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SHOKStrategic Centers for Science,
Technology and Innovation
World-class breakthroughs in innovation cooperation
Renewal and competitiveness as goals cooperation
The goals of SHOK activities are: To increase export business and to improve the
economy To create to top know-how To renew business activities To improve companies' competitiveness To spur innovation activities To bring wellbeing to society
• The goal is to give rise to globally significant breakthrough innovations and business activities with the help of new knowledge and skills.
SHOKs are an internationally interesting operational model.
Six different industrial branches
Energy and environment Bioeconomy
Metal products and machine production
Built Environments Health and wellbeingInformation and
communications industry
The activities of each SHOK concentration is handled by a non-profit seeking limited company whose members include the key companies, universities, and research institutes of the area in question.
Includes 80% of Finland's export business
• SHOKs operate in the most important fields in Finnish business and society.
• Entities that are not shareholders can also take part in the research programmes and projects.
• Taking part are more than 700 companies and 40 research organisations.activities
SHOKs are company-driven collaboration platforms
SHOK compa
ny
Enterprises &
research organisatio
ns
The shareholders draft a research strategy and decide on its implementation.
The activities are based on a shared research strategy
SHOKResearch strategies
SHOKResearch
programmes
Research organisatio
ns
Companies
Research programmes are a central part of SHOK activities
•SHOK research programmes allow for persevering cooperation.
•Companies utilise researched information emerging from the SHOK research programmes. This leads to new products, services, earning models and courses of action for renewing Finland's business base while creating new export business activities.
•The time line is 5-10 years.
5–10 years.
Economic growth &wellbeing
Top know-howEmerges from SHOK
research programmes
New products and servicesDevelop in companies'
R&D projects
Based on cooperation of public and private entities
Responsible for operative
implementation
SKOK boards
Responsible for strategy, focus areas
and results
Research and
Innovation
Council Ministries
Funders
SHOK Management Team
Fund and supervise quality
Lays out SHOK concept as part of an innovation system
Follows SHOK activities and results, gives proposals for development, evaluates possibilities for further activities
Direct activitiesthrough i.a. Tekes
and the Academy ofFinland
SHOKs amass significant investments
50%40%
10%
Funding for research programmes in 2008-2014 a combined € 545 M
SHOK companies are diversifying the capital base (EU, other instruments for bringing products/services to the market).
According to the strategic programme of the government of Finland the public funding for SHOK research programmes will be run down. Consequently Tekes funding instrument for SHOK programmes will cease to exist in its present form.
SHOK activities are regularly evaluated
CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT
FUNDERSSHOK programme level
• SHOK quality criteria• External evaluation panels
SHOK MANAGEMENT TEAMSHOK corporate level
• Annual reporting to SHOK Management Team
• Handling applications from new consortia
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION COUNCIL
SHOK concept level• External evaluationat five-year intervals
SHOK COMPANIE
S•
Management • Measures
of results for programmes
In SHOKs companies direct research in extensive cooperation.
Company
Publicfunders
ResearchersUniversities
Research institutes
Researchnetworks
Companynetworks
Tekes programmes
Sitra
Academy of
Finland program
mes
Academy of Finland
projectfunding
Tekes project funding
SRC
Finnish Industr
y Investment Ltd
Finnvera
Basic research
Applied research
Product developme
nt
Market
SHOK programme has its own role in R&D&I environment
Targeting of R&D&I funding and defining content
SHOK researc
h programmes
SHOKs develop
Five key development targets have been set for SHOK activities:
1Focusing activities on sharper peaks of skills to bring forth new business activities.
Renewing the models and gauges for evaluation4
Networkingplatform to be formed out of SHOKs for companiesand for top research2 Increasing
competition for funding.3
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