1.
INNOVATING FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
ARTO HOLOPAINEN
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
KUOPIO INNOVATION LTD.
WHO INTERNATIONAL HEALTHY CITIES CONFERENCE
ATHENS, GREECE
25/OCT/2014

2.
Kuopio Innovation is
a business developer
that opens up new opportunities
for innovative organisations
by combining ideas, experts and
new ways of thinking.

3.
Kuopio Innovation Ltd. – Owners and management
City of Kuopio
68%
University of Eastern Finland (4%)
University of Eastern Finland is one of the largest universities in
Finland
Technopolis Plc (24%)
Technopolis develops, owns and operates a chain of 21 smart
business parks that combine services with flexible and modern
office space in five countries in the Nordic-Baltic region
Savonia University of Applied Sciences (4%)
Savonia University of Applied Sciences is one the largest and
most versatile Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland
• Chairman of the Board: Petteri Paronen, Mayor, City of Kuopio
• CEO: Heikki Helve, Development Director, City of Kuopio
• Non-profit municipal enterprise

4.
Kuopio Science Park
Unique combination of expertise and know how in the fields of health, security,
environment and well being, as well as ICT and sensor technology competence.
• Over 240 enterprises
• Around 20,000 people working or studying in the area
• University of Eastern Finland
• Savonia University of Applied Sciences
• Kuopio University Hospital
• Several national research institutes
• Technopolis Plc, Kuopio Innovation Ltd.
• Kuopio Science Park video
http://youtu.be/_61mVrTObY8

5.
The Core of New Innovations – Cross-cutting Expertise
promotion of well-being,
personalized, data management,
electronic services, devices & technologies, usability,
food technology supporting well-being, well-being tourism, environmental health,
prediction of diseases, disease formation mechanisms, health games, production methods, big data
Cross-cutting Expertise, Multi-disciplinary
pharmaceutical
R&D, bioin-formatics
New Innovations
imaging,
biosignals, in vitro
–diagnostics
Companies, Business potential
online-analysing
methods, security
clinical research,
health outcomes
eHealth,
gamification,
elderly services
specialized
processing,
personalized
nutrition
consumer
responses
BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, SENSOR TECHNOLOGY, ICT, SECURITY
Medicines and
New Treatments
Health and
Well-being
Technology
Research
Services and
Health conomics
Well-being
Services and
Building for
Well-being
Prevention of
Diseases
Nutrition in
Treatment of
Diseases and
Recovery
New
Technologies,
Analytics and
Diagnostics
Versatile know-how
ENTERPRISE CLUSTERS, RESEARCH – EDUCATION – PUBLIC SECTOR – AUTHORITIES

6.
“Innovation is a knowledge-based
competitive edge, used to the
benefit of business, society and
well-being”

7.
Global Innovation Index 2014 and GDP per capita PPP$ (Bubbles sized by population)
Source: The Global Innovation Index 2014
Rank Country/Economy
1 Switzerland
2 United Kingdom
3 Sweden
4 Finland
5 Netherlands
6 USA
7 Singapore
8 Denmark
9 Luxembourg
10 Hong Kong (China)

8.
Centre of Expertise Program 1994-2013
- Promoting Regional innovation activities
13 National Competence Clusters 2007-2013
• Living business
• Digibusiness
• Food development
• Energy technology
• Pharma & biotech
• Health and well-being
• Intelligent machines
• Tourism and experience management
• Maritime
• Nanotechnology
• Forest industry future
• Cleantech
• Ubiquitous computing
OULU
ROVANIEMI
KOKKOLA
VAASA
PORI
TURKU
RAAHE
HELSINKI
KOUVOLA
JYVÄSKYLÄ
TAMPERE
HYVINKÄÄ
JOENSUU
SAVONLINNA
LAPPEENRANTA
SEINÄJOKI
KUOPIO
MIKKELI
HÄMEENLINNA LAHTI
KAJAANI

