Business Finland funding for Leading Companies and Ecosystems
Business Finland has launched launched challenge competitions in which companies with international operations agreed to resolve significant future challenges and increase their research, development and innovation investments in Finland. If successful, these projects will lead to additional investments of several billion euros in Finland. The proposed projects were to solve significant future challenges and have a remarkable impact on the RDI (Research, Development and Innovation) target of 4% and the employment target of 75% laid down in the Government Programme.
The winning companies have committed to increasing their RDI investments in Finland cumulatively by almost 1.5 billion euro in total. In addition, the leading companies were to boost RDI cooperation with research organisations and SMEs.
BoostECO's role in veturi & leading companies collaboration
Conversations with each of the leading companies and analyzing the needs
Coaching SMEs for cooperation with leading companies
Leading companies' programs
Finland’s goal is to be a pioneering carbon-neutral country by 2035, which means it must foster a massive growth in the share of renewable energy. As both a major challenge and a great opportunity for Finland, the green transformation represents a remarkable change that transcends many areas.
The Green Electrification 2035 program will play a key role in making Finland carbon neutral and the solutions developed under the program will enable the rapid growth of renewable electricity usage.
ABB’s focus areas
- Power to X
- Resilient energy networks
- Climate neutral industries
- Smart sustainable cities
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on ABB’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Seamless and Secure Connectivity program aims at enabling trustworthy, secure, and resilient end-to-end connectivity architectures and products including life-cycle services in various domains.
Bittium’s focus areas
- Secure Encryption Technologies
- Highly Secure Communications in the Future Networks
- Secure End-to-End Verticals
- Scaled Sensor Fusion Applications
- Significant Development Models Improvement
- Transitions from Devices to E2E Services
Bittium’s project webpages
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Bittium’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
To create a more sustainable future, we need to rethink how we produce and consume our resources. Plastics are irreplaceable materials in modern society, and they enable growth and help us save resources.
Nevertheless, we must solve the current sustainability challenges of plastics. We need to replace fossil raw materials, transform plastics industry into circular economy and lead the way towards carbon-neutral production.
The SPIRIT programme leads this transformation via active co-operation in an extensive ecosystem across the entire value circle.
Borealis’ focus areas
- Renewable feedstock
- Circular plastics
- CO2 reduction
- Enablers for Green Transition
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Borealis’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
We see a future where energy transition is fossil free. To make this vision a reality, an intelligent power electronics ecosystem is needed. Our mission is to build a strong ecosystem that drives intelligent, sustainable, and cost-effective use of energy, and which strengthens the competitive advantage of its members in the global market.
Energy and its conversion will be the defining business of the future. Power electronics can be used to enable the smart and profitable green conversion of energy needed for the electrification of transportation. As an expert in power elctronics, at Danfoss we have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead, uide and support an ecosystem in which power elctronics form the basis for developing fossil free solutions for green electric transformation.
Danfoss focus areas
- Highly efficient smart power electronics, digitalization, and sustainability
- Off-highway vehicle electrification, smart energy storage solutions and charging infrastructure
- Efficient and cost-competitive green hydrogen production
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Danfoss’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
ExpandFibre is an R&D collaboration and an Ecosystem launched by Fortum and Metsä Group to accelerate the development of sustainable bioproducts. It focuses on upgrading pulp fibres, hemicellulose and lignin from renewable and sustainable sources of straw and northern wood into new bioproducts. Its ambition is to meet the growing demands for sustainable textile fibres and other added value biomaterials.
Expandfibre focus areas
- Textiles
- Biocomposites
- Packaging
- Lignin products
- Hemicellulose products
- Sourcing & fractionation
- Other fibre and wood products
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Danfoss’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
The mission of The Flow of Urban Life ecosystem is to develop smooth and sustainable services and solutions for the next 1 billion people moving into cities by 2030, helping to ease some of the major challenges caused by urbanization and climate change.
To achieve this, we are teaming up with partners who also play a part in how people flow through cities. The goal is to generate new business worth 1 billion euros for the ecosystem partners and for KONE.
Focus areas
- Innovations for sustainability
- Smart construction
- Smart buildings and cities
- Smart and green field services
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Kone’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Zero4 is a research and innovation collaboration and ecosystem led by Konecranes. Zero4’s vision is a unified material flow platform developed together with ecosystem partners, universities, research institutes and customers. The program focuses on constructing a holistic material flow platform that tracks material movement and seamlessly and efficiently orchestrates, visualizes and optimizes intralogistics equipment fleets and material so that the needed materials are always where they should be.
Focus areas
- Information Barriers
- GHG (Green House Gas) emissions
- Wasted energy
- Safety incidents
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Konecranes’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
NEcOLEAP is a research and development project which aims to secure the competitiveness of the Finnish shipbuilding industry and high-level cruise ship expertise and know-how also in the future.
NEcOLEAP brings together representatives of companies, universities, and research institutes to develop innovative and responsible technology solutions on a global scale. The R&D topics of the project focus on four key areas: the ship itself, shipbuilding, smart technologies, and future drivers.
Focus areas
- Ecosystem
- Ship
- Shipyard
- Digitalization
- People
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Meyer Turku’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
SHAPE is an ecosystem launched by Mirka to accelerate the development of new solutions for the (re)manufacturing industry. SHAPE focuses on reshaping the life cycles of products and materials by boosting circularity, finding sustainable material solutions, piloting new business concepts and by optimizing sustainable processes.
