Developing Innovative Business Riga 22.9.2009 Leena Tuomi, Posintra Oy,STOK

Posintra Oy a business development company in Porvoo city, in the East Uusimaa region, 50 km from Helsinki main purpose is to facilitate development and structuring of small and medium sized companies in three active categories: Service activities Electrical Building Services Creative branch including tourism projects www.posintra.fi

STOK – Electrical Building Services Centre 1 (3) STOK Development Centre is a non-profit competence centre for electrical building services STOK is a part of the Posintra company acts as a catalyst, bringing together the industry, academia and the research community, in projects with relevance for the electric building service industry www.stok.fi

STOK – Electrical Building Services Centre 2 (3) Activities in STOK can be divided into four categories: Technology Innovation Energy Efficiency Educational Collaboration   STOK is the associate member of the Ubiquitous Computing Cluster (www.ubi.fi) and Living Business Cluster (www.livingbusiness.fi) The clusters are part of the national Finnish Centre of Expertise Programme (www.oske.net/en/)

STOK – Electrical Building Services Centre 3 (3) Focus: Human-centred electrical and ecological building services Open integration platform for building technology systems Aim 1 year: Demonstration of oSSG (open Source Service Gateway) Aim 5 -10: Homes and buildings are one seamless, functional system

Innovation… … a new way of doing something … introducing new methods, techniques, or practices or new or altered products and services

Innovation arena can be used to find out answers to complex and difficult questions which none of the actors can solve alone the use of cross-sector networking, new collaborations and the handling of multiple subject areas (scientific, technological, and organisational) new innovation topics and systemic innovation activities

Innovation arena sessions focusing on senior living 1(3) 10 innovation arena sessions focusing on senior living in different towns in Finland one day workshop 4-7 hrs: Opening the event and welcoming the attendants Local projects and the problem introduced The report ”Trends and future of senior living in Finland” Group working Summary

Innovation arena sessions focusing on senior living 2(3) Over 360 participants experts, nurses, developers, officers, enterprises, teachers, students and customers = old people and their immediate family some topic related presentations, work groups and summary

Innovation arena sessions focusing on senior living 3 (3) Innovation topics e.g. a website to find out more about how older people can live longer in their home environment and how to assist them in carrying out activities of daily living a buss where you can try out different kinds of everyday’s helpers, like specially designed knives and so on… ”We want to live at our home!”

Developing Innovative Business with customers and end-users to develop user-driven applications as well as for speeding up business innovation and product-to-market processes

Thank you!