9.
The Innovative Cities (INKA) Programme
2014-2020
• Vision: Internationally attractive innovation clusters based
on top-notch talent are created in Finland as a result of
cooperation between cities and the State
• Five main themes, based on areas in which Finnish know-how
can be strengthened and used to boost growth
• Future Health
• Bioeconomy
• Sustainable Energy Solutions
• Smart City and Renewable Industry
• Cybersecurity
• Financing is approx. EUR 30 million/year
(State: EUR 10 million, cities: EUR 10
million, ERDF: some EUR 10 million)
OULU
VAASA
PORI
TURKU
HELSINKI
JOENSUU
LAPPEENRANTA
SEINÄJOKI
KUOPIO
LAHTI
JYVÄSKYLÄ
TAMPERE
Source: www.tekes.fi/inka

10.
“Unlearning is
the hardest part
of learning”

11.
eHealth and innovation
• In 2005, World Health Assembly adopted resolution (WHA58.28) establishing an
eHealth strategy for WHO, that urged Member States:
1) to draw up a long-term strategic plan for developing and implementing
eHealth services
2) to develop the infrastructure for ICT for Health
3) to build on closer collaboration with the private and non-profit sectors in
ICT
4) to endeavour to reach communities, including vulnerable groups, with
eHealth services
5) to mobilize multisectoral collaboration for determining evidence-based
eHealth standards and norms
6) to establish national centres and networks of excellence for eHealth best
practice
7) to consider establishing and implementing national electronic public-health
information systems
Source: World Health Organization, WHA58.28

12.
Finland is at a world-level benchmark in terms of eHealth
• In early 2013, the Ministry of Social Affairs
and Health of Finland requested an expert
peer review of the Finnish eHealth Strategy
and Action Plan
• It was organised by the European Health
Telematics Association (EHTEL)
• This analysis distils the expert peer
reviewers' lessons learned at the review,
and highlights the main opportunities for
progressing Finland's health and social care
domains through a well-conceived eHealth
deployment
Source: Peer Review eHealth strategy and action plan of Finland in a European context, MSAH,
Reports and Memorandums 2013:11

13.
eHealth Strategy and Action Plan of Finland in a European
Context - SWOT – Some examples
Strenghts
• Finland’s way of bringing health and
social care together provides an
excellent setting for other countries
to start thinking about re-design of
the social and health care systems.
Weaknesses
• Of particular concern is how to get
healthcare practitioners to act as
coaches and guides to support
health care improvement (“clinical
champions”), working with
“communities of patients” or
“communities of providers”
Opportunities
• Finland could showcase more widely
its eHealth solutions to other
countries in Europe.
• Compare and contrast Finland’s
approach to those of other countries
Threats
• Pay even more attention to
timeliness and responsiveness
• Pay attention to the risk of data
overload
• Be aware of possible threats to the
information system
Source: Peer Review eHealth strategy and action plan of Finland in a European context, MSAH,
Reports and Memorandums 2013:11

14.
Finnish National Archive of Health Information (Kanta)
• The electronic prescription, Pharmaceutical Database,
Patient Records Archive and patient data management
service, as well as the possibility for citizens to review
their own data, are new public services available in
Finland
• The services form a unique, statutory collection of
services, which will be made available to citizens,
health care professionals and pharmacies in stages
between 2010 and 2016
• First Finnish trials were executed 2011-2012 in Kuopio as part of the
city’s social and health services preparing the ground for an expansion
of the Kanta system to cover the entire field of health provision in
Finland
Source: www.kanta.fi

15.
Finnish National eHealth Strategy 2020 – draft
• Work done under Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
• Strategy work done in open collaboration with different stakeholders eg. public
sector, private sector, NGOs, social and healthcare personnel
• Innovillage, an open innovation environment for health and welfare is used
First draft ready –open public call for prioritising actions
Focus on people
Opportunities
• Service innovation
• Holistic health and wellbeing
• Prevention
• Personalisation and segmentation
• Genetics
• Big data
• Open data
• Cross-sectoral co-operation
• Evidence on effectiveness
Enablers
• Steering and legislation
• Enterprise architecture and governance
• Interfaces and standards
• Mobile technology
• Service-oriented architecture
• Cloud
• Development ecosystems
• Security and data protection

