Front page News News MDI proposes two new business development companies to Päijät-Häme region MDI proposes two new business development companies to Päijät-Häme region 20.3.2018 MDI has studied organising business development services in Päijät-Häme region during the first months of the year. As a result, a draft version of report was handed out to the clients. The report proposes to new business development companies to be established in Päijät-Häme region. Tourism Promotion Company has been preliminarily named as Visit Lahti and it’s proposed to be established on the basis of existing Lahti Region Company. Visit Lahti’s main objectives include promotion of tourism, marketing and sales in co-operation with SMEs and municipalities in the region with special focus being put on international connections. Business Development Company has been preliminarily named as Lahti Business Region and it’s proposed to be established around existing regional development company called Ladec. Lahti Business Region aims at providing advisory services for setting up start-up companies and changing ownership in SMEs as well as acting as a platform for strategic development projects within the region. News on the webpage of the City of Lahti (in Finnish) Interview with Mr. Eero Holstila, senior advisor of MDI at Radio Finland Lahti (in Finnish) Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design News 5.4.2023 Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith Kirsi Siltanen Laura Väliniemi Implicit norms and structural disadvantages derive from previous innovation policies and therefore policies need to be redesigned. Read more Addressing the Gender and Diversity Paradoxes in Innovation — Towards a More Inclusive Policy Design
A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme News 12.1.2023 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. Read more A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme
MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities News 12.10.2022 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. Read more MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities
