Wood product innovators Bioenergyboyz Risto Marius Bayleyegn Producing and marketing wood products in Europe Mikko Jenni Timo Alfred

Enterprises

Enterprises

Forest office of Traun Strengths: Weakness: Recommendations: Unique provider Low costs of assortement 30% better price Weakness: Limited stock Oak-decline Recommendations: Cooperations

Moneral Strengths: New product Unique Weakness: Company not well known Recommendations: More marketing

Ekopine Strengths: Unique product Technical inventions Weakness: Too wide range of products undeveloped national market Recommendations: Cooperation with the national actors

ST Windows Strengths: Modern technology Motivated workers Weakness: Not well known company Recommendations: Keeping good quality Technological development

Eesti Energia Strengths: Weakness: Recommendations: Quite strong enterprise with good management team Well managed distribution network Willingness and opportunity for investments Weakness: Lack of raw material for chipping No chipping machinery and transportation for chips Recommendations: Decreasing the usage of oil shale Find contractors for producing chips Try to use more renewable energy, especially from biomass

Güssing renewable energy Strengths: Providing heat energy and electricity to households, kinder garden hospitals etc Weakness: No weakness because the district has got its energy from the local wood product and from industrial residues and save the money that can be spent for getting energy from other country Recommendations: Sustainable forest management is required for sustainable for sustainable energy supply

K. Šiaulio Strengths: Weakness: Recommendations: Quite a new idea in the area Expanding usage of biofuel in the country Weakness: No chipping machinery No contracts for supplying chipped wood The question of material has to be solved out Recommendations: Make further researches Look for the market Look for wood suppliers Invest in chipping machinery

Conclusions Innovation cases of the group are on different levels Only 25% of the innovations held are implemented and are successfully 3. More investments on innovation have to be held in order to have a successful innovation. 4. Together with improvements on productivity and selling innovations enterprises have possibilities to succeed in competitive markets.