1. InnoWork
9.5.2012 TAMPERE
Come and Stay!
Communities for global nomads
Mika Raunio
Unit for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Institute for Social Research
University of Tampere, Finland
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2. 1 Connectivity and rewards
Outflow
CONNECTIVITY
Renewing inflow
REWARDS
Human capital
CONNECTIVITY
Social capital
Complenting inflow
Cultural capital
Outflow
REGION
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3. Philologists, translators & interpreters (Professionals) 20,3 (772)
Cleaners (Elementary occupations) 14,6 (7 479)
Clearing & forwarding agents (Technicians and associate professionals) 14,5 (373)
Newspaper & adv. deliverers and messengers (Elementary occupations) 11,6 (745)
Housekeeping & restaurant supervisors (Service, Care and Shop workers) 11,5 (2 025)
2
Waiters, waitresses & bartenders (Service, Care and Shop sales workers) 10,7 (3 116) Occupations
Travel consultants & organisers (Technicians and associate professionals) 10,5 (123)
with highest
Fruit & veget processing-machine operators (Plant and machine operators) 10,5 (98) percentage of
Managers of SMEs of restaurants & hotels (Senior officials and managers) 10,4 (149) foreigners as
Lecturers & senior assistants (Professionals) 10,3 (378) a share of
Choreographers & dancers (Professionals) 9,5 (78) total
Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified (Professionals) 9,2 (964) employed
Bleaching- & cleaning-machine operators (Plant and machine operators) 8,9 (295)
2009
Other medical doctors (Professionals) 8,4 (799)
(Statistics Finland 2009)
Biologists, botanists, zoologists & related professionals (Professionals) 8,3 (207)
Gardeners & horticultural workers (Skilled agricultural & fishery workers) 8,2 (512)
Sewing-machine operators (Plant and machine operators) 8,2 (153)
Cooks (Service, Care and Shop sales workers) 8,1 (1 651)
Central government professionals (Professionals) 8,0 (1 296)
Beauticians (Service, Care and Shop sales workers) 7,7 (239)
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7,3 (181)

4. 3 Why to connect?
• The firms follow the people or are started by them. Cities should strive to become
broadly creative communities, not just centres of technological innovation and high-tech
industry.”(Florida 2002)
• Properly managed economic and cultural diversity may create new ideas and modes
of operations. (Niebuhur 2006), not just fulfill the missing pieces.
• Connections with strangers are (weak ties) likely to contain new information.
(Martin & Sunlay 2006, 416; Granovetter 1973)
• Mobility may open exclusiveness and lock-in situations of too closed networks where
traditional solutions and routines are not questioned. (Uzzi 1996; Bathelt et al 2002)
• Face-to-face time minimize communication and trust related principal-agent
problems within the firms (Rosenblum 2001, 887).
• Mobility helps researchers and professionals to keep up the pace of advancements
(OECD 2000.)
• When product life cycles are months national educational institutions may be too slow
• Knowledge flows and knowledge spillovers may be strongly based on to social networks
and labor mobility ; Geographical proximity as such is not compulsory or sufficient
condition for knowledge spillovers. (Glaeser, et al. 1992; Breschi and Lisson 2003)
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5. 4 How to connect?
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6. 5 Why community building?
Define the value of knowledge
and related transaction costs for
regional innovation economy
Human capital
Social capital Cultural capital
Define value and rules of the
rewarding feedback from the use
of professional skills for
individuals
Regional economy
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7. 8a Community building: how?
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8. 8b Community building: how?
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9. 9 Nourishing policy measures; why?
•No new MNCs to Finland
– Nokia’ R&D from over 2Be below 1,3Be during 2000
s
•Global small firms/entrepreneurs
– Rovio 2003 (turnover 2010: 10,5 Me (80M 2011?), employees approx. 300)
– Beneq 2005 (turnover 2011: 15 Me, employees 82)
•New generation, promising experiences
– In Demola (Tampere) about 30 percent of students are foreigners. New products
and service concepts are produced in cooperation with companies.
– Aalto Venture Garage (Helsinki region), connect with Silicon Valley and Stanford
University, students have been very active in setting up the activities
• Markets in BRIC & Developing countries
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10. Policy issues 1
Social and transnational competences
1. Analytical competence: Understanding of the central beliefs,
values and practices and ability to link foreign conditions to one’s
own circumstances, and to discern transnational strategies.
2. Emotional competence: Motivation and ability to open oneself up
continuously to divergent cultural influences and experiences with
genuine interest and respect, ability to manage multiple indentities.
3. Creative/imaginative competence: Ability to foresee the
synergistic potential of diverse cultural perspectives in problem
solving and to articulate transnational synthesis
4. Behavioral competence: communicative facility: Interpretation
skills and proficiency in relaxed use of intercultural nonverbal clues
and codes, to discern different cultural messages
5. Functional (project/task) adroitness: Ability to relate to
counterpart(s) and to develop and maintain positive interpersonal
relationships, to adapt sensitivity and imagination in transnational
interactions, accommodative organizational strategies
(Koehn and Rosenau 2002)
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11. Policy issues 2
Matching channels and platforms
Platforms integrate the global flows with the regional economy
[Global CHAP] National policy for [Global CHAP]
Human Capital CHAP
National policy for National policy for
Corporate CHAP System CHAP
Regional integrative platform
(Ely, NF, programs, etc )
Firms & other organizations
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12. Policy issues 3
Innovation and immigration converging?
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13. Thanks
for your attention!
Q&A
http://www.uta.fi/tasti/
Mika.M.Raunio@uta.fi
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