SHOKStrategic Centers for Science,

Technology and Innovation

World-class breakthroughs in innovation cooperation

Renewal and competitiveness as goals cooperation

The goals of SHOK activities are: To increase export business and to improve the

economy To create to top know-how To renew business activities To improve companies' competitiveness To spur innovation activities To bring wellbeing to society

• The goal is to give rise to globally significant breakthrough innovations and business activities with the help of new knowledge and skills.

SHOKs are an internationally interesting operational model.

Six different industrial branches

Energy and environment Bioeconomy

Metal products and machine production

Built Environments Health and wellbeingInformation and

communications industry

The activities of each SHOK concentration is handled by a non-profit seeking limited company whose members include the key companies, universities, and research institutes of the area in question.

Includes 80% of Finland's export business

• SHOKs operate in the most important fields in Finnish business and society.

• Entities that are not shareholders can also take part in the research programmes and projects.

• Taking part are more than 700 companies and 40 research organisations.activities

SHOKs are company-driven collaboration platforms

SHOK compa

ny

Enterprises &

research organisatio

ns

The shareholders draft a research strategy and decide on its implementation.

The activities are based on a shared research strategy

SHOKResearch strategies

SHOKResearch

programmes

Research organisatio

ns

Companies

Research programmes are a central part of SHOK activities

•SHOK research programmes allow for persevering cooperation.

•Companies utilise researched information emerging from the SHOK research programmes. This leads to new products, services, earning models and courses of action for renewing Finland's business base while creating new export business activities.

•The time line is 5-10 years.

5–10 years.

Economic growth &wellbeing

Top know-howEmerges from SHOK

research programmes

New products and servicesDevelop in companies'

R&D projects

Based on cooperation of public and private entities

Responsible for operative

implementation

SKOK boards

Responsible for strategy, focus areas

and results

Research and

Innovation

Council Ministries

Funders

SHOK Management Team

Fund and supervise quality

Lays out SHOK concept as part of an innovation system

Follows SHOK activities and results, gives proposals for development, evaluates possibilities for further activities

Direct activitiesthrough i.a. Tekes

and the Academy ofFinland

SHOKs amass significant investments

50%40%

10%

Funding for research programmes in 2008-2014 a combined € 545 M

SHOK companies are diversifying the capital base (EU, other instruments for bringing products/services to the market).

According to the strategic programme of the government of Finland the public funding for SHOK research programmes will be run down. Consequently Tekes funding instrument for SHOK programmes will cease to exist in its present form.

SHOK activities are regularly evaluated

CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT

FUNDERSSHOK programme level

• SHOK quality criteria• External evaluation panels

SHOK MANAGEMENT TEAMSHOK corporate level

• Annual reporting to SHOK Management Team

• Handling applications from new consortia

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION COUNCIL

SHOK concept level• External evaluationat five-year intervals

SHOK COMPANIE

S•

Management • Measures

of results for programmes

In SHOKs companies direct research in extensive cooperation.

Company

Publicfunders

ResearchersUniversities

Research institutes

Researchnetworks

Companynetworks

Tekes programmes

Sitra

Academy of

Finland program

mes

Academy of Finland

projectfunding

Tekes project funding

SRC

Finnish Industr

y Investment Ltd

Finnvera

Basic research

Applied research

Product developme

nt

Market

SHOK programme has its own role in R&D&I environment

Targeting of R&D&I funding and defining content

SHOK researc

h programmes

SHOKs develop

Five key development targets have been set for SHOK activities:

1Focusing activities on sharper peaks of skills to bring forth new business activities.

Renewing the models and gauges for evaluation4

Networkingplatform to be formed out of SHOKs for companiesand for top research2 Increasing

competition for funding.3