Academic Career-Building in Asia: Empirical Know-How of a Social Scientist Professor Tanel Kerikmäe

Asia in TLS academic life TLS academic activities involve: Afganistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam We have lecturer and Ph.D student from India and many Asian students Guest lecturers from Asia every month

Korean King Sejong Institute since 2015 http://www.ttu.ee/korean-institute-opens-in-tut

Expert opinions: Asian Research Centre, expert House of Commerce, Export Academy Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, member of Council Expert opinions to Parliament and other public offices

Research scholarships: Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship, Nagoya University

Publications:

LECTURING: Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, visiting professor at law school LawTalk conferences with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Kyrgyz National University: visiting professor on EU law

Conferences: India Mysore

Field Work EU funded project, implemented by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) "Support to Judiciary Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic", Bishkek, Head of Component (Constitutional reform), Key legal expert

Academic associations: Migrant Workers in Europe: Practical experience and Regulation. 7th Annual Cambodian Society of Comparative Law (CSCL) Conference "The Normative ASEAN Community from the Comparative Perspective”

Research projects: Title: Institutions for Knowledge Intensive Development: Economic and Regulatory Aspects in South- East Asian Transition Economies Budget: 1,3 million EUR Coordinator: Tallinn University of Technology Partners: Universite de Lausanne (Switzerland) National University of Laos (Lao) Ho Chi Minh City Univeristy of Law (Vietnam) Royal University of Law and Economics (Cambodia)

AIMS: The project seeks to understand the causes and consequences of the differences in the evolution of knowledge intensity of economies, with particular focus on transition countries in South-East Asia. We aim to identify some key micro and macro level institutional incentives for development towards a knowledge economy, and stimuli for capital allocation into knowledge-based investments The project will develop lasting excellence oriented cooperation with South-East Asian universities, and contribute to R&D capacity building based on European academic values.

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