation of the DGML phenomenon that seeks to understand relevant organizationa models, their evolution, end their broader political economy/ecology and policy implications. Throuhg the lens of diverse case studies and participatory action research, the conditions under which the DGML model thrives will be explred

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Leading researcher: Erkki Karo

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 297 000 €

Deadline: 2021

The aim of research is to analyse the status and development potential of value chains and the use of bioresources to increase the competitiveness of Estonian bioeconomy by taking into account the principles of sustainable development. The mapping of the current state of Estonian bioeconomy is based on the analysis of six value chains: food and feed; cellulose, paper products, products and constructing from wood; textile and clothes; biofuels and bioenergy; biomaterials, chemicals, pharmacy and plastic products; and ecosystem services in bioeconomy. The applicability of the best available technologies to valorise existing bioresources and to develop scenarios for Estonian bioeconomy will be studied. In pre-selected fields, new business models will be developed, and their environmental and socio-economic impact will be analysed. Companies and public sector decision-makers can use the bioeconomy scenarios and business models in their strategic planning and policy making processes. Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance coordinated the activities of scenario building and policy analysis and recommendations

Leading researcher: Tiina Randma-Liiv

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 245 000 €

Deadline: 2021

The TROPICO project (Transforming into Open, Innovative and Collaborative Governments) aims to comparatively examine how public administrations are transformed to enhance collaboration in policy design and service delivery, advancing the participation of public, private and societal actors. It will analyse collaboration in and by governments, with a special emphasis on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and its consequences. Assessing the institutional conditions and individual drivers and barriers is crucial for understanding the transformation of governments towards greater collaboration. The state structures and administrative traditions provide different 'starting points' of the public sectors in Europe. Likewise, individual attitudes, skills, and expertise of officials play a decisive role in understanding this transformation. Subsequently, TROPICO will examine collaboration practices within governments (internal) and between public, private and societal actors (external), across a variety of policy sectors. The project will address the actors and means of innovative collaboration, including ICT, and how they are interlinked. Lastly, assessing the effects of collaboration for legitimacy, accountability and government efficiency is essential to provide a comprehensive analysis of the transformation towards open, innovative, and collaborative governments. This multidisciplinary project will follow a truly comparative approach, examining ten countries representing the five administrative traditions in Europe: Nordic (Norway, Denmark), Central and Eastern European (Estonia, Hungary), Continental (Netherlands, Germany), Napoleonic (France, Spain; Belgium (mixed)), and Anglo-Saxon (United Kingdom). The project will combine rigorous quantitative and qualitative research methods. TROPICO puts a strong emphasis on the inclusion of stakeholders and users throughout the project to test and reflect upon the applicability of findings and policy recommendations.

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Leading researcher: Gunnar Klaus Prause

Department: Department of Business Administration

Project value: 195 085€

Deadline: 2021

The Creative Ports project brings together public authorities and business support organisations, cultural institutes and researchers to stimulate the internationalisation of the cultural and creative sectors. The majority of design, art, fashion, publishing, audio visual and gaming companies in the Baltic Sea region are medium-sized and often lack the networks to access international markets. Creative Ports provides knowledge, facilitates exchange and develops tools to train and connect business support organisations with public authorities.

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Leading researcher: Tarmo Kalvet

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 162 000 €

Deadline: 2022

Catching-Up along the global value chain: business models, determinants and policy implications in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a project built on a multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial exchange program focused on unravelling the process of Catching-Up from different sectorial perspectives at a country level. It analyses the role of business models (BMs) in entering, learning and upgrading the Global Value Chain (GVC), aiming at recognising the determinants and challenges faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in tackling the process of upgrading in a globalising economy. The outcome of the project will be the definition of policy tools and frameworks to support effective policy-making actions in the implementation of Research and Innovation Smart Specialization Strategy (RIS3), with respect to the new agenda of Europe 2020, mainly for low-income EU countries.

