QUIN network of creative and innovative women

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QUIN network of creative and
innovative women

• Anne-Mari Rannamäe
• NGO QUIN-Estonia President
• WWW.quinest.ee

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QUIN-network

• Was established 1992 in Sweden
• Qvinnliga Uppfinnare I Norden (Innovative Women
  in the North) is connecting about 900 innovative
  women in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and
  Norway
• www.quinnetwork.com
• QUIN-Estonia was registered in April 2001
• www.quinest.ee

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Why was QUIN established ?

• Only about 1-2 of the inventors are women
• Associations of inventors do not attract women
  (there are very few women inventors)
• Men cannot to promote inventive activities for
  women (question of identity, lack of knowledge on
  women)

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• Men do not understand women affairs (lack of
  interest and pursuit)
• Many women do not consider themselves as
  inventors (even patent owners question of
  identity)
• Women have ideas but it is not their traditional
  behaviour to commercialize ideas

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Expected results of QUIN activities

• Women inventors and their contribution to overall
  development will be brought to the public agenda.
  Valuable inventive and innovative female role
  models will be put on the spotlight
• Talented women in the participating countries
  will become motivated to launch new activities
  and to start new invention-based businesses
  whereby being equipped with skills necessary for
  the protection of their intellectual property and
  for starting business (4-5 female inventors in
  Sweden and Finland today)

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• Womens professional choices, career
  opportunities and prospects will widen leading to
  the full use of womens creativity and their so
  far now underused potentials
• A supportive environment will be created
  providing women motivations to use their creative
  and innovative talents for the benefit of
  themselves, their families and communities

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• The innovative perspective will be introduced
  into the womens empowerment context and the
  general culture surrounding womens endeavours
  and aspirations
• Creation of efficiently functioning network and
  working partnership between women inventors along
  the Nordic-Baltic direction and world wide
  dimension
• Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network
  was established in London, 2003.
• www.gwiin.ee

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ICT. Facts about Estonia Estonia has nearly 1,3
million inhabitants

• Estonia has E- government (100 workplaces have
  computers)
• 95 of banking operations are carried out
  electronically
• In 2004 (income year 2003), 59 of natural income
  declarations where declared electronically. This
  year about 70 declarations
• Usage of mobile parking constitutes approximately
  50 of total income gathered from parking fees

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• Mobile phone penetration is approximately 90
• 58 of the working population aged 25-49 are
  using Internet
• 90 of the young people 12-24 are the most active
  Internet users
• 2/3 of the children 6-9 use the web.
• These are good presumptions for quick ICT
  development in Estonia and for better networking
  between other countries worldwide. Thank you!