Tampere:an overview of innovation assets and areas of

competence

Tampere’s assets:

1. Intelligent machines and manufacturing industries: Chosen by world leadingcompanies like Cargotec, John Deere, Metso and Sandvik.

2. World class ICT & mobile ecosystem: Chosen by world leading companies like Intel, Microsoft, Nokia and Qualcomm.

3. Potential new customers: Major (industrial) enterprises and surrounding cluster companies.

4. Home of world firsts: A creative melting pot with a rich heritage and culture of industry and academic collaboration.

5. Internationally competitive: At the heart of the EU’s most competitive country.6. Talents for today and for tomorrow: 34.000 strong technology industry workforce

and 38.000 students at 3 esteemed universities.7. Accelerate your ROI: Cost effective and productive talents.8. Global reach: 130+ air destinations worldwide via Tampere and Helsinki-Vantaa

(1.5 hours by train or car).9. Most important growth center: Now and especially in the future.10. Active, open, versatile and positive atmosphere: Easy networking enables great

possibilities for R&D collaboration with no real distractions to business.

Tampere – Connected Technology Hub

150 YEARS OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION

Technology industry Key FiguresTurnover > 7 800 M€Employment > 34 000Companies > 2 800R&D investments > 750 M€ (87% of all R&D investments)

Largestconcentration of manufacturing

industries in Scandinavia

"AGCO is a large globally operating corporate that has own engine production also in Brazil and China. We chose Tampere region for our new production capacity because of the high technological competence that has cumulated during our long history in the region.“

- Eero Tomi, CEO of AGCO Power

”The cooperation between the top research on the region and the competent workforce they provide us have proven to be highly valuable to our business.“

-Pekka Pohjoismäki, President, Crushing and Screening Equipment, Metso Minerals

“The high level of know-how in mobile communications and the availability of skilled workforce led to our establishing operations in the Tampere region.”

- Veli-Pekka Vatula, Site Manager, MCG Finland, Intel

“Tampere is the center of mechanical engineering know-how, we have the whole Finnish sector within 250 km.”

-Jarmo Hyvönen, Former CEO of Fastems

Tampere ICT – From mobile devices to Internet of Things

50 years of history and cumulated

competence in ICT

Tampere ICT – From mobile devices to Internet of Things

50 years of history and cumulated

competence in ICT

“We have invested here because the pool of talent is excellent. Not only the universities but Nokia’s footprint has been very important. Half of our engineers have come from Nokia.”

- Miika Mäkitalo, CEO of M-Files

“The high level of know-how in mobile communications and the availability of skilled workforce led to our establishing operations in the Tampere region.”

- Veli-Pekka Vatula, Site Manager, MCG Finland, Intel

Tampere ICT – From mobile devices to Internet of Things

50 years of history and cumulated

competence in ICT

Intelligent Machines – The bedrock of business in Tampere

Biggestconcentration

of mobile machinery in Europe

Intelligent Machines – The bedrock of business in Tampere

“Tampere region has a long history in machine manufacturing. There is a lot of cumulated engineering competence in the area and the regional top level education ensures also our future recruitment needs.”

-Risto Käkelä, CEO of Avant Tecno

“The city has a great industrial tradition, which nowadays is becoming more technology-oriented. Software is of growing importance in diesel engine technology and the Tampere region is knowledge-rich in that field.”

- Eero Tomi, CEO of AGCO Power

”Tampere has a long tradition and high level of competence in mobile machines and mobile hydraulics which are essential to our business.”

-Esa Peltola, CEO of Bronto Skylift

Biggestconcentration

of mobile machinery in Europe

Intelligent Machines – The bedrockof business in Tampere

Biggestconcentration

of mobile machinery in Europe

LIFE SCIENCE CLUSTER IN TAMPERE

LIFE SCIENCE CLUSTER IN TAMPERE

Working together for a healthier world

• Biomaterials• Health care processes• ICT and signal processing• Stem cells • Regenerative medicine• Drug development• Implantable spare parts• Biodegradable materials• Bioabsorbable implants and devices

• Human spare parts • Implants for mending bones • Monitoring and imaging• Sensors and measurement solutions• Assistive technologies• Ophthalmology medicine• Mitochondrial genetics• Cancer• Vaccines

Tampere is a globally important location for developing innovations that combine medicine, biology, and technology. We have a world-class research on e.g. following subjects:

What is the Life Science Cluster about?

ACTIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL KEY PLAYERS

DIVERSE COMPANY BASEDevices, ICT, software, integration, pharma,

services, biomaterials

LINKED SERVICE PROVIDERSPatient hotel and senior housing service concept,

private hospital and health services, sports institutes

ENABLERS AT SCIENCE PARK KAUPPIProvide fast testing of innovations in genuine

health care surroundings

FUNDING AND EXPERTISEEasily available for both companies and

researchers

MODERN INNOVATION PLATFORMS AND CLUSTER COORDINATION

Boost local and global networking and support start-ups

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Unique combination of Bio – Meds – Tech

-expertise

CLEANTECH & ENERGY CLUSTER IN TAMPERE

CLEANTECH & ENERGY CLUSTER IN TAMPERE

Innovation platforms for next-generation healthcare

The Kauppi campus

The Kauppi Campus consists of: • Institute of Biomedical Technology• School of Medicine• School of Health Sciences• The biotechnology hub Finn-Medi• Tampere University Hospital• A number of healthcare R&D companies

Kauppi campus in 2020: • 10 000 health professionals• 5000–10 000 customers• 10 000 students• a €500m investment in total

Other cross-disciplinary innovation platforms

Oma TesomaIn Oma Tesoma, a city district of Tesoma is developed as an innovation platform to attract companies, residents and local communities to generate and create service innovations, business opportunities and attractive living environments and economically viable and sustainable urban areas together.

MediapolisMediapolis is an international campus that concentrates on content production and information and communications technology, where companies and students work side-by-side.

The New Factory is an environment for open innovation where ideas can be processed into prototypes, pilot projects, products and services, new business and new jobs.

Campus ArenaCompleted in 2015, Campus Arena will be cross-disciplinary hub of science, research and technology in the heart of the Tampere University of Technology campus.

The top dozen cleantech companies in Tampere

• Energy efficiency• Clean industrial processes• Biomass• Biogas• Combined heat and power (CHP)• Wind energy• Water solutions• Waste Handling

Wavin-labkoDoranovaLabkotecValmetAndritz Hydro AlstomMerus PowerAdwatecThere CorporationTPI ControlTammervoimaMolok

Where do we get the know-how?

Tampere’s universities provide high-level education and they are active cooperation partners for the Cleantech & Energy industry.

Supporting education, research & development:

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYTampere Wear Center (TWC) Surface engineeringHybrids & Active materials: polymers, elastomers, composites

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCESEnergy and Environmental Technology Mechanical and Production EngineeringIntelligent machinesAutomation TechnologyComing: Biohub, recycling and renewable energy based on bio

FIMECC – Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster

DEMAPP: competitive environmentally sustainable solutions for the Finnish process, engineering and energy industries

LIGHT: potential for saving raw materials and energy and decreasing CO2 emissions over the lifetime of cars and trucks, heavy-duty vehicles and other machinery

EFFIMA: developing new technology and solutions that enable new machines, devices and systems with dramatically lower life-cycle costs

CLEEN – Cluster for Energy and EnvironmentMMEA: Developing new technologies, methods, tools and services in the area of measuring, environmental monitoring and EEA

Tampere – City as an innovation platform

Tampere – City as an innovation platform

“Tampere’s objective is to be a smart city in the broadest sense. We want the whole city to be an innovation platform. The city government itself acts as a facilitator, an enabler, bringing companies, universities and the public sector togetherand helping innovation to take place quickly.”

- Olli-Poika Parviainen, Vice Mayor, Economic Development, City of Tampere

“Tampere has a number of advantages, It is located in the center of Finland and first and foremost it is an education city. Almost one in five people in the city is a student. I think one of the city’s most important features is the close co-operation between the private and public sectors, which means that things get done.”

- Pekka Salmi, Vice Mayor, Transportation, City of Tampere

Regional Ecosystem - Mobility as a Service

Minna Kivimäki, LVM / Heureka 8.12.2014

Regional Ecosystem - Mobility as a Service

Minna Kivimäki, LVM / Heureka 8.12.2014

Tampere is suitable location for developing new ITS services• Growing city with right size • Long history in innovative solutions • ITS Factory operates in Tampere • ITS companies and competences needed for MaaS available

in Tampere

The vision 2020• Tampere will be one of the pioneers in the MaaS services in

the world• Individuals do not need to own personal cars to operate

effectively and in cost-effective manner

Tampere – City that invests in the futureProject Timeline Value M€ Man Years Rantaväylä + region 2013- 1075 11 000 Ratina shopping center 2014- 200 3 400 Deck and Central Arena 2016- 400 6 000 Station district 2018- 900 15 000 Eteläpuisto district 2017- 250 4 250 Santalahti district 2017- 240 4 100 Ratapihankatu area 2015- 120 2 050 Underground parking (Kunkku) 2018- 70 1 050 Tramway 2017- 50 (200) 740 Over 3 billion euros worth investments in the coming years

Tampere – An active driver in national programs

Strategic guidelines

ITI/6Aika – Smart services strategy (2014-2020, ~100 M€, 6 largest cities involved)

• Open data and interfaces– ICT know-how– Nationwide interfaces and dissemination

• Open innovation platforms– Creating and improving disseminable

operational models• Open participation

– Citizens’ involvement and co-development

Implementation part

INKA – Smart City and Renewing Industry (2014-2020, ~100M€, 6 largest cities and Lahti involved)

• Smart traffic– Transport as a service– Open data and common interfaces– Electric traffic

