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The Employed Labour Force and Regional Gross Domestic Product in the Helsinki Region in 1990-2007

Source: Statistics Finland City of Helsinki Urban Facts

Moving annual avarage

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The vision for Helsinki Region

The Helsinki Metropolitan Area is a dynamic world-class centre for business and innovation. Its high-quality services, based on the combination of arts and science, creativity and adaptability, promote the prosperity of its citizens and bring benefits to all of Finland.

Helsinki Metropolitan Area Advisory Bord, 16 November 2004 Cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa

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Original info: Jarmo Suominen, UIAH

RESEARCH

BUSINESS

R&D

Living Labs

Living Labs are real life development platforms for…

…testing the services with user communities in their own living environment

… open and co-creative innovation

…involving the user communities in the development processes

…resulting in more acceptable solutions and better success rate

Future digital services are created by corporations, R&D institutions and the City of Helsinki in the Forum Virium Helsinki cluster.

Forum Virium Helsinki is a platform for open, market-driven innovation, located in the metropolitan area,

Forum Virium Helsinki acts as a matchmaker between partners. The activities build on actual future concepts.

Forum Virium Helsinki mission – the Forum of the Forces

Embedding Design in Life Embedded design is a human centred approach influencing all aspects of life.

Embedded design embraces finding solutions for citizen’s needs and ensures that innovations are accepted by people.

Embedded design is a method to realize the dream of sustainability.

2011 2012 2017

We are expecting remarkable long run effects on the following areas:

1) Improving the organising capacity of the Helsinki region.

2) Making the city smarter so that social services and infrastructure will give every citizen an opportunity for better everyday life.

3) Making Helsinki more attractive internationally.

4) Many Helsinki-based and Finnish companies are able to make use of the WDC Helsinki status in their local and international business operations.