Berlin, 12 December 2024

Policy Lab contributes to the policy review of the Foreign Trade Strategy of the State of Berlin

The Federal State of Berlin, through the Berlin Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises, has invited Policy Lab to assist in a policy review of its Foreign Trade Strategy. The review will consider methods for selecting areas for international cooperation, and approaches for identifying target countries.

The review will also consider resilience, sustainability, and other factors that guide trade policies and country selection. “Policy Lab will share its experience in identifying export opportunities in different time frames, as well as strategies to reduce import dependences that involve states with geopolitical tensions,” says Marek Tiits, a partner at Policy Lab. The purpose is to gather insights to support adjustments to the Foreign Trade Strategy.

Policy Lab will work with experts from ACCIÓ in Catalonia, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation in Hamburg, Flanders Investment and Trade, and London & Partners.

Tallinn, 7 November 2022

Policy Lab contributes to the development of the AI-on-demand platform for Europe

The European Commission has contracted a consortium led by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft to prepare the development of the AI-on-demand platform for Europe. We’ll carry out a comprehensive requirement analysis for different stakeholder groups, industrial sectors, and public administration. These requirements analyses will lead to an overall roadmap and plan to build and consolidate the AI-on-demand platform. This includes a comprehensive concept to provide trustworthy AI assets into the platform to support European leadership on trustworthy AI.

Eventually, the AI-on-demand platform will support the wide uptake of trustworthy AI “made in Europe”. It will serve the needs of both public administrations as well as the major industrial sectors in Europe in the large-scale deployment of trustworthy artificial intelligence.

The team that we collaborate with on this assignment involves several prominent research and industrial partners, such as Aalto University, University College Cork, Telenor, Siemens, SAP and EIT Digital.

Tallinn, 3 September 2020

Policy Lab and EY launch an Estonian export competitiveness initiative

The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Enterprise Estonia have contracted Policy Lab and EY to advise on export development prospects for Estonia.

Small catching up countries are very dependent on trade. Yet, the recent months have shown that previously unforeseen trade barriers can emerge very rapidly. Globally, the #covid19 pandemic has disrupted 75% of supply chains; and we are likely to continue to experience a highly turbulent international business environment. In this context, the success of businesses is defined by agility in detection and entry into new growth markets, and in rethinking business models.

Policy Lab’s advanced data analytics tools prove especially useful in the current business environment. Our analytical toolbox allows for timely market intelligence on the on-going restructuring of global value chains and new export opportunities this brings about.

UPDATE! The full report of Estonian export study 2021, with an executive summary in English on pp 9-13, has been made public.

Tallinn, 1 July 2019

Policy Lab initiates the development of the Industrial Competitiveness Atlas

Specialisation and trade fuel productivity growth and capitalist economic development. Detailed and regularly updated international trade data is a rich source to detect new rapidly growing new markets and overall dynamism in global markets. The Industrial Competitiveness Atlas integrates the latest achievements in economic research and machine learning in order to generate meaninful insights for development of industrial strategies. With better understanding of global market developments and respective alignment of business strategies, the resources are focussed to development of products and services that can be provided with highest value added, thus increasing value creation and sustainable growth in private sector.

We are grateful to the Norway Grants Green ICT Programme (small grant EU53315) for the support.