{"id":179529,"date":"2025-07-30T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/?p=179529"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:06:29","slug":"how-can-startups-contribute-to-national-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/how-can-startups-contribute-to-national-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"How can startups contribute to national defence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This time, Kuku Radio\u2019s \u201cEttev\u00f5tlusminutid\u201d, a radio show dedicated on entrepreneurship, focused on why it is important for startups and technology companies to contribute to national defence and how the NATO DIANA accelerator supports strengthening defence capabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion also covered Estonian companies that have successfully completed the NATO DIANA acceleration program and have already secured significant investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the conversation touched on the upcoming Defence Innovation Day, which will take place on September 22 at Kultuurikatel. The event is open to all interested participants \u2014 more information and registration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/sundmused\/defence-innovation-day-138837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guest on the show was Sabina S\u00e4gi, Community and Communications Manager at NATO DIANA\u2019s Estonian accelerator. The show was hosted by Ingela Virkus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the invitation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the episode (in Estonian):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Kuidas iduettev\u00f5tted ja tehnoloogiafirmad saaksid riigikaitsesse panustada?\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7nJfMqP8Rht2DLEDE6QvsI?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, Kuku Radio\u2019s \u201cEttev\u00f5tlusminutid\u201d, a radio show dedicated on entrepreneurship, focused on why it is important for startups and technology companies to contribute to national defence and how the NATO DIANA accelerator supports strengthening defence capabilities. The discussion also covered Estonian companies that have successfully completed the NATO DIANA acceleration program and have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":179524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[182,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startup-incubator","category-dual-use-and-defence-technologies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179530,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179529\/revisions\/179530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}