Feasibility study for an Estonian Materials Technology Programme

List of Figures
Figure 1 Characterisation of the selected industry areas in relation to materials technology .................9
Figure 2 How materials technology relates to all the industry sectors discussed in the report ...............17
Figure 3 Materials technology value chain can be roughly divided in four phases . .......................17
Figure 4 Materials technology and development .................................................18
Figure 5 University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology are receiving most of the research
project funding in materials science and technology (note: relative). ...........................19
Figure 6 Venture capital investments by sector according to EVCA . ..................................25
Figure 7 Annual number of Estonian materials technology publications in high impact magazines ...........26
Figure 8 Patenting activity (US/EP/WO) in Estonia between 1993-2010. ...............................29
Figure 9 Breakdown of textile industry sectors by fiber usage in Europe ...............................48
Figure 10 The world of textiles and garments ...................................................49
Figure 11 Characterisation of the selected industry areas in relation to materials technology ................52
Figure 12 Colour codes of Figure 11 ...........................................................52
Figure 13 Characterisation of the selected industry areas in relation to materials technology ................75
List of Tables
Table 1 Amount of Highly educated workforce in industry 2009 .....................................8
Table 2 List of interviewed people during the study ..............................................13
Table 3 Industry associations in Estonia representing industries having relevance from the materials .........24
Table 4 Characterisation of research projects in Estonia ...........................................27
Table 5 Research groups working on different materials and developing technology to different industries ...56
Table 6 The share and amount of highly educated workforce in different industry sectors in 2009 ..........63
Table 7 Estonian materials technology publications in different journals with high impact factors ...........85
Table 8 Authors with most publications relevant to materials technology. .............................86