Anu Nuut

Tallinn University of Technology | TTU · Virumaa College

Innovation and IP protection in Business. An enterprise would be well positioned to benefit from innovation if it takes into consideration from the initial stage of the new product development process the full range of IP issues. Patent documents provide useful information on the state-of the art, which would enable an enterprise to avoid unnecessa...

Purpose-Consultants and technological and management consultancy are a part of systemic relationships between invention, innovation and in particular the institutions which are present in a geographical or sectoral space which support and moderate the behavior of innovation actors. The purpose of this paper is to examine how companies use the help...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the development of practice and application of standards in Estonian research libraries. Design/methdology/approach The paper describes the following themes: evaluation of library performance; library performance measures: impact and outcome; and current developments in Estonia. Findings...

The electronic era of the 21 st century has brought changes to the libraries' working environment and acquisition of information resources that in turn presupposes the implementation of new strategies, change of structures and devising new acquisition principles. In the modern information society libraries have a new role and there are various type...

The importance of economy, efficiency and effective- ness of library performance set us new goals in the library management and decision-making processes. Performance measurement and quality appraisal are important and useful for libraries of every type. Library performance evaluation is a political process, because it includes allocation of resour...

The paper will focus on the following aspects: • Effectiveness of a library's development activities based on collaboration between Estonian libraries and other libraries with international co-operation • Library performance measurement and librarianship standardisation • Possibilities for applying performance measurement and benchmarking methods i...