16.
”Fostering
innovations”

17.
Kuopio Innovation’s Business Incubator Model
• ‘
• Recognition of promising
business ideas
• Entrepreneur's will and
aims
• Presentation of incubator´s
services
• Developing the business idea
into a business plan
• Development of products or
services
• Financial calculations
• Locating and contacting
business partners
• Services for public and private
funding applications
• Services from advisers
• Regular meetings
• Training for entrepreneurs
• Contacts and networks for
business development
• Services for public and private
funding applications
• Services from advisers
• Business model
• Marketing / Sales
• Team / Shareholder
• Financial calculations,
profitability
• Financing
• Processes
• Personal
• Regular meetings

18.
Collective Commercialization of Ideas (CCI)
Dialogue and trust among companies, customers, universities and business developers
New business Development, Strategy, Internationalization, R&D, Funding, Management, HR
Needs and problems of
customers and end-users
Technical and operational
possibilities of the commercialization
body
Innovation development
Peak Projects
Business case analyzes
Additional research
Projecting
Application development
Incubation activities
Innovation surveys
Trends, market views
Surveys of needs
Technology roadmaps
New application
possibilities of technology
Innovation search
Product and service ideas
Laboratories
Legislation
Regulation
Industrial parties
Ideas for
new
solutions
New solutions, New technologies
products and
services
Productization
Ideas of
customers
ITERATION
Commercialization
Partnering
Needs,
problems
Product-service
preforms
Source: modfied from Eriksson, P., Vilhunen, J. and Voutilainen, K. (2014) ‘Incubation as co-creation: case
study of proactive technology business development’, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Management, Vol. 18, Nos. 5/6, pp.382–396.

19.
”Emerging fields –
Future possibilities”

20.
Games for Health Finland
Combining Health Technology and Games
• The Games for Health is concept and process of adding
games and game-like elements to promote individual
lifestyle decisions for tackling public health priorities like
physical activity and nutrition
• The concept empowers individuals to work with their
health improvement to establish personal health goals
• Games for Health is new emerging field that will provide
at best new innovative services and solutions for health
promotion and helps tackling public health challenges
from local communities to global networks

21.
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22.
”Testing in reallife
environment is
essential”

23.
The Emergency Services College
• The Emergency Services College provides education and training in its special
field under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior
• The Research and Development Unit’s fields of
research are amongst others accident prevention,
fire research and dangerous substances, the
application of information technology,
environmental risks and human behavior in
accidents
• Video: http://www.dreambroker.fi/w/07a0969a2
Source: The Emergency Services College

24.
“Unique 38-hectar-wide
training ground
for practical training”

25.
Training in close to real life conditions
• The training is done in conditions as close as possible to real
emergencies, for example, to extinguish various kinds of fires,
to carry out rescue assignments, prevent chemical accidents,
driving emergency vehicles as well as giving first aid to injured
and ill patients
• There are different kinds of training fields, special-purpose
buildings and class rooms
• The training ground is also used for joint disaster exercises of
the authorities
• The training ground has been designed to minimize the effects
on the environment
Source: The Emergency Services College

26.
Collaboration – Critical Factor
• Critical factor to create sustainable innovation ecosystem is committed multi-stakeholder
collaboration
• This collaboration requires joint understanding from
policy makers, community, business, research, education
and users
• It is essential to build network of ecosystems
combining not only nationwide ecosystems but
also European wide as well as global

27.
Human Security Finland
Bridging Gaps in Today’s World
Bosnia,
Kosovo
Chile
Central Asia and
Caucasus
Mosambique
Egypt
Zambia
Kenya
”Health Security - mHealth
Environment Security - Water
Food Security - Hygiene„

28.
“It’s all about
collaboration and
co-creation”

29.
THANK YOU
ARTO.HOLOPAINEN ”AT” KUOPIOINNOVATION.FI
WWW.KUOPIOINNOVATION.FI