Health Kuopio Programme

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Health Kuopio Programme
Health Kuopio Centre of expertise for health
and wellness expertise Research, services and
business 4.11.2004 Mr. Heikki Helve Programme
director
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What is The Health Kuopio?
The Health Kuopio is a programme, which aim is to
answer for future demands of service provider and
regional development by a novel way by creating
an innovative model between services, business
opportunities and R D activities. The Kuopio
region wants to be a pioneer of creating
co-operational model in health and wellness.
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Health Kuopio Programme
Mission Health and wellness expertise creates
better services and more effective business
opportunities Vision Kuopio - leading European
centre of excellence for health and wellness
expertise in 2012
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Participants
Kuopio towards a centre of excellence for
health and wellness expertise in Europe
Kuopio University Technology Centre Teknia
Ltd. City of Kuopio Enterprises Kuopio University
Hospital Savonia Polytechnic The North Savo
RegionalConsortium for Education The Kuopio
region The third sector
2012
2004
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Kuopion Science Park Region
Health Environment Well-being
The Valley of Health and Wellness Expertise
11 500 students 8 400 employees 170 enterprises
University Hospital
Canthia
Medistudia
Polytechnic
Mediteknia
Studentia
Snellmania
Tietoteknia
Bioteknia 1, 2
GTK
Neulanen
Microteknia 1,2,3
Centek
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The aims of the programme
Development of the health and wellness
expertise Kuopios recognized status as a
pre-eminent centre in Europe in
2012 Commercialization of the health and wellness
expertise Major increases in business turnover
and exports Application of health and wellness
expertise Ensuring of service supply which is
first-rate, versatile and based on the latest
facts
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Matching the focuses
HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPERTISE Need for
applicationof research
Health Kuopio Programme is searching for partners
and financing possibilities in its major interest
groups and projects. The projects are focusing on
new openings of health and wellness. The Kuopio
region develops actively new production models
and forms of cooperation.
KUOPION REGION
TESTBED
HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES Need for
developmentof services
HEALTH KUOPIO
HEALTH AND WELLNESS BUSINESS Need for testing
andnew markets
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Main themes of the programme

• Healthy ageing
• eHealth
• Health care technology (inl. usability)
• Health promotion
• Health and medicine tourism
• Topics are based on high level research, demand
  from service side and business potential

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Principles of action

• Aim is to co-ordinate and support actions which
  consist essential parts of the development ring
  in each topics. For example
• Healthy ageing
• Mediteknia (University)
• Senior house Levänen (city)
• Commercialization by Teknia
• Ltd. (healt care technology)
• eHealth
• Centek (ICT R D Env.)
• Model hospital (Univ. Hospital)
• Wellteknia (Teknia Ltd.)
• Joint tasks
• principles of co-operation
• generate new projects
• education
• marketing and bulletin

R D -environments
KUOPION REGION
TESTBED
Development of services
HEALTH KUOPIO
Business opportunities
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Health Kuopio steps to success
Health Kuopio programme coordinates the
integration
International and national markets
Health Kuopio project model
Kuopio testbed Regional markets
Kuopio health and wellness expertise
Utilize the unique health and wellness
infrastructure and resources of the Kuopio
region.
New co-operation between public, private and
third sector, using latest technology, sharing
common targets
Kuopio region will make use of the latest
research to develop its own health care and
social services
Effective international networking will ensure
fruitful collaboration and mutual interaction
with other centres of excellence throughout the
world
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Some examples of projects

• Healthy ageing projects
• eHealth projects
• Model hospital
• Healthy usability (C-HAT)
• WellTeknia operational environment
• Healthy weight reduction
• Healthy childhood
• Health and medicine tourism projects
• development of R D environments

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Funding of the projects

• funding tailored to each projects
• all levels funding needed
• local, regional, national and international
• EU structural funds can be real activator fund
• innovation system support is essential
• co-operational model between actors

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Welfare and business environment policy

• arguments for mutual benefits
• The wellbeing of the municipal and regional
  economy is dependent upon the vitality of the
  local commercial enterprises
• Enterprises will seek out regions with desirable
  expertise and which also have readyness to
  produce it more in the future -gt region of
  procedure and skillful use
• Support for new fields of growth, this is
  anticipated to bring new enterprises, jobs, and
  through them, also an increase in tax revenues
  (incl. research-based industries)
• Pilot environments important for both development
  of services and commercial product development
• Creation of networks in selected fields of growth
  are an important tool of the business environment
  policy

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Benefits of utilization

• The benefits of the model of Health Kuopio
  Programme
• R D operators application and assessment of
  results
• enterprises a real pilot environment and
  preferential assistence
• municipalities activation of service processes
• Kuopio region wants to be a pilot region for good
  practices in health and wellness development in EU

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The Kuopio region as a developer

• We want to be in wellbeing
• the region with a solid combination of services,
  research, product development and enterprise
  activities
• groundbreaking (eliminating the boundaries
  between administrative, regional, international
  and activity sectors)
• innovator and pilot area with strategic
  partnerships (networked nationally and
  internationally EU, China, Russia, North
  America)

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Thank you for your attention!
Join us in creating wealth and welfare in Europe
Heikki Helve Development Manager Programme
Director of the Health Kuopio Programme E-mail
heikki.helve_at_kuopio.fi Tel. [phone]