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Leading researcher: Matti Ylönen

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 154 193 €

Deadline: 2022

In 2015, Estonia launched its e-residency program that gave foreigners the ability to apply for a digital residency in Estonia, even if they don't live in the country. Three years, more than 40,000 people had obtained e- residency. Moreover, these e-residents had established nearly 6,700 companies in Estonia, benefiting from Estonian business-friendly tax laws, access to online payment systems, and so forth. Recently, a small number of academic papers have emerged that discuss the governance and business aspects of e-residency. However, most of the key texts have been authored by civil servants, and there has been a lack of analyses on how the e-residency initiative shapes the broader global political economy. Some of the crucial questions are as follows: How does the proliferation of e- residency program impact the EU-level efforts of international tax cooperation, as well as the concept of economic citizenship that underlies the international tax system? Should the e-residency initiative be seen as a new solution to the governance challenges of the EU's Digital Single Market, or does it rather accelerate international race to the bottom in business regulation? How does the initiative alter the self-perception of both Estonian government and the entrepreneurs that use e-residency? By analyzing the broader political economy of the initiative, the PEER project carries a potential for significant academic and policy-level contributions. Utilizing interviews, textual sources and financial statement analysis, the project focuses both on the governance side of the initiative and its users. The result will be a broad-ranging, inter-disciplinary inquiry into a phenomenon that may have potential to transform the concept of citizenship. The results will have high policy-relevance not only in Estonia, but also within the European Union, as well as in those EU member states that are allegedly considering implementing similar initiatives.

Leading researcher: Aaro Hazak

Department: Department of Economics and Finance

Project value: 900 000 €

Deadline: 2023

IBEP is a project led by Tallinn University of Technology in collaboration with internationally leading counterparts Aalto University, University of Helsinki and Tel Aviv University.

The project aims at generating a better understanding of linkages between individual behaviour and economic performance. Behavioural economics has deepened our understanding of various deviations from rationality in economic performance. Economic outcomes of prevalent individual differences in cognitive capacity and neurophysiology as well as in beliefs and preferences warrant further investigation. Moreover, better designed economic policy and institutions, which take into account that people are different and their wellbeing responds differently to any given policy measures, leads to better utilisation of human capital endowment and enhanced economic performance. The project is a joint effort of economics, finance, practical philosophy and neuroscience scholars, where several internationally highly renowned professors work under a comprehensive set of networking and capacity building activities together with established and early stage researchers in a stimulating multidisciplinary setting.

Several joint doctoral courses and seminars, conferences, summer schools and supervising/advising activities are scheduled in 2020-2023.

Leading researcher: Abel Polese, Tanel Kerikmäe, Archil Chochia

Department: Department of Law

Project value: 464 139 €

Deadline: 2024

Project MARKETS responds to novel opportunities emerging in post-Soviet spaces by conducting a study on the influence of both formal and informal factors impacting on access to markets in eight countries in the post-USSR.

Leading researcher: Veiko Lember

Department: Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project value: 394 425 €

Deadline: 2024

With the industrial revolution, technology was introduced to society, creating significant economic benefits to regional and national economies. However, globalisation resulted in European cities losing a large volume of their manufacturing capacity, transitioning into a knowledge economy. As a consequence, manufacturing jobs have decreased and neglected industrial areas have fallen into decay.

The EU-funded CENTRINNO project aims to develop and demonstrate strategies, approaches and solutions for the regeneration of industrial historic sites and areas as creative production and manufacturing hubs that stay true to the ecological challenges of our time. The areas will also boost a diverse, inclusive and innovative urban economy and use heritage as a catalyst for innovation and social inclusion.

The lead partner of the project is Milan; in addition, Spain, the Netherlands, Croatia, Iceland, Italy, Greece, France, Switzerland and Denmark are also participating.

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Leading researcher: Archil Chochia

Department: Department of Law

Project value: 387 500 €

Deadline: 2024

The project aims to study how the media discourses are constructed to foster or hamper the European project and how they resonate among the public by focusing on the elite-media-public triangle.

