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Project
background
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Estonia from the
Outside
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2003 World Economic
Freedom Index
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1.
Hong Kong
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2.
Singapore
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3.
New Zealand
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6.
Estonia
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6.
United States
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9.
United Kingdom
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11. Finland
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19. Germany
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29. Lithuania
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33. Latvia
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35. Czech Republic
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44. Hungary
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The Global
Competitiveness
Report
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1.
United States
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2.
Finland
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3.
Taiwan
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4.
Singapore
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5.
Sweden
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26. Estonia
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28. Slovenia
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29. Hungary
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36. Lithuania
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40. Czech Republic
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44. Latvia
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51. Poland
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Competitiveness of
Engineering Industries:
Export
percentages in engineering
industries by activity fields in
2000-2001
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Activity
field
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Export
importance, 2000
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Export
importance, 2001 IV Quarter
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Chemistry
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11.3%
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6.8%
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Production
of building materials
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3.6%
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2.7%
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Production
of foodstuffs, drinks,
tobacco
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12.8%
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12.0%
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Wood
processing, production of
furniture and paper
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29.1%
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27.3%
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Textile
industry
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13.0%
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18.1%
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Machine
and apparatus building
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24.2%
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24.3%
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Other
activities
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4.7%
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8.8%
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Source: Statistical
Office of Estonia
General
Description of Machine Building,
Metal Working, and Apparatus
Industry Sector
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22.3%
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Sector importance in
engineering industries
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26%
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Export importance in the
sector
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1200
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Number of companies in
the sector
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20 000
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Number of employees in
the sector
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670 mln Euro
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Turnover per year
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450 000 tons
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Steel supply required per
year
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Distribution of
Activities by Location
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Estonian Machine, Metal and Apparatus Building Industry
– What Kind We Are?
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Resources
People
Money
Time
Professional councils
Working groups
Professional qualification
committees
Examination committees
Examination centres
Experts
Award of professional
qualifications
Training
Mapping of professions
Working out and
modernization of occupational
requirements
Professional
certificate
Curriculum
Professional
standard
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Estonian Machine, Metal and Apparatus Building Industry
has a positive growth trend.
At the same time the
following aspects must be considered:
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Overall globalisation
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Markets shrinking and
development of integrated production networks
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Increase of quality
demands, greater expectations of clients
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Need for highly
qualified staff
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Appreciation of
resources
Aforementioned changes
have direct influence to competitiveness of enterprises
and force to find solutions of raising up
competitiveness. From this is derived the main idea of
INNOCLUS project, considering clusters and cooperation
networks as means for increasing productivity and
efficiency and therefore also competitive position of
enterprises.
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