Innovation System

Innovation system is a complex network of actors and institutions in the public and private sector whose activities and interactions generate, import, modify and diffuse new technologies.

Why to build innovation system? It brings competitiveness to the region and to the country. Finland is the best example of the country, which achieved strong competitiveness advantage in relatively short time by building own innovation system. As an evidence of results for a number of years Finland is among the first 10 most competitive and most innovative countries  according to the World Economic Forum, the Lisbon Review and the European Innovation Scoreboard. Nowadays Finland is famous not only for Santa Claus and lakes, but also for Nokia, Linux, Kone, innovative pulp and paper and mining sectors, various ecological innovation. The innovations give competitive advantage on the international level.

How to develop innovation system? Each development starts from understanding. InnoPraxis helps to analyze the innovation system potential, understand the bottlenecks for its developments and identify the opportunities. We have developed easy and comprehensive methodology, involving many stakeholders, it is based on our expert experience, unique system of surveys and on-site meetings. Learn more from innovation potential analysis.

How to manage innovation system development in long-term? Management and coordination of innovation system development is a hard task because it includes many stakeholders. This includes innovation policies, strategies and implementation. One of the options is to coordinate through innovation policy national or regional innovation council. InnoPraxis is also helping in developing innovation policies and strategies, as well as running operations of innovation council, facilitation of joint vision creation, sharing international experience.