• Resource-efficient city– Material and waste management– Cleantech-platforms– Industrial symbiosis

• Smart buildings and spaces– 3D-modelling and built environment

platforms– Innovations in service buildings

Innovation and startups

World Firsts - Invented in Tampere

1974 NMT phone call 1978 Automatic teller machine (ATM)1984 Bio absorbable implant1985 Electromechanical film1988 Micro-crystallized chitosan1991 First commercial GSM call1993 Analogue cellular data card1994 GSM data card1995 Walking forest machine1996 First communicator (Nokia 9000)1997 First GSM card phone1998 Digital x-ray image 1999 WAP phone (Nokia 7110) & server1999 WLAN card (Nokia C110/111)2001 Mobile camera phone (Nokia 7650)2001 Automated mine loading2003 Fog screen walk-through display2004 Automated container terminal2008 Preservative-free prostaglandine eye-drop for glaucoma treatment2008 New jaw bone from patient’s fat cells was grown using stem cell tech2009 Antibiotic-releasing biodegradable implant2012 Nokia 808 PureView (41-megapixel camera phone)2013 Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView2015 Nokia OZO virtual reality camera for professional content creators

Award winning innovation platform in TampereNew Factory is an environment for open innovation where ideas can be processed intoprototypes, pilot projects, products and services, new business and new jobs.www.newfactory.fi

Demola is the leading platform to engage companies, talented students and universitiesin co-creation. Demola Tampere carries out annually some 100 projects with 450students. 40 % of the students are international. The partner companies have licensed80 % of the project outputs and recruited 15 % of Demola’s students. Companies likeMetso, Sandvik, Intel and ABB have already partnered with Demola.

Award winning innovation platform in TampereNew Factory is an environment for open innovation where ideas can be processed intoprototypes, pilot projects, products and services, new business and new jobs.www.newfactory.fi

Demola is the leading platform to engage companies, talented students and universitiesin co-creation. Demola Tampere carries out annually some 100 projects with 450students. 40 % of the students are international. The partner companies have licensed80 % of the project outputs and recruited 15 % of Demola’s students. Companies likeMetso, Sandvik, Intel and ABB have already partnered with Demola.

“We believe in the open-innovation, co-creation and lean start-up concepts. It means that start-ups can be successful by focusing on the essential and testing agilely the critical business assumptions. The Demola programmehelps students to apply the theory that they learn to the real world.”

- Jukka Matikainen, Director of New Factory

Startups – Examples of rising stars fromTampere region

Universities and research

Vivid university city – Talents for tomorrow

OVER 38.000 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

WEF 2014-2015: FINLAND #1 UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION IN R&D

EVERY 5TH PERSON IN TAMPERE IS A STUDENT

Vivid university city – Talents for tomorrow

OVER 38.000 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

WEF 2014-2015: FINLAND #1 UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION IN R&D

EVERY 5TH PERSON IN TAMPERE IS A STUDENT

”The local top research provides highly valuable support to our R&D activities.“

- Veli-Pekka Vatula, Site Manager, Intel

“After a thorough consideration of many options globally, we chose Tamperebecause of the cumulated competence and knowledge in the region onintelligent machines. Locating our R&D near the top research of TampereUniversity of Technology was also an important aspect.”

- Matti Sommarberg, CTO, Cargotec

Demola Tampere carries out annually some 100 projects with 450 students. In Demola, university students develop product and service demos together with companies. 40 % of the students are international.

The partner companies have licensed 80 % of the project outputs and recruited 15% of Demola’s students. Companies like Metso, Sandvik, Intel and ABB have alreadypartnered with Demola.

Facts and Figures

9,904 students | 1860 staff | 1898 scientific publications (in 2013)

Leading-edge fields of researchSignal processingOptics and photonicsIntelligent machinesBiomodellingBuilt environment

Centers of Excellence in Research appointed by the Academy of FinlandSignal Processing Algorithm Research Group (SPAG) Generic Intelligent Machines (GIM) together with Helsinki University of Technology

www.tut.fi/en

1,423 international students

Facts and Figures

15,552 students | 2163 staff | 1972 scientific publications (in 2013)

Leading-edge fields of researchHuman-technology interactionInformation retrievalGame research

Centers of Excellence in Research appointed by the Academy of FinlandThe Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research (FiCEHiR)Finnish Research Unit for Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Disease (FINMIT)

www.uta.fi/english

1,421 international students

Facts and Figures

10,477 students | 761 staff | 223 publications (in 2013)

Research focus areasEfficiency of mobile machineryDevelopment of energy efficiency in buildings and facilitiesReduction of environmental impactsAssessment of human activity in genuine operational environmentsDevelopment of new business opportunitiesDevelopment of services for seniors, including promotion of wellbeing entrepreneurship and development of wellbeing technologyPromotion of wellbeing at workPromotion of children’s and adolescents’ health

www.tamk.fi/en

489 international students