SCIENCETWIN CITY

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SCIENCE-TWIN CITY PROJECT PROPOSALS
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Baltic Sea-KR
Balti

• Baltic Sea-KR (Knowledge Region)
• Project is being implemented within Regions of
  Knowledge (FP 6) pilot action launched by the
  European Commission
• A two-year project, started in January, 2004
• Partner regions Hamburg, Øresund, Helsinki
• Partner organisations
• Hamburg Innovation (HI)/TuTech
• Øresund University (Copenhagen and Lund)
• Culminatum Ltd Oy

 
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Web site www.bskr.org
Baltic Sea-KR

• Objectives
• To improve the outreach of regionally based
  clusters and their achievements (Baltic Sea
  Region Web based Knowledge Portal) To improve
  access to early stage finance (by facilitating
  personal links between financiers and business
  angels on an inter-regional basis) To establish
  dialogue between policymakers responsible for
  innovation in the regions (with regard to the
  development of competence clusters in the
  regions)
• Focus clusters Life Science (medical
  technologies), ICT (software),Innovative
  Logistics
• To expand the membership to other regions in the
  Baltic Sea area (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
  Poland)
• the ultimate goal is to have a well functioning
  inter-connected regional innovation support
  system linking the Baltic Sea region as a whole

 
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Regional Brain Gain Project

• The ambition To understand if there is a
  difference in the value pattern of individual
  knowledge holders in Estonia compared with
  researched knowledge holders in Finland (Capital
  region, Tampere region, Oulu region)
• The suggested project outline
• Initial desk research
• Quantitative survey of the target individuals (a
  large enough sample to generate 1 000 1 500
  replies)
• In-depth qualitative interviews
• Final analysis and syntheses leading to
• policy-focused conclusions

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Regions, Cities, Science and Economy

• Interregional co-operation of regional and urban
  authorities together with science and economy
  for realisation of the knowledge society RCSE
• Lead ApplicantProf. Dr. Rudolf
  SchaeferUniversity of Technology Berlin
• Network as a type of operation, urban and
  regional development as a topic
• To be financed by Interreg IIIC (deadline
  September, 2004)

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Regions, Cities, Science and Economy

• InputQuestions to be answered for creation and
  realisation of the knowledge society
• OutputsAnswers to the questionsMore knowledge
  and understanding about the role of politics,
  administrations, science and economy in the
  knowledge societyBetter co-operation,
  communication, dissemination and marketing of
  knowledge within and between the partners

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• Outputs
• Handbook for foundation and management of
  knowledgeCreation of competence centres for
  knowledge managementCommon internet platform for
  exchange of experience and co-operation
• ResultsNew understanding and development of
  knowledge milieus, Long term interregional
  co-operation of all partners in cities and
  regions on
• a transnational and interregional level,
• contribution to economic growth and
• social cohesion

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Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy Project

• Focus Identification and application of the best
  practices and means available for city
  administration in promoting knowledge intensive
  industries and supporting universities, science
  and technology parks and business incubators in
  innovation creation
• Metropolises' added value
• Critical brain mass
• Concentration of know-how
• Informal networking
• Tacit knowledge sharing
• Innovation creation

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Program for entrepreneurship SMEs

• An idea from Helsinki School of Economics, Small
  Business Center
• Development of training programs and teaching
  materials
• Academic Entrepreneur program
• Exchange of students, instructors and professors
• Training sessions of three days programs in two
  modules
• Total 33858 eur

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Grid Technology Project

• An idea from NICPB
• The development of Grid technology in
  collaboration with NICPB (National Institute of
  Chemical Physics and Biophysics) in Tallinn and
  HIP (Helsinki Institute of Physics) in Helsinki
• The Grid marks the IT system that can coordinate
  resources that are not subject to a centralized
  control using standard, open, general-purpose
  protocols and interfaces deliver nontrivial
  qualities of service
• Using Estonian and Finnish electronic ID-cards
  (SmartCard) on the Grid, medical and
  environmental calculations on the Grid, particle
  physics calculations and genetic information
  analyse, etc.

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Grid Technology Project

• Objective The first objective is to strengthen
  and intensify the collaboration in Grid
  technology between the scientific and
  technological institutions in Helsinki and
  Tallinn
• Building up and test a small Grid system between
  NICPB and HIP and share the experiences and
  needed know-how to the other institutions and the
  bigger Grid systems
• united Grid seminars and lectures at the
  institutes
• exchange the specialists, scientists and students
  in this area

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Business Polytechnic cooperation with Concordia
University

• Helia offers studies in the following degree
  programmes
• Business and administration programmes
• Business IT programmes
• Management assistant and journalism programmes
• Programme in tourism
• An international developmental research project
  in a starting phase in coordination with the
  University of Alicante in Spain and the
  Università degli Studi di Genova in Italy
• The project aims at creating new forms of virtual
  teamwork in international working environment

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Nano-Technology Project

• Partners NICPB (National Institute of Chemical
  Physics and Biophysics), HIP (Helsinki Institute
  of Physics) in Helsinki and Nanoteknologian Tuki
  ry in Finland
• Cooperation network in the area of nanotechnology
• Mapping of nanotechnology projects in Helsinki
  and Tallinn
• Budget 12 000 EUR

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Master thesis investigation of small enterprises

• Business capabilities of inventors and SMEs
  contributing towards commercialization of
  inventions in different economic environments
• Developing a model of business capabilities
  contributing positively to commercialization of a
  high-tech innovation The primary research
  questions are
• What are the business capabilities, which
  inventors and small entrepreneurs have used in
  successfully commercializing their inventions
  internationally by means of licensing?
• Are there any differences in the business
  capabilities used in commercializing an
  innovation in established market economies and in
  transition economies?