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1 Finland Finland Population: 5.4 million, 15.8 inhabitants per km² lakes 70% of land area covered by forest Economic structure: Services 67%, industry 30%, agriculture 3%, exports account for 39% of GDP account for 39 % of GDP % of GDP, industry 30 %, agriculture 3 %; exports Climate: Great contrasts cold winters and fairly warm summers (2010 extremes: coldest day in Kuhmo -41,3 C/-44.9 F, warmest day in Joensuu 37.2 C/87.8 F) Key features: High standard of education, High investments and strong efforts in area of R&D and innovation 1

2 Public sector activities of R&D&I in Finland PARLIAMENT Research and Innovation Council Ministry of Education and Culture GOVERNMENT Ministry of Employment and the Economy Other ministries and their institutes Academy of Finland Universities Tekes VTT Sitra Finnvera plc Finpro Finnish Industry Investment Ltd Regional ELY Centres 2

3 Public funding organisations in the Finnish innovation environment Academy of Finland 327 Tekes 570 Ministries, ELY Centres, sectoral research 490 Finnish Industry Investment 57 Sitra 28 Finnvera 853 Basic research Applied research Business R&D Business development Marketing Internationalisation 7/5/15 The figures represent R&D THINK and FINLAND innovation resources in million euros in

4 Strengths of the Finnish innovation environment 1. Wide consensus in the Finnish innovation policy Political consensus Industries and trade unions Public - private partnerships 2. Good balance in innovation measures Goals: economy environment wellbeing Funding targets: basic applied industrial research development Marriage of R&D investments and Venture Capital investments 3. Co-operation networking Universities enterprises Large companies SMEs (strategic partnerships) National - regional international networking Between actors in the innovation system well balanced and dynamic public innovation service system Strategic Centres of in Science, Technology and Innovation International innovation network and foresight activities 4

5 R&D investments in some countries Percentage of GDP Source: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators 5 DM

6 WEF The Global Competitiveness Report Finland Health and primary education rank 1. Higher education and training rank 1. Availability of latest technologies rank 1. Innovation rank 1. Institutions rank 1. Property rights rank 1. Intellectual property protection rank 1. Irregular payments and bribes (= corruption) rank 2. Transparency of government policymaking rank 2. 6

7 Sino-Finnish Joint Programs & Labs Research Programme Co-operation on: Neuroscience ( ) with China and Canada Environmental Ecology ( ) Sustainable Energy ( ) Ubiquitous Computing & Diversity of Communication ( ) Signal Processing and Computational Sciences ( ) Inverse Problems ( ) with China and Germany Climate Change ( ) with China and Russia Immunology ( ) with China and Germany Forest Research ( ) Comparative Law ( ) Human Mind ( ) Sino-Finnish Joint Labs: Aalto-Tongji Design Factory, Shanghai Sino-Finnish Environmental Research Center Nanjing University Sino-Finland Life Science Centre, Wuhan University Sino-Finnish Education Research Center, Beijing Normal University 7

8 Academy of Finland & China Long-term partnerships relations (agreements since 1982) NSFC National Natural Science Foundation of China CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences CASS Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Researcher mobility short term visits for up to few months Joint projects 3-4 year joint projects with joint planning and management Research programmes set of projects funded 4 years under a common theme, e.g. NEURO, Climate Change, etc... Annual Calls for Applications about EUR 2 million / year Joint application submission and evaluation, foreign peer review process Around 50 Joint Research Projects and EUR 15 million since 2002 Appilcation guidelines: & 8 THINK FINLAND 7/5/15 8

9 China Network in R&D&I National level MoU s State agreement S&T 1986; MOST MEE (Tekes) - China-Finland Nano Innovation Center 2011; MOST MEE - China-Finland Cleantech SME Cooperation 2013; MOST -Tekes - Beautiful Beijing 2013; Tekes - MEP - Comprehensive Co-operation in Education 2015; MoE - MoEC 5-year Tekes MoU s Beijing S&T Commission (2007, renewed 2012) Shanghai S&T Commission (since 2005, renewed 2010) Jiangsu Province S&T Department (2007, renewed 2012) Zhejiang S&T Department (2009, renewed 2013) University agreements Tsinghua University Finlab program 2014 Fudan University ilab program (MAP program) 2012 Tongji University 2011 (5 years) 9

10 Tekes China Joint Calls Tekes MOST China-Finland Cleantech SME Cooperation 2013 MoU for three years period MOST has budjet for national level collaboration Jiangsu & Zhejiang have separate budget for joint project. Funding could be used also other industrial sectors than cleantech 1. Energy conservation and energy efficiency (including industrial energy saving, green building, renewable energy, etc.) 2. Comprehensive utilization of waste 3. Pollutant controlling 4. Haze governance 5. Water treatment 10

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