TY - BOOK
T1 - Smarctic - A roadmap to a smart Arctic specialisation
AU - Ahlqvist, Toni
AU - Ahokangas, Petri
AU - Atkova, Irina
AU - Alasaarela, Erkki
AU - Bräysy, Timo
AU - Caló, Antonio
AU - Haapala, Antti
AU - Hentilä, Helka-Liisa
AU - Heikkinen, Hannu
AU - Juga, Jari
AU - Kaivo-oja, Jari
AU - Keränen, Heikki
AU - Keränen, Virpi
AU - Kettunen, Hanne
AU - Leinonen, Anna
AU - Myllylä, Yrjö
AU - Niskanen, Ilpo
AU - Pohjosenperä, Timo
AU - Pongrácz, Eva
AU - Rautio, Arja
AU - Rintamäki, Hannu
AU - Rusanen, Jarmo
AU - Seppänen, Veikko
AU - Suojärvi, Hannu
AU - Sundqvist, Henna
AU - Valjus, Anniina
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this project, we have introduced a vision of the
future and created a roadmap for maintaining and further
developing Finnish arctic expertise. Around 4 million
people live in the Arctic regions and the attractiveness
of the region internationally has increased
significantly in recent years. Behind this interest are
drivers of global change such as climate change, energy
demand, oil/raw material prices, tourism, new
bio-economic structures, global transport, urbanisation,
world population growth and development of
technologies. Arctic regions are characterised by long
distances, remoteness, isolation, sparse population
and difficult climate conditions, as well as cultural
diversity and traditional lifestyles. however, the Arctic
region has to be a world leader in productivity in order
to develop competitiveness successfully. this is also a
prerequisite for securing human services in the area.
product development requires the utilisation of the
latest technology and novel innovations. Our vision is
sustainable and smart economic activity, which safeguards
the long-term welfare of societies
and ecosystems in the Arctic region. The roadmap
developed in this project has four layers, which describe
the landscape drivers, operational environment, strategic
challenges and paths for the implementation of the
Finnish strategy for Arctic region. The four proposed
strategy paths are: Spearhead strategy: Arctic marine
technology and maritime transport - a focused strategy
that emphasises traditional Finnish competences in ship
building and maritime industry set in the Arctic context;
Flying geese approach: emerging Arctic path ways - a
widened strategy emphasising selected number of strong
competence fields relating to the Arctic context; Culture
of Arctic experimentation - a strategy emphasising
principles of experimentation in innovation policy and in
the field of Arctic competences; and Snowdrift
strategy: fading Arctic business - the Arctic does not
form a credible focus of activities and is forgotten or
set as a subordinate perspective inside some other topic.
Arctic business opportunities and potential can be
identified in relation to the people who are living and
working in, as well as visiting the Arctic regions. Such
applications as "Winternet of things", self-monitoring
devices, nordlab and e-hedalth would bring new users for
solutions developed by companies. the future energy
business will in great part be based on smart grid
dedicated, ICt-based services. the integration of
bioeconomy and metallurgical industries might bring
interesting opportunities to increase material and energy
efficiency.
AB - In this project, we have introduced a vision of the
future and created a roadmap for maintaining and further
developing Finnish arctic expertise. Around 4 million
people live in the Arctic regions and the attractiveness
of the region internationally has increased
significantly in recent years. Behind this interest are
drivers of global change such as climate change, energy
demand, oil/raw material prices, tourism, new
bio-economic structures, global transport, urbanisation,
world population growth and development of
technologies. Arctic regions are characterised by long
distances, remoteness, isolation, sparse population
and difficult climate conditions, as well as cultural
diversity and traditional lifestyles. however, the Arctic
region has to be a world leader in productivity in order
to develop competitiveness successfully. this is also a
prerequisite for securing human services in the area.
product development requires the utilisation of the
latest technology and novel innovations. Our vision is
sustainable and smart economic activity, which safeguards
the long-term welfare of societies
and ecosystems in the Arctic region. The roadmap
developed in this project has four layers, which describe
the landscape drivers, operational environment, strategic
challenges and paths for the implementation of the
Finnish strategy for Arctic region. The four proposed
strategy paths are: Spearhead strategy: Arctic marine
technology and maritime transport - a focused strategy
that emphasises traditional Finnish competences in ship
building and maritime industry set in the Arctic context;
Flying geese approach: emerging Arctic path ways - a
widened strategy emphasising selected number of strong
competence fields relating to the Arctic context; Culture
of Arctic experimentation - a strategy emphasising
principles of experimentation in innovation policy and in
the field of Arctic competences; and Snowdrift
strategy: fading Arctic business - the Arctic does not
form a credible focus of activities and is forgotten or
set as a subordinate perspective inside some other topic.
Arctic business opportunities and potential can be
identified in relation to the people who are living and
working in, as well as visiting the Arctic regions. Such
applications as "Winternet of things", self-monitoring
devices, nordlab and e-hedalth would bring new users for
solutions developed by companies. the future energy
business will in great part be based on smart grid
dedicated, ICt-based services. the integration of
bioeconomy and metallurgical industries might bring
interesting opportunities to increase material and energy
efficiency.
KW - artic
KW - roadmap
KW - smart
KW - specialisation
M3 - Report
SN - 978-952-62-0652-3
BT - Smarctic - A roadmap to a smart Arctic specialisation
PB - Thule Institute
ER -