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Allied ICT Finland, unique research-business co-operation

AIF network combines long-term research with medium-term RDI to short-term business needs. Strategies | Frontiers | Platforms | Partnering

LARGE CO-CREATION NETWORK . SHORTEN TIME-TO-MARKET from scientific discoveries to commercial availability.

. DEEP TECHNICAL EXPERTISE from AI to wireless via research & company network. . EASY ”ONE-DOOR” ACCESS TO ICT research, programs and companies in Finland. This document is confidential. The matters highlighted are only those which are in focus of this document and are not necessarily a comprehensivewww.alliedict.fi statement of our operations, strategies or views. This.documentACTIONhas PLATFORMSbeen prepared solelyANDfor COyour-CREATIONpersonal useMODELSand shouldfornot R2B,be quoted B2B, inPPPwhole. or in part without our prior written consent. No responsibility to any third party is accepted as the document is not intended for any other purpose. AIF network Members

Finland’s ICT centers Access to ICT RDI

cities and city

Who we are we Who 11 development hubs Leaders

research orgs & 18 universities Oulu + University of Oulu Oulu Univ. Of Applied Sc. Business Oulu Kajaani City of Oulu Kajaani Univ. Of Applied Sc.

University of Vaasa Vaasa Univ. of Applied Sc. Vaasa Teknologiakeskus Merinova 3000 researchers Vaasanseudun Kehitys University of Jyväskylä City of Vaasa Jyväskylä JAMK Univ. of Applied Sc. City of Jyväskylä Ecosystems Pori Robocoast DIH Tampere Tampere Univ. SMACC Lappeenranta-Lahti LUT University City of Tampere companies Saimaa Univ. of Applied Sciences Lahti Univ. of Applied Sciences University of Turku in ecosystems Helsinki City of Lappeenranta 1300 Åbo Akademi University of Helsinki Turku Univ. of Applied Sc. Turku-Salo City of Helsinki Novia Univ. of Applied Sc. Aalto University Turku Science Park YritysSalo

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AIF strategies – positioning within research to markets areas

Autonomous Circular Vertical Water Drones Gaming Bio Energy Health Food Vehicles Economy tech

core ecosystems

Reboot - Renew AIF AIF

Markets ICT company Printed Cyber Sensing Wireless Robotics IoT AI Software AR&VR ecosystems Electronics Security

Promote – Co-create

AIF RDI

core Research

AIF themes Components Systems Analytics Programming Human interfaces

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Research

Innovations and enablers Markets

Knowledge and capacity AIF value creation value AIF

Needs and requirements Business models and experiences

AIF RDI core ICT company ecosystems Applied ecosystems

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PRINTED INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MARITIME SMART BUSINESS LOGISTICS FACTORIES APPLICATIONS FOOD TECH SCALE-UP Test before Shared RDI Environment RDI Shared Drone test areas invest Pilot factories Linving labs Wireless AI test & Maritime PILOT FabLabs networks development simulators RDI TEST ENVIRONMENTS ENVIRONMENTS

CORE AI ROBOTICS & BIG DATA VR / AR DRONE COMPETENCE IoT & SENSORS AUTOMATION ANALYTICS KEY ENABLING 6G TECHNOLOGIES

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AIF supports 13 ICT ecosystems in Finland.

Ecosystems offer easy access to hundreds of

partner companies and latest of research. robocoast.eu

Growth Ecosystems Growth rebootiotfactory.fi/ Member companies seek new business through

Co-creation partnerships Skill & cost benefits

Solutions Talent finding & hiring

Customer offers Strategic joint initiatives

Consortiums Sharing tools & infra

Funding Access latest research

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WHO WE ARE • An international center of excellence for robotics and AI that focuses on need-based product development projects and the modernization of industry and services (Industry 4.0). • Consists of over a hundred companies as well as international RDI networks and programs. • Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) approved by the European Commission. DIH is a one-stop-shop providing services to companies in the region through a multi-partner cooperation.

MISSION OF ROBOCOAST • The goal of Robocoast is to support the growth of cluster companies and to develop the international competitiveness in the region by actively identifying development needs and launching business-oriented modernization and R&D projects.

ACTIVITIES OF ROBOCOAST • A key part of Robocoast's activities is a Living lab –concept, that allows organizations in the field of industry, service or public sector to test new innovations in a real-world environment. • Private 5G-pilot environment for companies to the testing new technologies. • Also provides challenge competitions, R&D workshops and demo days.

“Reboot increased our capacity in such extent that we can transfer more production to Finland.”

- Heli Huhtala, GE Healthcare Reboot IoT Factory

Digitalisation of manufacturing industry

rebootiotfactory.com1.11.2019 Reboot IoT Factory Leading Finnish ecosystem in manufacturing with critical mass to create substantial national impact Things that makes us special: • Novel co-innovation model that Oulu solves industry grand challenges building on top notch research and SME-services using IoT- Sievi technologies Vieremä • Factories that are committed to co-innovation model by opening Vaasa up their production environment Tampere for joint development and sharing experiences for accelerated Rauma Kotka collaborated digitalisation Porvoo Turku Helsinki In collaboration with: “Reboot increased our capacity in such extent that we can transfer TARGETS more production to Finland.” • Volume 8.8 Meur (12 partners, 18 months) • SME’s as co-innovation partners - Heli Huhtala, GE Healthcare • 40+ SMEs in Reboot ecosystem • 1.8 Meur of services bought from SMEs • Creation of 25 PoCs at the factories • 8 scale-up PoCs commercialized by SMEs • Cross-ecosystem dissemination with SEED, 5G, EIT Manufacturing and Intelligent Industry One deal - full access to Finland’s ICT expertise

AIF members offer our partners one-door access to most of Finland’s ICT research and university organizations, and through ICT ecosystems to hundreds of ICT companies. FAST

Dedicated liason person AIF as a partner a as AIF

TAILORED Research and companies

AIF deal Full access FOCUSED Partner-defined projects

SCALE Full life-cyle

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Digital Partnering Service AIF Runway AIF

By invitation only at: www.fenix.vip 3. CO-EXECUTION SERVICES

2. SPARRING & STAFFING BUSINESS CASES

1. PARTNER & PROJECT COMPANY ENTRY CREATION

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• A large Finnish company contacted AIF to find ICT partners for next generation product development. • SuperIoT invited 10 SMEs and 2 research institutes with matching competencies. • Workshops with company and research partners. – Identifying opportunities provided by new technologies. – Planning business models for the companies. – R&D project plan and research targets for the research institutes. • National funding applications was filed 6 weeks the first contact. – Positive funding decision made by Business Finland and project is currently ongoing. European Union Digital Innovation Hubs www.alliedict.fi 7 @IctFinland

contact us at Paavo Kosonen is a network of Director, Growth Mill [email protected] +358 50 576 0952 Operating through Universities / applied and RDA organizations Expertise of ICT companies ICT researcher network Jaakko Sauvola Members of ICT core ecosystems 28 Executive Director 3000 [email protected] 1000 Capacity of Finnish cities From AI to Wireless Arto Maaninen Core ICT ecosystems Chairman of Board 11 [email protected]

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