MEDIATIZED EU starts from two fundamental premises. The first, that the media play a central role in the construction of reality, influencing the way it is politically constituted, closing political dynamics as or more relevant than the formal political processes themselves. The second recognises the existence of multiple Europes and, subsequently, of different narratives of what it means “to be European” and what it means to be “Europe” as a common project. In this sense, MEDIATIZED EU will seek to analyse the representations of the "European project" and the concept and processes of "Europeanisation" conveyed by the media (conventional and digital) in Europe, as well as the perceptions of European public opinion towards these representations. The project will map and analyse the political, social, economic and legal information and misinformation systems, processes and dynamics that build these different representations of the EU in the European media space and understand the ways in which they are appropriated, negotiated, co-opted or contested by public opinion in the different Europes within Europe itself.

With a strong political and communication component, MEDIATIZED EU will generate a panoply of results addressed to various audiences, among others, scientific articles, books and book chapters, policy and good practice recommendations, podcasts, website, op-eds or higher education curricula.

TalTech's research article of the year 2024 in the field of social sciences and humanities

• Marquardt, Leon; Harima, Aki (2024). Digital boundary spanning in the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: A dynamic capabilities perspective. Journal of Business Research, 182,  #114762. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114762.

School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2024

• Harima, Aki; Harima, Jan; Freiling, Jörg (2024). Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 48 (6),  1404−1450. DOI: 10.1177/10422587241241824.
• Raudla, Ringa; Mohr, Zachary; Douglas, James W. (2024). Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation? Public Administration, 102 (2), 771−788. DOI: 10.1111/padm.12951
• Raudla, Ringa; Sarapuu, Külli; Vallistu, Johanna; Harbuzova, Nastassia (2024). It is about time! Exploring the clashing timeframes of politics and public policy experiments. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 7 (4), 137−148. DOI: 10.1093/ppmgov/gvae008
• Ittefaq, Huma; Akhtar, Naeem; Siddiqi, Umar Iqbal; Islam, Tahir; Kuzior, Aleksandra (2024). The betrayal puzzle: Unravelling the connection between inauthenticity, corporate wrongdoing and brand betrayal with avoidance and reparation. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 76, #103597. DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2023.103597
• Männasoo, Kadri; Pareliussen, Jon Kristian; Saia, Artjom (2023). Digital capacity and employment outcomes: Microdata evidence from pre- and post-COVID-19 Europe. Telematics and Informatics, 83, #102024. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2023.102024
• Troitiño, David Ramiro; Mazur, Viktoria; Kerikmäe, Tanel (2024). E-governance and integration in the European union. Internet of Things, 27,  #101321. DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2024.101321
• Olaniyi, O. Eunice; Solarte Vasquez, Maria Claudia; Inkinen, Tommi (2024). Smart Regulations in Maritime Governance: Efficacy, Gaps and Stakeholder Perspectives. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 202,  #116341. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116341.
• Masso, Anu; Kasapoglu, Tayfun; Kaun, Anne; Galis, Vasilis (2024). Citizens’ perspectives on platformisation of police work: a scenario and story-based exploration in Estonia and Sweden. Information Communication & Society, 27 (13),  2400−2418. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2333842.
• Fadmastuti, M., Nowak, D., Crompvoets, J. (2024). Flood data platform governance: Identifying the technological and socio-technical approach(es) differences. Environmental Science & Policy, 162,  #103938. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103938.
• Toding, Martin; Mädamürk, Kaja; Venesaar, Urve; Malleus, Elina (2023). Teachers' mindset and attitudes towards learners and learning environment to support students' entrepreneurial attitudes in universities. The International Journal of Management Education, 21 (1),  100769. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijme.2023.100769.

School of Business and Governance's research article of the year 2024 in the field of ESG

• Kostakis, V.; Pazaitis, A.; Liarokapis, M. (2023). Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance. Big Data & Society, 10 (1). DOI: 10.1177/20539517231180583

School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2023:

