OREANDA-NEWS. October 08, 2010. A forum held at the Tallinn University of Technology on Monday was the first of over a hundred seminars, workshops and other events across the country as part of Entrepreneurship Week, a project designed to help would-be business owners get their ideas off the ground.

Most Entrepreneurship Week events will be taking place in Tallinn, Tartu, Narva and Parnu, though some will also be hosted in small towns and rural areas.

According to the national support institution for businesses, Enterprise Estonia, 43 percent of Estonian residents would like to have their own business, although only 8 percent actually do, and 5 percent are considering starting one up, ERR television news reported.

Last year more than 13,000 people took part in Entrepreneurship Week events in Estonia, the HEI innovation journal's website wrote.