Presentation on TEKES, Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation and Technology Presented by Tuomas Lethinen ACQUEAU Workshop on Industrial Waste Water Treatment 12 March 2015

1. The Finnish Funding
Agency for
Innovation

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Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
 Tekes services
• Funding for innovative R&D and business
• Networking Finnish and global companies and researchers
• Tekes is non-profit and takes no equity or ownership
on intellectual property.
 Customers
• Finnish and international companies located in Finland
• Universities, research institutes, providers of public services etc.
 Resources
• Budget: 550 million euros annually
• Personnel: 360 in Finland and abroad
• Public agency under the Ministry of Employment and the Economy

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How do we work?
 Tekes encourages companies to do challenging R&D
• Funding for the creation of new know-how and development of products,
processes and service or business concepts
• We accept more risks than private financiers
 Tekes facilitates collaboration and networking
• between small and large businesses
• industry and the academia
• public and private organisations
• globally – nationally – regionally
• Promoting international opportunities
(Horizon 2020, EUREKA etc.)

4. Focus areas of Tekes’ strategy
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- bioeconomy
- cleantech
Market access
New business
ecosystems
Natural resources
and efficiency
Wellbeing and health
Digitalisation
Value creation
Tekes as an active and visible playmaker in selected fields

5. United States
Washington, D.C.
Palo Alto
India China
Beijing
Shanghai
Hong Kong
EU
Brussels
Tekes as a part of Team Finland network
2015–2017
Japan
Tokyo
Taiwan
Taipei
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Germany
Russia
Moscow
Tekes works in cooperation with Team Finland network in central growth
markets.
Tekes focuses on countries and areas that have a leading or rising
position as a driver for innovation, a developer of technology,
competence, and business models, or have an important status as a
Finnish partner .

6. United States
Washington, D.C.
Palo Alto
India China
Beijing
Shanghai
Hong Kong
EU
Brussels
Tekes as a part of Team Finland network
2015–2017
Japan
Tokyo
Taiwan
Taipei
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Germany
Russia
Moscow
Tekes works in cooperation with Team Finland network in central growth
markets.
Tekes focuses on countries and areas that have a leading or rising
position as a driver for innovation, a developer of technology,
competence, and business models, or have an important status as a
Finnish partner .