Networking

Tekes welcomes international partners to join its innovation network to find new solutions to common challenges. Tekes is one of the gateways to collaborating with the most important research and development partners in Finland.

Tekes programmes – part of the innovation chain

Tekes programmes have proven an effective form of cooperation and networking for businesses, universities and research institutes wishing to develop innovative products, processes and services.

They boost development in specific sectors of technology or industry, and the results of the research projects are passed on to businesses systematically. The programmes also provide excellent frameworks for international R&D cooperation.

Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation

The network of Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation offers top research institutes and businesses a new way of engaging in close, long-term cooperation.

In these Strategic Centres, businesses, universities and research institutes can agree on joint research plans, which are geared at solving the challenges of practical application by businesses within a 5–10-year timescale.

International programmes and networks

Tekes has built up a global partnership network of leading universities and other innovation partners around the world.

Tekes’s global operations are part of the FinNode Innovation Centre network that boosts international R&D cooperation and business. Tekes is also the nodal point of many European research activities in Finland.