Research Programme on Business Know-how

Opening Seminar

Academy of Finland

10.2.2006

Academy of Finland invests in the development of

business know-how

• Academy of Finland provides funding for– research projects, – research programmes, – centres of excellence in research, – researcher training, – international cooperation, – research posts for Academy Professors and Academy

Research Fellows

General aims for research programme Liike2

• To develop research environments• To coordinate scattered research capacities• To increase interdisciplinarity• To develop coordination between researchers,

funding bodies and end-users of research results

• To generate substantial added value• To develop new national and international

cooperation between researchers

Themes of Liike2 for 2006-2009

• Innovations, knowledge, know-how and commercialisation in business activities

• Local, regional and global dimensions of business know-how

• Business know-how in new business growth and entrepreneurship

• Business regeneration and change• Business environment and social

responsibility

• To strengthen research in business know-how

• To improve the societal and economic applicability of business know-how

• To promote national and international research cooperation

• To strengthen researcher training and research careers

Specific aims

How business know-how serves

as a pillar of Finnish society

alongside technological and social innovations