Focus areas
- Boosting circularity
- Sustainable materials
- Repair, refurbish and remanufacture
- Intelligence throughout value chains
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Mirka’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Neste is targeting to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. Our innovation activities focus on renewing the existing businesses and developing new raw materials and technology solutions for transportation fuels as well as chemicals and polymers.
In the Neste Veturi R&D program we develop sustainable fuels and chemicals from renewable and circular raw materials that have been difficult to utilize so far. New solutions decrease the use of crude oil and tackle climate change.
Focus areas
- forestry residues
- municipal solid waste
- microalgae
- liquefied waste plastics
- carbon dioxide and hydrogen
- novel vegetable oils
- catalysis
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Neste’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
As modern networks continue to evolve towards 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), there is an essential need to manage very rapidly increasing data transfer and network capacity requirements to provide low latency services and increase capacity in a sustainable way. Edge computing and edge intelligence are considered an essential element in 5G networks. They both represent a key enabling factor for future sustainable digital infrastructure and networks. For example, optimization of workloads can significantly reduce energy consumption related to data transport.
Focus areas
- Sustainability and competitiveness
- Network scalability and operability
- Solution Focus
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Nokia’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Our goal is to shorten the time from idea to market of new innovative medicines by using data and artificial intelligence. We will create a dynamic, digitally boosted pharmaceutical research ecosystem in Finland by combining therapy area insights, disease-relevant data with world-class data science and information technology. This ecosystem will develop new services, products and solutions to the global healthcare market.
Focus areas
- Data access and insights
- Active learning laboratory
- Connecting data science providers and consumers
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Orion’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Chip Zero aims to create the first semiconductor ecosystem in Finland with a mission to develop chips with zero lifetime emissions. The aim is to lower the deposition emissions of semiconductor manufacturing by 50% and increase the handprint of chips by double digit percentages by 2030, thus leading to an overall zero lifetime emission.
Focus areas
- Manufacturing equipment
- Boosting circularity
- Electrification handprint
- Semiconductor ecosystem
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Picosun’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Ponsse’s and EPEC’s objective is to develop intelligent, zero-emission off-road and commercial vehicles, and infrastructure and solutions for cut-to-length forestry industry and apply these technologies in parallel to other application areas such as construction, agriculture, logistics & mining. We want to create sustainable environments.
Focus areas
- Autonomous solutions
- Sustainable power
- Data driven solutions
- Sustainable supply chain
Ponsse & EPEC project webpages
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Ponsse and EPEC’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Sandvik is heavily investing in new technologies and solutions in their program to ensure their future competitiveness. Sandvik’s project aims for globally competitive electric and digital solutions for heavy machinery. The interaction between machines and systems enables system-level optimization in customer processes. One key enabler for system-level optimization is the future connectivity solutions that Sandvik is developing in collaboration with a broad ecosystem as part of the project.
Focus areas
- Autonomy
- Wireless
- Environmental sensing
- Analysis and machine learning
- Mobile electric efficiency
- Electric connectivity
- Electric fleet management
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Sandvik’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
The mission of the Tietoevry Trusted Digital Societies programme is to develop affordable, accessible, and trusted digital services for citizens. Together with our ecosystem partners we will accelerate the development of trusted technologies, develop Finland’s technological know-how and help Finnish IT companies to build globally scalable business value from responsible data-enabled platforms.
Focus areas
- Machine learning and analytics life cycle management
- Trustworthy AI
- Digital identity
- Data orchestration and collaboration
- Secure communication
- Ecosystem models, compliance and operations framework
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Tietoevry’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
The future food system (Food 2.0) is a comprehensive concept that encompasses more than just food. Alongside food production, it generates energy, feed, and even fiber materials. Simultaneously, nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, water, and carbon circulate among different components of the food system
The actual food production includes all forms of food production. Plant-based, animal-derived, and cell-cultured food products are interconnected within the food system. For instance, nutrients from animal farms contribute to crop cultivation through circular fertilization. Removing one piece from this system affects the others.
Focus areas
- Future products
- Technology transformation
- Regenerative production
- Circular economy and resource efficiency
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Valio’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Valmet’s Beyond Circularity is an R&D program in which Valmet and its ecosystem come together to innovate, renew and enable their customer industries in the shift to carbon neutrality and to facilitate the green transition.
The Beyond Circularity Program aims to develop process technologies, automation and services to create value by utilizing renewable and recycled materials, industrial sidestream rejects and waste. Circularity is at the core of the program and its ecosystem, and its targets are closely connected to Valmet’s Technology vision 2030 and Climate Program – Forward to a carbon neutral future.
Focus areas
- Recycling technologies
- Biorefining / value adding to waste
- Resource efficient industries
- Automated, digitalized industry and services
- Service lifecycle concepts
- Emerging new process concepts and disruptive business
- Project management
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Valmet’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
Zero Emission Marine will develop technologies that will contribute to the emission reduction of different vessels and harbor operations. Themes contain direct development of green fuel technologies and production. Additionally, emission savings are generated through optimized automated vessel operations and business models based on energy efficiency and lifecycle services.
Focus areas
- New technologies
- Green Fuels
- Optimized Operations
- Business Models
Don’t hesitate to contact BoostEco experts for further information on Wärtsilä’s project and ecosystem opportunities!
SME Specialist
Harri Holopainen
+358 44 7856 442
SME Specialist
Joel Eskelinen
+358 44 7855 609
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