VTT R&D Services

Scaling up innovations

with the industry

September 23th, 2014

Tuomas Mustonen, Marko Nokkala

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Contents of presentation

Overview of VTT

Collaboration models

Highlights of the energy sector services

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Tekes – the Finnish

Funding Agency for

Innovation

Public decision makers, financiers and

R&D performers

Parliament of Finland

Council of State

Ministry of

Education and

Culture

Academy of Finland

Ministry of

Employment and

the Economy

Other ministries and

research institutes

Research and

Innovation

Council

Sitra, the Finnish

Innovation Fund

Finnvera

Finpro

Finnish Industry

Investment Ltd

ELY centres (Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment)

Universities

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VTT’s key strategic objectives and roles

1. Support the competitiveness development of

companies. (business view)

2. Renew industries and develop new business

opportunities together with companies and other

stakeholders. (business view)

3. Provide research and technology based

knowledge to society and political decision making.

(societal view)

4. Create value and network Finnish innovation

ecosystem to be one of the innovation hot-spots in

the world. (business and societal views integrated)

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VTT - Technical Research Centre of

Finland Largest multi-technological applied research

organisation in Northern Europe

Services and the way of work

Cross-disciplinary technological and business

expertise

A not-for-profit and impartial research centre

Customers

Finnish and international companies as well as public

sector organisations

Resources

Turnover 308 M€ (2013 VTT Group),

Personnel 2,900 (31.12.2013 VTT Group)

Unique research and testing infrastructure

Wide national and international cooperation network

*) Source: Roles, effectiveness, and impact of VTT, VTT & Technopolis Group, 2013.

OF FINNISH INNOVATIONS

include VTT expertise.

Source: Roles, effectiveness, and impact of VTT, VTT & Technopolis

Group, 2013.

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Basic government

funding

33%

Revenue, domestic public

sector

29%

Revenue, domestic

private sector

20%

Revenue from abroad

18%

VTT’s turnover by type of revenue

Turnover

308 M€

in 2013

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Knowledge intensive

products and services

Smart industry and

energy systems

Solutions for natural

resources and environment

VTT’s Business and Research Areas

• Microelectronic systems

• Intelligent sensor systems

• Printed and hybrid

functionalities

• Communication systems

• Digital systems and services

• Biosystems and diagnostics

• Life time management

• Nuclear safety

• Smart energy and system

integration

• Systems engineering

• Structures and functionality

• Materials and manufacturing

• Industrial biotechnology

• Biofuels and bioenergy

• Process chemistry and

environmental engineering

• Biomass and food processing

• Fibres and biobased materials

Business ecosystems, value chains, foresight

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International in all aspects

Research units in Brazil and South Korea • Operating in all continents

• Actively involved in building the European innovation ecosystem •

10% of Global Fortune 500 -companies are VTT’s customers

VTT’s EU/ERA Funding

in 2012 was 60 M€

6.1% of VTT personnel in 2012 were from outside

Finland representing 51 different nationalities,

Germans and Chinese were the largest individual

groups of non-Finns.

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Basic research Applied research Development

UNIVERSITIES

INDUSTRY

VTT

VTT’s status as performer of R&D work

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Business from research VTT’s innovation process connects research,

development and innovation

Commercial R&D services

Technology transfer services

IPR licensing

New venture creation

Creating new business concepts, solutions and products

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH

Creates new ideas,

technologies, and IPR

Incubates and demonstrates applications

Creates innovation potential

Grows competencies and knowhow

Added value for

customers and other

stakeholders

Customer and other

stakeholders’ needs

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OF THE MOST

DEMANDING

INNOVATIONS

in Finland include

VTT expertise. (*

Opportunity to utilise unique

testing and research equipment

Technologies and expertise Research infrastructure Partnership networks

Cross-disciplinary in-depth scientific and

business expertise available to the

customer

Comprehensive, cross-

disciplinary scientific and

customer networks

VTT services are available to the customer in all stages of the innovation

process from foresight to ensuring market access

Services

Solutions

Customised solutions are created in

co-operation with customers

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Commercial activities

Joint projects

Self-financed research

VTT’s research projects

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(*) R&D funding possibilities for example

Tekes (The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation)

EU projects

Commercial activities

performed according to

direct demand from

customers.

Research projects jointly

funded by VTT, companies,

research financers (*) and/or

other research parties.

Technology-based strategic

research projects

Impact:

Building competitiveness

for VTT’s customers

through world-class

research and innovation

services

Impact:

More efficient technology

transfer

Foundation for new

innovations and political

decision-making

Impact:

Developing VTT’s own

competitiveness and

acquiring knowledge and

expertise to meet future

customer needs

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Company driven

Public-private

partnerships and

universities

• Industrial scale

• Product specific

• Investment required

Commercialization of technologies

• Helps in industrial up-scaling

• Simplified cases

Speeding up process and product

development by piloting

• Creates knowledge

• Demonstrates concepts

• Mostly at lab scale

Long term fundamental research and concept

development

Research towards commercialization

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Large, versatile research infrastructure

supports the translation of research to business

Modern research infrastructure from lab to pilot scale enables world-class

research, competitive customer offering and piloting & demonstration activities

supporting commercialization especially in bioeconomy and cleantech

Both VTT investments and new models to fund the research infrastructures are

needed during the strategy period

New Bioruukki pilot plant is the largest single investment during the strategy

period

Infrastructure is developed together with universities: Joint VTT-Aalto

bioeconomy infrastructure is on the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap

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Piloting ecosystem

2014

Gasification and pyrolysis pilot

2015

Biomass fractionation and pulping pilots Customer pilots 2016-

Process chemistry pilots

Future

Solar energy pilots?

BIORUUKKI United pilots

Flexibility for development and scale-up

in bioeconomy and cleantech

Together

with

customers

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269 notifications of inventions and

25 notifications of software in 2012.

1,290 patents and patent applications in

VTT’s patent portfolio.

VTT Ventures Ltd had partial ownership in

19 enterprises based on VTT’s technology

at the end of 2012.

2,000 publications yearly, 60% of them

scientific articles and conference

presentations.

7,000 publications in VTT’s own publication

series since 1943. About 1,600 of them are

available on the Internet.

103 publications in VTT’s own publication

series in 2011.

Results

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VTT long term strategy

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Contents of presentation

Overview of VTT

Collaboration models

Highlights of the energy sector services

Marko Nokkala

TECHNOLOGY FOR BUSINESS