KIP Competence Center - feasibility study of research innovation environment

The goal of the KIP Competence Center project is to create new competence in the Kokkola region and strengthen the existing research innovation environment and thus increase the number of research-oriented experts to strengthen the region's business activities. The goal is to create a common research innovation environment for companies and the university, which promotes the birth of new spin-off companies, strengthens current R&D activities at the business-university interface, and promotes the attractiveness, competitiveness, and employment of the region. In the project, a needs and implementation report will be prepared for the Competence Center and a common operating model will be created. The results of the project will be published as a preliminary report. 

The KIP Competence Center strengthens the KIP region as an attractive industrial park and, on the other hand, promotes the development of the KIP Competence Center as an innovation environment where new innovations based on scientific research are born, renewing the area's current business activities and creating new business activities and new and renewing jobs. Solutions like the KIP Competence Center do not exist elsewhere in Finland, but there are several centers of expertise operating at the university-business interface around the world, whose operating models and effectiveness are also benchmarked in the project. The goal of the KIP Competence Center is also to contribute to promoting the marketing of the region, and to be a calling card promoting the recognition and attractiveness of the region from the perspective of research in the directions of various stakeholders