MERIT

As technology continues to transform our societies, cybersecurity has become one of the most critical pillars of national and regional resilience. Around the world, nations are investing in safeguarding their digital infrastructures, but for the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) this mission carries particular significance.

At TalTech’s MERIT Learning Factory, students and researchers can now work hands-on with the MiR100 mobile robot, a state-of-the-art platform that brings together robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The latest edition of World AI Week once again turned the Dutch capital into a global meeting point for artificial intelligence. With more than 7,000 researchers, innovators, and policymakers gathered across dozens of sessions, the event reaffirmed AI’s growing role as an infrastructure for science, industry, and society.

The business press loves to celebrate the unicorn that springs from a garage or the multinational that reinvents itself with a shiny new product. Yet many of those headline stories wither after the first market shock, while quieter firms keep compounding returns. What distinguishes the long‑run winners is not a single breakthrough but the ecosystem they manage to build around it—a living network of partners, suppliers, start‑ups, universities, investors, and regulators that learns and scales together.