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FINLAND FUTURES RESEARCH CENTRE
Turku School of Economics and
Business Administration
Finland Futures Research Centre
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Is jointly founded by Turku’s three universities 1992. It is an
auxiliary unit of the Turku School of Economics and
Business Administration. The Centre has offices in Turku,
Helsinki and Tampere.
Personnel: 40-45 depending on project situation (20042005)
Number of different development, education and research
projects is 52 (in September 2005)
Organization structure: Director and executive board with
seven members
– Goal is to form research groups under main themes of action
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Focus areas of the Centre
• Foresight
• Visionary management and strategic planning
• Creative economy and cultural research
• Environmental research
• Basic research and methodology development in futures research
• Education and training
•Finland Futures Academy
•Masters programme
•Graduate School
• Future Focus
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Number of projects
Finland Futures Research Centre
PROJECTS 1995-2004
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National and
regional foresight
units
Millennium
Project: Helsinki
node
Committee for
the Future
(Parliament of Finland)
Finland Futures
Research Centre
FUTURES STUDIES
AND FORESIGHT
IN FINLAND
Finnish Society for
Futures Studies
Finnish Association
for the Club of
Rome
Finland Futures
Academy
Southwest Finland in Europe
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The features of Southwest Finland
• 54 municipalities and 5 sub-regions with 453 000
inhabitants (8,5 % of the whole population of Finland)
• Strongly concentrated in every way in Turku subregion
• The most industrialized region in Finland; at the
same time still strong agricultural production and
processing
• ICT-sector developed rapidly in the 1990’s
• Considerable inputs in biotechnology from mid
1990’s in Turku sub-region
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Unemployment rate (%) in Finland in 1991-2004
(Southwest Finland in red, Finland in black)
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The features of Southwest Finland
• Human capital
– 24 % of over 15 year olds have a higher
education degree (in 2002)
– 21 000 students in the universities
– 10 000 students in the polytechnics
– 12 500 students in secondary education units
• Regional weakness: No technical university
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The features of Southwest Finland
• Innovativeness
– Expenditure in R&D in 20013 607 M€ (12 %
of Finland’s whole expenditure)
– 6 % of the Finnish patent applications has
come from this region during 1998-2002
– 18 000 jobs in the information sector in 2003
(8 % of the whole country)
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Concentration
– Net immigration to the region from other regions and
abroad (mainly to Turku and Salo sub-regions)
– 23 % of the jobs in secondary sector (19 % in the whole
country)
– Biggest growth industries during the last few years by
employed persons have been wholesale and retail trade,
hotels and restaurants and business services
– Strong sub-regional differences (e.g. 61 % work in ICTsector in Salo sub-region, in half of the municipalities 15-25
% of the work force work in the primary sector)
The features of Southwest Finland
• Infrastructure
– Quite a good road network, investments in
motorways
– International harbors
– International airport
– Lots of cultural heritage sites, buildings,
landscapes
– Land use: 60 (80) % in forestry, 30 (7) % in
agriculture, 7,5 % built land
– Dependent on electricity import
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The features of Southwest Finland
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• Enterprises
– 39 % in service sector, 22 % in wholesale
and retail trade, 14 % in construction, 13
% in manufacturing and 13 % in other
sectors.
– ICT-sector diminished in terms of export
value in 2002 after 10 years of growth
– Investments in biotechnology from 1990’s
especially in Turku sub-region
– Growth is expected in business services,
welfare services (especially for older
people), ICT- content production and
cultural production
The features of Southwest Finland
• Institutions
– Three universities: University of Turku (15 000
students), Åbo Akademie University (6600) and
Turku School of Economics and Business
Administration (2000).
– Two polytechnics with 10 500 students
– Sub-regional development centres
– Turku Science Park
– Regional Council of Southwest Finland
– Employment and Economic Development Centre
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The quality of nature and living environment
The overall state of the nature is fairly good
Large archipelago as a recreation area
Pressures to build the shores and coast lines
Eutrophication has effected the quality of water system
City of Turku and its surroundings are a regional growth
centre in which services are concentrated, small
municipalities cannot guarantee same level of services
Municipalities differ from each other in terms of economic
success, but they are more successful in southwestern
Finland than in the average in the whole country
The features of Southwest Finland
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Development networks
– Networking has increased during the last ten years in
regional development (public-public and public-private
partnerships)
– Organizational, structural and mental rigidities hinder
the optimal use of networks
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– Several regional advantages: Recreation possibilities
(especially in the Turku archipelago), international
universities, human capital, cultural history heritage
and historical sites etc.
Contact information
• Dr. (Soc. Sc.), Director Juha Kaskinen
• Finland Futures Research Centre / Finland Futures
Academy
• Turku School of Economics and Business
Administration
• Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 20500 Turku, Finland
• Tel. +358 2 4814 599; Mob. +358 40 5439 645; Fax
+358 4814 630 [email protected]
• www.tukkk.fi/tutu
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