INNOVATION, INNOVATION, FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OF TECHNOLOGY, & ENGINE PROJECT & ENGINE PROJECT Irek Defée Irek Defée Tampere University of Tampere University of Technology Technology Tampere, Finland Tampere, Finland [email protected][email protected]
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INNOVATION, INNOVATION, FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY FINLAND, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY
OF TECHNOLOGY, OF TECHNOLOGY, & ENGINE PROJECT & ENGINE PROJECT
Irek DeféeIrek Defée
Tampere University of TechnologyTampere University of TechnologyTampere, FinlandTampere, [email protected]@tut.fi
FINLAND COUNTRY - GEOGRAPHY
• 338 000 km2
• 10% lakes
• 80% forests
• rocky terrain
• limited resources
COUNTRY - POPULATION
• 5.4 mln people
• 6% swedish speaking
• Sami minority Lapland
• History
COUNTRY – HISTORY
• …..
• 1809
• 1863
• 1917
• 1939
• …..
COUNTRY – ECONOMY• Difficult natural conditions• GDP 34 000 €/m • Unemployment 8.5%• Export 53 mld €• Public debt 57% PKB
Economic growth Public debt
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS• Unveiled 2013
• Structural character
• Decline of several industrial sectors:
- Paper
- Ship-building
- Nokia
• Too little industrial diversification
• SME sector too small
• Public sector lagging: too costly
WHY HAS NOKIA FALLEN?
• Nokia growth phase
• Leading corporation phase
• Phase of operational signs of decline
• Systemic factors – decline inevitable?
• What remains is NSN: Nokia Solutions and Networks, cellular infrastructure company with significant resources
EDUCATION AND R&D SECTOR
• R&D sector is 3.7% GDP:
- total 7 mld €
- in which1.4 mld € university part
- world leading
•Higher education is only public
- limits on the number of students
- financial support for students
- study time is becoming restricted
INNOVATION SECTOR
• Finland has a highly advanced innovation
organisation system:
- National Technology Agency TEKES
supports development
- Academy of Finland – academic research
financing
- State Research Center VTT
INNOVATION ENHANCEMENT
• Critical evaluation: No top-class applied
innovation in Fin/EU (Google-likes)
• University sector behind
• One top university created:
- Aalto University Helsinki
•Huge emphasis on university startups
- creation of environment
- reorganization of studies
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Digital Media LaboratoryTUT
Faculty of Computer and Electrical
Engineering
UNIVERSITIES – CURRENT STATUS
• Reforms: organisational, structure,
financing, education
•Organisation
- Legal independence e.g. foundation
- Foundation capital
- State financing negotiable
- Profesorowie employed by foundation
- Infrastructure rented from state
CURRENT STATUS
• Faculties and departments
•Department – profit center – min. 10 professors
•New staff recruitment: Tenure track 4-levels, global search
•Results evaluated on a very broad basis
•Bureacracy and formalization increased
EDUCATION
• System had huge number of choices, this
has been eliminated
•Reduction of courses by 50%
•Computer engineering not popular
•Reductions of personnel
•Master level studies exclusively in English till 2020
•New concept for education in development
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
• 10 500 students, personnel 2000
• 1 500 from abroad
• Budget 148 mln €, 50% external sources
• Foundation capital 137 mln €
• Faculties:
Computing and Electrical Engineering
Engineering Sciences
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Faculty of Business and Built Environment
COMPUTING AND EE
• Departaments:
- Electronics and Communications Engineering
- Department of Signal Processing
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Pervasive Computing
TUT INNOVATION ENHANCEMENT
• New concept for education
• Creating innovative environment
• Emphasis on creativity and startups
• Startups - part of study process
KAMPUSARENA
KAMPUSARENA
DEPARTMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSINGDEPARTMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING
- 12 Professors - Total Personnel ~150-25 MSc/y-10 PhD/y-Budget 6 mln €/y