Kalantaridis, C.; Küttim, M. (2023). Multi-dimensional time and university technology commercialization as opportunity praxis: a realist synthesis of the accumulated literature. Technovation, 122, 102685
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Robra, B.; Pazaitis, A.; Giotitsas, C.; Pansera, M. (2023). From creative destruction to convivial innovation - A post-growth perspective. Technovation, 125, 102760
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Prokop, V.; Gerstlberger, W.; Zapletal, D.; Gyamfi, S. (2023). Do we need human capital heterogeneity for energy efficiency and innovativeness? Insights from European catching-up territories. Energy Policy, 177
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Verhoest, K.; Callens, C.; Klijn, E., H.; Brogaard, L.; García‐Rayado, J.; Nõmmik, S. (2023). Designing cross‐sector collaboration to foster technological innovation: Empirical insights from eHealth partnerships in five countries. Public Administration Review, 1−18. 
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Randma-Liiv, T. (2022). Organizing e-participation: Challenges stemming from the multiplicity of actors. Public Administration, 100 (4), 1037−1053.
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Wouters, S.; Lember, V.; Janssen M.; Crompvoets, J. (2023). Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks. Government Information Quarterly, 40 (1), 101779. 
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Stein, M.-K.; Lim, E. T.; Tan, C.-W. (2022). Explaining Persistent Ineffectiveness in Professional Online Communities: Multilevel Tensions and Misguided Coping Strategies. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23 (1), 372−400. 
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Levenko, N.; Staehr, K. (2023). Self-reported tax compliance in post-transition Estonia. Economic Systems, , 47 (3), 101047. 
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Polese, A.; Fradejas-García, I.; Šimić Banović, R.; Škokić, V.; Kerikmäe, T.; Luis Molina, J.; Alpeza, M.; Lubbers, M. J.; Camerani, A. (2022). Labour Mobility and Informality: Romanian Migrants in Spain and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Croatia; Politics and Governance, 10 (2), 279−292.
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School of Business and Governance's research article of the year 2024 in the field of ESG

Priavolou, C.; Troullaki, K.; Tsiouris, N.; Giotitsas, C.; Kostakis, V. (2022). Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localization perspective: A case of 3D printers. Journal of Cleaner Production,  376, 134291
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TalTech's research article of the year 2022 in the field of  engineering and technology:

Saia, A.; Neshumayev, D.; Hazak, A.; Sander, P.; Jarvik, O.; Konist, A. (2022) Techno-economic assessment of CO2 capture possibilities for oil shale power plants. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 169, ARTN 112938.
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TalTech's research article of the year 2022 in the field of social sciences and humanities:

Talpsepp, T.; Tanav, A.-L. (2021) Do gender, age and education affect herding in the real estate market? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 32, #100571.
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School of Business and Governance's research article of the year 2022 in the field of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability:

Kurashvili, M.; Reinhold, K.; Järvis, M. (2022). Managing an ageing healthcare workforce: a systematic literature review. Journal of Health Organization and Management.
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School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2022:

