The document discusses co-operation between the cities of Kuopio and private companies in Finland to promote innovation in future health, wellbeing, and related industries. Specifically: 1) The Innovative Cities (INKA) programme facilitates co-operation between cities and companies to generate innovations, practical solutions, new business opportunities, and knowledge sharing. 2) Key focus areas include bioeconomy, smart cities, renewable energy, and digital wellbeing services to support aging populations. 3) Example projects involve developing e-solutions to improve home care (TULETKO), personalized nutrition for the elderly (MAVIRE), and intelligent lighting/thermal comfort to support dementia patients' housing (VALMUSKA

1. FUTURE HEALTH –
CO-OPERATION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
SECTORS IN KUOPIO
Anneli Tuomainen, Johanna Jylhä-Ollila
WHO European Healthy Cities Networks Annual Business and
Technical Conference
24-26 June 2015, Kuopio, Finland
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2. Innovative Cities (INKA) programme
Co-operation between cities and private
companies
INNOVATIVE CITIES – FUTURE HEALTH
Find best
expertise
and
strengths
Innovations
practical
solutions
Generate
new
business
Transfer
know-how
of the
cities

3. Bioeconomy
Future health and wellbeing KUOPIO
Smart city and renewable industry
Energy and cleantec
Kuopio co-operates with other Finnish university hospital
cities (Oulu, Tampere, Turku and Helsinki)
INKA PROGRAMME THEMES

4. FUTURE HEALTH – COOPERATION BETWEEN THE CITIES
AND COMPANIES
New and innovative ways to help a companys’ products
Help products enter the market or test environment
Get references and develop their products
OULUHELSINKIKUOPIO TAMPERE TURKU

5. Development of health ecosystems
Promoting health technology export sector
Developing digital well-being services
Homecare as commercialization platform
Campus areas as innovation platform for companies
Biobanks as innovation platform for companies
WHAT ARE CITIES DEALING WITH?

6. TULETKO PROJECT
Coordinated by the city of
Kuopio (Kaija Kokkonen)
Main targets
New E-solutions that help
contact between home care
patients, their family and
healthcare professionals
New solutions for the
existing city systems
More time to patients
NEW SOLUTIONS FOR HOME CARE CLIENTS

7. Smart public innovation procurement
city and companies discuss all the time and try find the
best solutions
Real test environment Mäntycampus
INNOVATIVE PROCECUREMENT

8. MAVIRE PROJECT
Food companies develop better
food solutions and snacks
Coordinated by the University of
Eastern Finland (Riitta Törrönen)
and collaboration with the City
of Kuopio, Servica Food Services
and the companies
PERSONALIZED NUTRITION FOR THE WELLBEING OF
ELDERLY PEOPLE

9. VALMUSKA PROJECT
Supporting housing of dementia patients by intelligent lighting and
thermal comfort
9 companies and cities of Kuopio and Oulu
Coordinated by VTT (, University of Eastern Finland, University of
Oulu
SUPPORTING HOUSING AND CARE SERVICE

10. THANK YOU!
FUTURE –
what next?

11. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!