MDI scanned business services

MDI drafted a summary of publicly supported services for innovation, international operations, and start-up companies in the Finnish regions. The study focused on the services provided by the member organisations of the Finnish Science Park Association Tekel and the Association of Regional Business Development Companies SEKES, Regional Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, universities and universities of applied science – 130 organisations in total. To sum up, these organisations have allocated 2 261 working years and use 224 million euro annually to business services. The study was ordered by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy (TEM) and the Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM). The study was financed by the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in North Ostrobothnia (Oulu).

The study was published as an online publication by TEM in November 2012 (in Finnish).

 

TEMjul_45_2012_web.pdf

A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme

AGDA is a Nordic development project funded by the Nordic Gender Equality Fund (NIKK). The project focuses on the opportunities that a greater focus on diversity and inclusion could create in the RDI-field, particularly in respect of green transition.

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MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities

The challenge bundle work is the cross-cutting co-development of the “Sustainable City” programme, co-ordinated by the Ministry of the Environment, with the aim of producing and sharing information, knowledge and solutions to the challenges linking cities’ management and practice in the area of leading work towards sustainability. The work produces concrete development measures, new ways of doing things and peer learning.

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