Innovation Department
The Innovation Department is responsible for the development, implementation and success of innovation policy in Finland. It promotes the growth of businesses and sectors and internationalisation and renewal, and it tries to ensure that innovation is a widespread phenomenon in both the private and public sector. The department is also responsible for drafting mineral policy and that sector’s official work.
The Innovation Department consists of six teams engaged in the following:
Innovations in expertise
The planning and implementation of research- and technology-based innovation policy and the development of the workplace based on innovation
Demand-led innovations
The planning and implementation of demand- and user-oriented innovation policy, the promotion of innovation in services and the creative economy, and technical safety, standardisation and quality
Innovation environments
Centres of expertise, the Centres of Expertise Programme, and cluster-based innovations as part of regional innovation, and International Innovation Centres
Growth enterprises
The planning and implementation of policy relating to the needs of growth companies, especially those aiming at rapid growth and internationalisation
Internationalisation and exports
The drafting and realisation of policy promoting exports and internationalisation for businesses and measures to encourage foreign investment and tourism
Mineral policy
The drafting and realisation of mineral policy and official duties relating to prospecting and mining
The Innovation Department, as part of the Ministry, is responsible for the supervision and monitoring of the following agencies and state aid organisations:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
Centre for Metrology and Accreditation
Foundation for Finnish Inventions
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