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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Sourc
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: 2014 G
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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
ALL
IAN
CE
S
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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