Salman, A.; Connolly, C.; Demirag, I. (2021). Testing times: governing a pandemic with numbers. Accounting Auditing Accountability Journal.
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Randma-Liiv, T. (2022). Adoption is not enough: Institutionalization of e-participation initiatives. Public Policy and Administration,  095207672110691. 
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Ferraro, S.; Agasisti, T.; Porcelli, F.; Soncin, M. (2021). Local governments’ efficiency and educational results: empirical evidence from Italian primary schools. Applied Economics, 53 (35),  4017−4039.
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Koroleva, E.; Laidroo, L.; Avarmaa, M. (2021). Performance of FinTechs: Are founder characteristics important? Journal of East European Management Studies, 2,  306−338.
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Hollebeek, L. D.; Kumar, V.; Srivastava, R. K.; Clark, M. K. (2022). Moving the stakeholder journey forward. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 
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Chafik, S.; Drechsler, W. (2022). In the Semi‐Shadow of the Global West: Moroccan zawāyā as Good Public Administration. Public Administration Review, 82 (4),  747−755.
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Kuronen, J. O.; Winell, K.; Hartsenko, J.; Räsänen, K. P. (2022). Occupational health care personnel tackling alcohol overuse – an observational study of work processes and patient characteristics. BMC Public Health, 22 (1),  #67. 
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Männasoo, K. (2022). Working Hours and Gender Wage Differentials: Evidence from the American Working Conditions Survey. Labour Economics, 76,  #102148.
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Keypour, J.; Ahmadzada, U. (2021). Consolidating EU energy security by relying on energy de-politicisation. European Security,  1−23.
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School of Business and Governance's research article of the year 2021 in the field of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability:
Prokop, V.; Gerstlberger, W.; Zapletal, D.; Striteska, M. K. (2021). The double-edged role of firm environmental behaviour in the creation of product innovation in Central and Eastern European countries. Journal of Cleaner Production,  #129989.
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School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2021:
Mohr, Z. T.; Raudla, R.; Douglas, J. W. (2021). Comparing Cost Accounting Use across European Countries: The Role of Administrative Traditions, NPM Instruments, and Fiscal Stress. Public Administration Review, 81 (2),  299−307.
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Hammerschmidt, J.; Durst, S.; Kraus, S., Puumalainen, K. (2021). Professional football clubs and empirical evidence from the COVID-19 crisis: Time for sport entrepreneurship? Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 165,  #120572. 
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Laidroo, L.; Koroleva, E.; Kliber, A.; Rupeika-Apoga, R.; Grigaliuniene, Z. (2021). Business models of FinTechs – Difference in similarity? Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 46,  #101034. 
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Pazaitis, A.; Kostakis, V. (2021). Are the most influential websites peer-produced or price-incentivized? Organizing value in the digital economy. Organization. 
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Harkmann, K.; Staehr, K. (2021). Current account drivers and exchange rate regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of International Money and Finance, 110,  ARTN 102286. 
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Priavolou, C.; Tsiouris, N.; Niaros, V.; Kostakis, V. (2021). Towards Sustainable Construction Practices: How to Reinvigorate Vernacular Buildings in the Digital Era? Buildings, 11 (7),  #297. 
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Kirs, M.; Lember, V.; Karo, E. (2021). Technology Transfer in Economic Periphery: Emerging Patterns and Policy Challenges. Review of Policy Research. 
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Müür, J. (2021). Intermediating Smart Specialisation and Entrepreneurial Discovery: The Cases of Estonia and Helsinki Uusimaa. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 
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Drechsler, W. (2021). New development: Myanmar’s civil service—Responsible disobedience during the 2021 military coup. Public Money  Management, 41 (7),  577−580. 
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Järv, O.; Masso, A.; Silm, S.; Ahas, R. (2021). The Link Between Ethnic Segregation and Socio‐Economic Status: An Activity Space Approach. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112 (3),  319−335. 
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TalTech's research article of the year 2020 in the field of social sciences and humanities:
Durst, S.; Zieba, M. (2020). Knowledge risks inherent in business sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production, 251,  ARTN 119670. 
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School of Business and Governance's research article of the year 2020 in the field of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability:
Kasabov, E. (2020). Ignored, Silenced, Caricatured, Ridiculed, Patronised, and Hijacked: What Next for a post-Populist, post-Gilded-Age Countryside? Journal of Rural Studies, 75, 143-151.
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School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2020:
Kattel, R.; Lember, V.; Tõnurist, P. (2020). Collaborative Innovation and Human-Machine Networks. Public Management Review, 22 (11), 1652−1673. 
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Salman, A.; Ciaran, C.; Istemi, D. (2020). Toward an understanding of strategic control at a distance in public service delivery. Accounting Auditing  Accountability Journal, 34 (3), 558-590.
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Kalantaridis, C.; Küttim, M. (2020). University Ownership and Information about the Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Commercialisation: A Systematic Review and Realist Synthesis of the Literature. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 46, 1487–1513.
