Articles

1 2

23.2.2010 Article	Rauni Hagman: Entering the 2010s As we enter the new decade, general interest has turned to predicting future trends. The prospects for the development in communication technologies and services are particularly fascinating. »
13.1.2010 Media release	Päivi Antikainen: Values in the information society Recent discussion on the information society has been heated. Assessments of the state of the Finnish information society have been quite unanimous, even though the voice of the commercial sector has been the loudest. »
26.11.2009 Article	Kari Rissa: Enormous potential for more efficient energy usage in Russia Industrial production and ageing buildings in Russia consume incredible amounts of energy. Consequently, they also contain an enormous saving potential. The challenge is lack of funding. »
30.9.2009 Article	Sari Baldauf: Seeking the sources of vitality What will support and conversely prevent Finland from becoming an agile ‘little giant’ that is part of a Europe and a world of radical changes? We hope to have a wide-ranging debate on these themes during the new process started by Sitra called the Wellsprings of Finnish Vitality. »
22.6.2009 Article	Helka-Liisa Hentilä: Energy and Climate Issues Lead to Changes in Design A plethora of changes in technology, culture and economics has influenced the design of the built environment, communities and buildings. Over the past hundred years design has been less concerned with the impact of construction on the local climate and environment. »
27.5.2009 Article	Petri Lehto: User orientation – the new challenge for innovation policy What is a user orientation? What does integrating a user orientation as part of the innovation policy mean in concrete terms? These questions will be examined in the innovation strategy’s implementation stage that is underway. »
21.4.2009 Media release	Timo Nikinmaa: Networking production creates growth opportunities Finnish companies in the mechanical industry have been very successful in the global market. As a result of the global recession, the sector’s prospects in the near term are not as good as we would hope. However, in the longer term, subcontractors and component suppliers in the mechanical industry will again have promising growth opportunities, even if they will soon encounter new challenges as well. »
8.4.2009 Article	Kimmo Tiilikainen: Natural Resources Strategy a challenge for the government Alongside the economic crisis, the world is simultaneously undergoing a climate crises, energy crisis and a food crisis. All these involve living beyond the resources. Sustainable economic growth cannot be built on the old model. New solutions are needed. »
30.3.2009 Article	Antti Moisio: The municipality structure change is essential The financial crisis is causing major issues in the economies of municipalities when tax revenues decrease drastically. The acute shortage of financing can be remedied with state subsidies, but long-term issues must be addressed by using more powerful means than before. »
29.1.2009 Article	Companies need to predict the future skilfully and systematically A predictive approach gives companies time and room to manoeuvre to take advantage of and even direct the changes taking place in the markets. »
6.11.2008 Article	Veijo Meriläinen: Today’s challenges in the food industry International markets are always a challenge for actors coming from small countries. For Finland, its greatest challenges are focused on Russia. The key to success in the market is reaching consumers, which continually creates new challenges. »
7.10.2008 Media release	Juha Teperi: Prisoner of words? The name Michael E. Porter will be familiar to everyone who knows something about business management. More than sixty editions of the most popular bestsellers written by the strategy guru have been printed. Words such as clusters, competitive forces and competitive advantage have crept into the language of laypeople too, and all are concepts that have been raised by Porter. »
1.9.2008 Article	Ossi Kuittinen: Anthropocentric technology – Finland's new success story There is enough work for hundreds of new builders of the service infrastructure facilitating a good life. »
23.6.2008 Article	Krister Ahlström: The Design Paradigm Shift The world is becoming flat (& hot & hungry), as famously suggested by Tom Friedman. His central theme is that production of goods and certain services will be redistributed globally, e.g. a soft-ware provider in India can and does compete effectively with its western competitor. In this sense the world is now flat. »
28.5.2008 Article	More Clear Skies for China The air in the major cities of China is hazy with pollution, and the rivers and lakes are contaminated with poisons and wastewater. China has sixteen of the world’s twenty most polluted cities. In the coming decades, however, more blues skies are hopefully in sight for China’s badly polluted cities. »
21.4.2008 Article	Hannele Ahti: Scholarships for India co-operation available just on time From the very beginning, the Sitra Fellowshisp programme aroused a lot of interest in inviting Indian researchers to Finland, which shows that researchers have many contacts across national boundaries. Mobility, too, is now increasing. »
19.3.2008 Article	Arpad Horvath: Sustainability of Built Environment - The Paradigm Shift of Our Generation The new paradigm is: The future has to be based on sustainability principles. It is the most significant investment we have undertaken. How far will it take us? »
22.2.2008 Article	Annaleena Soult: European food industry markets focus on health Fads come and go, some faster than the others. This is also true of food industry markets, where exotic specialties, regional delicacies, and fair-trade and organic products compete for shelf space in our groceries. But there is one trend that is above all others: health. »
22.1.2008 Article	Vesa Harmaakorpi: Is Finnish innovation policy utilising 4% or 96% of Finnish innovation potential? Innovation processes and environments are in a state of constant flux. The role of applying scientific findings and technologies in closed research and development environments is diminishing. According to the Innovation in Europe survey, only some four percent of innovations are based on academic research. »
4.12.2007 Article	Seppo Kääriäinen: Near the pinnacle of power In its 40 years of existence, Sitra has worked close to the top of Finland’s political leadership. It has done so independently, on its own terms. »
1 2

News search »

Sitra	Contact information	Search
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund Finland’s competitiveness and the well-being of its people depend on deep, broad-ranging changes. Sitra engages in foresight activities and advances these changes in cooperation with other actors. Through programmes and strategic processes, Sitra grasps the challenges that are most crucial for Finland. Sitra is an independent public foundation with a mission to build a successful Finland for tomorrow.	Itämerentori 2, PL 160, 00181 Helsinki Phone: +358 9 618 991, Fax: +358 9 645 072 Email address: firstname.lastname@sitra.fi or sitra@sitra.fi Location on the map Sitra on Facebook Sitra on Twitter	Search web content Publication search