Preliminary impact assessment speeds up the development of Pirkanmaa Start-up Alliance

In Pirkanmaa, the development of the start-up ecosystem aims to diversify the region’s business structure and new business activities, as well as promoting internationalisation, improved vitality and increased tax revenues. At the same time, the need to bring together the services, funding, networks and platforms of public actors to promote start-up policies has been recognised as fundamental in relation to achieving these goals. An alliance of public actors was created in 2017 by Pirkanmaa Regional Council, the City of Tampere, and what was then Tampere University of Applied Sciences, the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology (now T3), as well as the Pirkanmaa TE Office, Pirkanmaa ELY Centre and the Pirkanmaa Hospital District. The aim was to create a model of cooperation between different actors.

We facilitated the preliminary impact assessment process for the Pirkanmaa Start-up Alliance and prepared an evaluation report to support decision-making in the development and implementation phases of the Alliance. The purpose of the preliminary impact assessment was to structure and clarify the goals and implementation options of the start-up alliance. The work was carried out as an interactive process with the start-up alliance actors. During the process, a proactive impact assessment model was developed to illustrate the development and impact of the start-up ecosystem. In addition, the work assessed the various impacts of forming an alliance from the perspective of alliance organisations and their decision-making, as well as from the various associated human, economic and environmental aspects involved.

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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A new project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture will explore multi-locality from the point of view of companies and their employers: is place-independence becoming the future norm of successful companies?

Although remote working and place-independent work have already been examined extensively from both the public administration implications and individual perspectives,…

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