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Talpsepp, T.; Liivamägi, K.; Vaarmets, T. (2020). Academic abilities, education and performance in the stock market. Journal of Banking  Finance, 117, (105848).
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Bekiros, S.; Nilavongse, R.; Uddin, G. S. (2020). Expectation-Driven House Prices and Debt Defaults: The Effectiveness of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies. Journal of Financial Stability, 49, (100760).
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Raudla, R.; Bur, S.; Keel, K. (2020). The Effects of Crises and European‐Level Fiscal Governance Reforms on the Budgetary Processes of Member States. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, 58 (3), 740−756. 
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Männasoo, K.; Meriküll, J. (2020). Credit constraints and RD over the boom and bust: Firm-level evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. Economic Systems, 44 (2), 100747
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Illiashenko, P.; Laidroo, L. (2020). National culture and bank risk-taking: Contradictory case of individualism. Research in International Business and Finance, 51 (101069). 
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TalTech's research article of the year 2019 in the field of social sciences and humanities:
Toots, M. (2019). Why E-participation systems fail: The case of Estonia's Osale.ee. Government Information Quarterly, 36 (3), 546−559. 
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School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2019:
Laidroo, L.; Avarmaa, M. (2020). The role of location in FinTech formation. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 32 (7-8), 555−572. 
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Vaarmets, T.; Liivamägi K.; Talpsepp, T. (2019). How Does Learning and Education Help to Overcome the Disposition Effect. Review of Finance, 23 (4), 801−830. 
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Rosenberg, S. (2019). The effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy on house prices in the Scandinavian countries. Journal of Housing Economics, 46, (101659). 
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Kukk, M. (2019). Debt repayment problems: short-term and long-term implications for spending. Review of Economics of the Household, 17 (2), 715−740. 
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Lember, V.; Brandsen, T.; Tõnurist, P. (2019). The Potential Impacts of Digital Technologies on Co-Production and Co-Creation. Public Management Review, 21 (11), 1665-1686.
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Kickert, W.; Randma-Liiv, T. (2019). No Direct Influence of EU on Domestic Consolidation and Reform: Two Fiscal ‘Hardliners’, Netherlands and Estonia. Public Management Review, 21 (9), 1330−1347. 
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Piatak, J. S.; Douglas, J. W.; Raudla, R. (2020). The role perceptions of government professionals: the effects of gender, educational field, and prior job sector. Public Management Review, 22 (10), 1515−1534. 
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Kostakis, V. (2018). In Defense of Digital Commoning. Organization. 25 (6), 812-818. 
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Karo, E. (2018). Mission-oriented innovation policies and bureaucracies in East Asia. Industrial and Corporate Change, 27 (5), 867−881. 
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TalTech's research article of the year 2018 in the field of social sciences and humanities:
Männasoo, K.; Hein, H.; Ruubel, R. (2018). The contributions of human capital, R&D spending and convergence to total factor productivity growth. Regional Studies, 52 (12), 1598-1611.
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School of Business and Governance's research articles of the year 2018:
Kostakis, V.; Latoufis, K.; Liarokapis, M.; Bauwens, M. (2018). The convergence of digital commons with local manufacturing from a degrowth perspective: Two illustrative cases. Journal of Cleaner Production, 197, 1684−1693. 
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Ferraro, S. (2018). Is information and communication technology satisfying educational needs at school? Computers & Education, 122, 194−204. 
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Kickert, W.; Randma-Liiv, T. (2017). The Politics of Cutback Management in Thirteen European Countries: Statistical Evidence on Causes and Effects. Public Management Review, 19 (2), 175−193.
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Pazaitis, A.; De Filippi, P.; Kostakis, V. (2017). Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 125, 105−115. 
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Kalantaridis, C.; Küttim, M.; Govind, M.; Sousa, C. (2017). How to commercialise university-generated knowledge internationally? A comparative analysis of contingent institutional conditions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 123, 35−44. 
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Carlberg, M.; Koppel, T.; Ahonen, M.; Hardell, L. (2018). Case-Control Study on Occupational Exposure to Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields and the Association with Meningioma. BioMed Research International. 
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Raudla, R.; Douglas, J. W.; Savi, R.; Randma-Liiv, T. (2017). Fiscal Crisis and Expenditure Cuts: The Influence of Public Management Practices on Cutback Strategies in Europe. The American Review of Public Administration, 47 (3), 376−394. 
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Zhao, X.; Drechsler, W. (2018). Wang Anshi’s economic reforms: proto-Keynesian economic policy in Song Dynasty China. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 16 (1), 1−16. 
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Niine, T.; Kolbre, E.; Miina, A. (2017). Enablers and Constraints of Peripheral Air Cargo - a case study of Estonia. Journal of Air Transport Management, 61, 106−114. 
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Cuestas, J. C.; Filipozzi, F.; Staehr, K. (2017). Uncovered Interest Parity in Central and Eastern Europe: Expectations and Structural Breaks. Review of International Economics, 25 (4), 695−710. 
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