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HOW 2 SUPPORT INNOVATIONS - Case Helsinki Economic Development Forum Tallinn 8th October 2009
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2. ABOUT CITY OF HELSINKI Almost 40 000 employees
Budget of about 4 billion €
Local municipal tax
Great varition of sectors and services provided
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3. The Employed Labour Force and Regional Gross Domestic Product
Helsinki Region in
Moving annual avarage
Source: Statistics Finland
City of Helsinki Urban Facts

4. SUPPORTING INNOVATIONS IN THE REGION
Strategic Basis
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5. CASE CULMINATUM INNOVATION LTD
Development company of Helsinki Region, founded 1995
40 employees
Innovations & networking
9 Centres of Expertise in Helsinki Region
3 Local development teams
Independent development plattform
Triple helix –ownership
Funding: municipalities,
ministry of employment
and economy, projects
Science Community 34%
Universities
Polytechnics
Research institutions
Municipalities 43%
Uusimaa Regional Council
City of Espoo
City of Helsinki
City of Vantaa
Business Community 23%
Chamber of Commerce
Science Parks
Companies
Financial institutions

6. CENTRES OF EXPERTISE & CULMINATUM
Thematic microclusters
Tourism
cluster
Cleantech
cluster
A club called Finland
Living cluster
Food development
cluster
CULMINATUM
Living Labs
Ubiquitous computing cluster
Health and well-being
Cluster
Digital
contents
cluster
HealthBio cluster
Nano
cluster
Plattforms for open innovation
Networking and matching

7. FORUM VIRIUM HELSINKI MISSION
Forum of the Forces
We create customer need driven, internationally competitive digital services in the Helsinki metropolitan region in collaboration between companies, public bodies and citizens.
SME partnership program
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8. HELSINKI LIVING LAB Learning by Living
RESEARCH
Living Labs are real life development platforms for…
testing the services with user communities in their own living environment
open and co-creative innovation
involving the user communities in the development processes
resulting in more acceptable solutions and better success rate
R&D
BUSINESS
Living Labs
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9. OTHER MEANS TO SUPPORT INNOVATIONS
PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS
BUSINESS INCUBATORS
INNOVATIVE CITY –PROGRAMME
CITY PLANNING IN ORDER TO PROMOTE INTERACTION 9 9
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10. Cornerstones of the Finnish Innovation Environment
CONSENSUS
CO-OPERATION, NETWORKING
Universities – enterprises and Government – business interaction
Integration of technology foresight, public research funding and industrial R&D funding
Regional – national – international co-operation
TRUST
Incorruptibility
Strategic partnerships; industrial, academic and public-private
Delegation of power to decide, straight budget lines
Independent role of funding agencies 10
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THANK YOU 4 YOUR ATTENTION City of Helsinki Business Development Minna Maarttola Development Manager 11
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