Mare Kitsnik

What Mare Kitsnik does

ETIS (Estonian Research Information System) is the national, government-operated research information portal of Estonia, owned by the Ministry of Education and Research and managed by the Estonian Research Agency. Headquartered at Soola 8, Tartu 51013, the platform functions as the central authoritative database for R&D activity in the country, serving Estonian universities, research institutions, and individual researchers including professors and academic staff. End users access it at etis.ee for both compliance reporting and research discovery. The system is classified as a government state entity rather than a commercial company.

Name

Mare Kitsnik

Legal name

Estonian Research Information System (ETIS)

Website

https://www.etis.ee

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ETIS is a government-owned web portal operated by the Estonian Research Agency under Estonia's Ministry of Education and Research, providing centralized cataloging of Estonian R&D institutions, researchers, projects, publications, and research infrastructure. No commercial revenue model exists.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Research Information Management

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Research Administration & Compliance (Sponsored Programs, IRB/REB) (EDADAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Compliance, Policy Management, Audits & Incident Response (Education) (EDAFALAL)

Keywords

• Research information system
• R&D institution registry
• Academic publication database
• Research project management
• Scientific infrastructure catalog

Headquarters

HQ city

Tallinn

HQ country

Estonia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Estonian Research Information System (ETIS) is a state-administered web portal that serves as Estonia's central registry of R&D institutions, research projects, publications, defended theses, scientific equipment, and research ethics approvals. It enables annual R&D data submission, supervision activity tracking, and publication cataloging by R&D institutions, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Estonian Research Council, and individual researchers via role-based access.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ETIS Research Information Portal Centralized web portal that maintains data on Estonian R&D institutions, research projects, publications, defended theses, scientific equipment, supervision activities, and research ethics approvals, with role-based access for R&D institutions, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Estonian Research Council, and individual researchers; supports annual R&D data submission and reporting cycles.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Ministry of Education and ResearchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Estonian Research Information System is owned by the Ministry of Education and Research and managed by the Estonian Research Agency. The Ministry provides governance and policy direction while the Estonian Research Agency handles operational management.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Pure (Elsevier): Pure is a commercial research information management system used by universities globally to track researchers, publications, projects, and activities. It is the most direct commercial analog to ETIS, serving the same core use case of centralized R&D information management.
• Symplectic Elements (Digital Science): Symplectic Elements is a research information management platform that aggregates publications, grants, and profile data for academic institutions. It competes directly with ETIS's institutional and personnel tracking functions at the university level.
• Dimensions: Dimensions is a research information platform that links publications, grants, patents, and clinical trials. Its global scope of integrated research metadata is conceptually equivalent to ETIS's ambition of being a single registry for R&D activity.
• Atira (lunaris): Atira's lunaris is a research information management system deployed at Nordic universities to track publications, projects, and research output. It overlaps with ETIS's institutional research-administration functionality in a similar Northern European context.

Emerging players

• VIVO: VIVO is an open-source semantic web platform for researcher profiles and collaboration networks. It addresses the same research-personnel and institution-visibility problem ETIS tackles, though typically adopted at the individual-institution level rather than at national scale.

Regional players

• CRIStin (Norwegian Social Science Data Services / current research information system for Norway): CRIStin is the Swedish national research information system that tracks research outputs, projects, and personnel across Swedish universities. It is the closest regional counterpart to ETIS in terms of national coverage of R&D activity.
• NSD (Norwegian Centre for Research Data): NSD is the Norwegian national infrastructure for research data management including a research information system. It parallels ETIS as a national government-affiliated research information registry in a neighboring Nordic country.

Broad incumbents

• CORDIS (European Commission): CORDIS is the EU's public repository for funded research projects and results. It is a broader incumbent that overlaps with ETIS's project and publication tracking but at the EU rather than national level.
• OpenAIRE: OpenAIRE is an EU-wide open science infrastructure supporting research information discovery, open access, and data sharing. It competes with ETIS in the areas of publication tracking and research informatics at the supranational level.
• UKRI (UK Research and Innovation): UKRI is the UK's national research funding and policy body that operates research information systems for UK institutions. It is a broader incumbent analogous to ETIS as a national research administration authority, but at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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