Finland – Tivit Programs

Overall Scope

Tivit (Strategic Center for Science, Technology and Innovation in the field of ICT) Programs

Tivit was founded 2008 by a group made up of forty six different firms, universities or public bodies. The centre coordinates an annual investment of approximately fifty million euros in research and in development of ecosystems based on ICT technology. The Tivit coordinated programs address several short, medium and long term issues of the Internet infrastructure, which are essential both for Finnish industry and helps in the recovery of the economic crisis.

Currently running Tivit programmes are ‘Future Internet’ (FI), ‘Device and Interoperability Ecosystems’ (DIEM), ‘Cooperative Traffic’ (CT), ‘Next Media’ (NM), and ‘Cloud Software’ (CSW). Together these programmes cover basically the whole area of European “Future Internet”-PPP. Descriptions of the programmes can be found at www.tivit.fi

R&D Scope

The programs aim at pre-competitive industrial research domain with a strong emphasis on business creation.

The scopes are shortly describes by the visions and missions of programs:

Future Internet:

Vision: Future Internet = a mission critical backbone of global information society

Mission: Enhance the Internet technology and ecology as a platform for innovation while providing strong governance over the use of the network resources and information

Devices and Interoperability Ecosystem:

Vision: Physical space will be interactive and intelligent

Mission: Open embedded data in various devices to applications to create local services in millions of places.

Co-operative Traffic:

Vision: Traffic 2.0: Future traffic can be seen as a web of cooperative traffic services, where devices, vehicles and infrastructures are context aware and capable of providing the needed information seamlessly and on time.

Mission: To create new global ICT based business ecosystem for cooperative traffic

Cloud SW:

Vision: By 2015 the Finnish software industry will substantially increase the value of its software assets due to it’s world-class capability and know-how to efficiently and competitively develop, deliver and use software competencies with a focus on defining, building and utilizing software assets and new ecosystems that have the largest sustainable value add for the global business.

Mission: Value adding by cloud software, defining and implementing open cloud solution, lean transformation of SW-companies

Next Media:

Vision: Next Media vision is that by 2020 Finnish media industry has become Ahti of the global Media Ocean by achieving breakthroughs in business models, concepts and technology and by penetrating into new business areas

Mission: Implement a radical renewal of media business value chain in Finland

The ultimate aim of the work undertaken at Tivit is to increase the speed at which know-how in the ICT sector progresses and at which innovations and the results of research are adopted by the business community. This aim remains central to Tivit’s work and the active guidance of industry, the fact that Tivit remains focused and Tivit’s creation of international breakthroughs in important areas on the very cutting edge of our sector all ensure that Tivit never loses sight of its goals.

Expected Impact

The contributions will come through the novel business ecosystems created in the programs. No direct strategy exists for addressing some specific societal impacts.

Involved Constituency

The partners of Tivit proram consortia represent key Finnish players in the Finnish telecom and datacom industry both from service provider and vendor side as well as key research institutes on the area. Currently, there are over 100 organizations participating in the programs. Each program is lead by a driving company (like NSN, IBM, Nokia). Funding is coming from Tekes, Academy of Finland and EU-programs.