Tekesin aktiviteetit Yhdysvalloissa, erityisesti Piilaakson Bayalueella

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Tekesin aktiviteetit Yhdysvalloissa, erityisesti
(Piilaakson) Bay-alueella
10.9.2004 Riku Mäkelä riku.makela_at_tekes.fi
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California
HUB Access to Great Global Technology
Innovation and Business Networks
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USA

• East Coast
• MIT
• West Coast
• Los Angeles UCLA GAP Program, USC Mobile
  Media Institute
• Piilaakso Business, Stanford University
• Berkeley
• Finland-Berkeley Cooperation Program
• ICSI Agreement
• CITRIS ProgramPartnership

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Tekes San Jose cooperation

• Main partners
• UC Berkeley
• ICSI
• CITRIS
• Stanford
• UCLA
• GAP
• Other great friends, just to name few
• - Santa Clara Univ, UC SD, USC, UC SF, SJSU -
  MIT, NIST, NSF, USDA, DOE .

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UCLA GAP Strategy project for international
technology innovation
MBA group develops 6 months the business
strategy of a growth company and creates aVC
level business plan
2004 Genimap, Helsinki GoodMood,
Turku Imagetalk, Turku Lingsoft Turku Sulake,
Helsinki Teleste, Turku
-02-03 yritykset
200 km
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Los Angelesmobile/culture/content/media

• Marshall Joins New USC-Industry Mobile Media
  Coalition Six schools at the University of
  Southern California have joined to form the
  Mobile Media Institute, an endeavor that will
  produce new knowledge, art, business models and
  technology to shape the world of mobile media.

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Many players in Bay area

• Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Bay
  Area
• Tekes San Jose
• Finpro
• VTT Silicon Valley
• Finnish companies in Bay area
• International Business Incubator
• VC Community
• LBNL
• IFTF
• Woodside Institute
• Silicon Valley and San Francisco organizations
  Events

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Finland-Berkeley platform
3rdparties
Mech Eng
Space Lab
LBNL
HAAS
Public Health
Law School
EECS
Environm. design
BWRC
ICSI
BISC
CHESS
BID
BSAC
Civil Eng.
Chemistry
BRIE
Åbo-BISC
TUT-ICSI
maximizingWIN-WIN
EXPECTATIONS
EECS ILP
CITRIS
BRIE-proj.
ICSI
TRUST
3rdparties
ETLA
HUT
VTT
HIIT
TUT
Åbo Academi
Univ of Lappeenranta
Univ of Helsinki
TeliaSonera
Nokia
KTM
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Visiting Finnish researchers
40
Visiting researchers at UCB (cumulative)Including
only ones working at projects partly funded by
TEKES or Academy.
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20
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2000
2001
2002
2004
2003
Before 2000, tens of Finnish visiting researchers
have worked at Berkeley. Annual numbers
accelerated in 2000.
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Finland Berkeley Cooperation Program

• The program facilitates and supports cooperative
  research projects between research groups in
  Finland and San Francisco Bay area, focusing to
  Berkeley
• Goals are to
• strengthen research groups
• find new research subjects and combinations
• createNew business based on projects
• clear processes for researcher exchange
• create higher interest towards Finnish research
• The program covers facilitation and IPR issues
  for cooperative research
• Emphasis on multi-disciplinary research and
  emerging research areas
• Started 2000, this far over 40 visiting
  researchers in cooperation projects

Active alumni network in Bay area and in Finland !
Main bridges ICSI and CITRIS
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ICSI and CITRIS

• Tekes made an agreement with ICSI (International
  Computer Science Institute) in 2000
• 5 research posts at ICSI annually for visiting
  researchers
• clarified process for VISAs, IP issues, etc
• CITRIS program is a large research program
  consisting of over 100 researchers and projects
• CITRIS helps with Tekes in building up
  cooperation projects
• Tekes and CITRIS will have a Master Research
  Cooperation Agreement to use as an IPR
  agreement in cooperation projects

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WHAT IS CITRIS?

• Collaborative effort with
• UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz,
  LBNL, LLNL
• Many industrial partners
• Significant State and private support
• Three companion Californian centers CNSI,
  CalIT2, QB3
• CITRIS focuses on using IT to provide solutions
  to grand-challenge social and commercial
  problems affecting the quality of life of
  Californians and people around the world

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CURRENT APPLICATION AREAS
EDUCATION
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND HOMELAND DEFENSE
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
HEALTH CARE
SERVICE TO THIRD WORLD USING IT
SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES, AND BUSINESS
TRANSPORTATION
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CITRIS A Public Private Partnership

• Consortium of
• University and Research Institutions
• IT Industry Partners
• Venture Community
• IT Technology Partners (mainly start-ups)
• Stakeholders from Government, DoD, Power,
  Transportation, Financial, Telecom sectors
• International Partners
• Dedicated to developing the research, technology,
  and their transition into products for Societal
  Scale Systems and the Emerging Infrastructure of
  tomorrow.

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UC Berkeley and CITRISCenter for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society?
for Finns a new possible cooperation vehicle


Academy of Finland
CITRIS
HP
IBM
ST Microelectronics Corp
VTT
Microsoft
Ericsson
UC
TEKES
Infineon
SITRA
Sun Microsystems
UC Berkeley
Agilent
Texas Instruments
universities
UC Santa Cruz
Conexant Systems
ICSI
Intel
UC Merced
Kalifornian osavaltio
Vodafone
companies
Nortel Networks
UC Davis
Siemens
CITRIS- project
Finnishresearchproject
LBNL
Applied Materials
Mayfield
co-opproj
NSF
HS ARPA
DARPA
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Our goals in research cooperation

• Cooperation in program / center / network level
• Cooperation in project level
• Maximizing the WIN for each party

Access to Great Global Innovation and Business
Networks
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More information

• Finland-Berkeley www.tekes.fi/berkeley
• CITRIS Program www.citris.berkeley.edu
• UCLA GAP http//www.tekes.fi/kv_yhteistyo/globaal
  i/ucla.html
• Mobile Media Institute (www.usc.edu)
• Tekes / Finland-Berkeley GAP
• Hki ilpo.reitmaa_at_tekes.fi
• Tre jouko.salo_at_tekes.fi
• CA riku.makela_at_tekes.fi
• VTT / Berkeley
• CA ext-kaarlo.heiskanen_at_vtt.fi
• Finpro
• CA jussi.heinila_at_finpro.fi
• Los Angeles Consulate / MMI
• stefan.lindstrom_at_formin.fi
• All subjects and Fenix
• klaus.oesch_at_finantec.fi, marko.heikkinen_at_tekes.fi

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Summary

• Access to Great Global Innovation and Business
  Networks
• Internationalization of companies
• Contact networks
• Development programs
• Research cooperation
• in project level
• in technology program level
• ? when looking abroad make at least a benchmark
  check in California