INNOVATION, FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, & ENGINE PROJECT Irek Defée Tampere University of Technology Tampere, Finland

FINLAND COUNTRY - GEOGRAPHY km2 10% lakes 80% forests rocky terrain limited resources

COUNTRY - POPULATION 5.4 mln people 6% swedish speaking Sami minority Lapland History

COUNTRY – HISTORY … …..

COUNTRY – ECONOMY Difficult natural conditions GDP €/m Unemployment 8.5% Export 53 mld € Public debt 57% PKB Economic growth Public debt

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Unveiled 2013 Structural character Decline of several industrial sectors: - Paper - Ship-building - Nokia Too little industrial diversification SME sector too small Public sector lagging: too costly

WHY HAS NOKIA FALLEN? Nokia growth phase Leading corporation phase Phase of operational signs of decline Systemic factors – decline inevitable? What remains is NSN: Nokia Solutions and Networks, cellular infrastructure company with significant resources

EDUCATION AND R&D SECTOR R&D sector is 3.7% GDP: - total 7 mld € - in which1.4 mld € university part - world leading Higher education is only public - limits on the number of students - financial support for students - study time is becoming restricted

INNOVATION SECTOR Finland has a highly advanced innovation organisation system: - National Technology Agency TEKES supports development - Academy of Finland – academic research financing - State Research Center VTT

INNOVATION ENHANCEMENT Critical evaluation: No top-class applied innovation in Fin/EU (Google-likes) University sector behind One top university created: - Aalto University Helsinki Huge emphasis on university startups - creation of environment - reorganization of studies

Saturday, September 12, 2015 Digital Media Laboratory TUT Faculty of Computer and Electrical Engineering

UNIVERSITIES – CURRENT STATUS Reforms: organisational, structure, financing, education Organisation - Legal independence e.g. foundation - Foundation capital - State financing negotiable - Profesorowie employed by foundation - Infrastructure rented from state

CURRENT STATUS Faculties and departments Department – profit center – min. 10 professors New staff recruitment: Tenure track 4- levels, global search Results evaluated on a very broad basis Bureacracy and formalization increased

EDUCATION System had huge number of choices, this has been eliminated Reduction of courses by 50% Computer engineering not popular Reductions of personnel Master level studies exclusively in English till 2020 New concept for education in development

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY students, personnel from abroad Budget 148 mln €, 50% external sources Foundation capital 137 mln € Faculties: Computing and Electrical Engineering Engineering Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences Faculty of Business and Built Environment

COMPUTING AND EE Departaments: - Electronics and Communications Engineering - Department of Signal Processing - Department of Electrical Engineering - Department of Pervasive Computing

TUT INNOVATION ENHANCEMENT New concept for education Creating innovative environment Emphasis on creativity and startups Startups - part of study process

KAMPUSARENA

DEPARTMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING - 12 Professors - Total Personnel ~ MSc/y -10 PhD/y -Budget 6 mln €/y

Department of Signal Processing Digital Signal Processing Image and Video Processing Speech and Audio MAJOR AREAS Multimedia ComputationalSystems Biology, Health Informatics

MULTIMEDIA NEW FORMS OF INTERACTION MUSIC PROCESSING MAJOR AREAS CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL VIDEO COMPRESSION, 3D

INNOVATION IN SIGNAL PROCESSING EDUCATION INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS SIGNAL PROCESSING INNOVATION PROJECT ACCEPTING OF MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses)

COOPERATION WITH WROCŁAW NATURAL INTERFACES FACE EXPRESSIONS/ EYE TRACKING EXPANDING THE RANGE OF GESTURES TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS

NATURAL INTERACTION BASED ON VISUAL/ACOUSTICAL I/O VISUAL: - BODY GESTURES KINECT - HAND GESTURE INTEL ICC - HAND GESTURE LEAP MOTION - FACE EXPRESSIONS ???

APPLICATIONS SKELETON FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE APPLICATIONS OUTSIDE UI AND GAMING - REHABILITATION - TRAINING

Kiitos – Thank you - Dziękuję