FinNano 2005-2010

Tekes USA promotes Finnish-American R&D cooperation; be it academic research cooperation, licencing, investment funding or corporate R&D partnerships.

FinNode is a community that provides business and technology resources for North American companies. Whether you are looking for expertise in international expansion, an R&D partner, specific IP to license, or just a hot-shot group of programmers to re-architect your application for a mobile environment, you can find it here.

FinNode is one of 51 resource centers worldwide sponsored by the country of Finland. Why Finland? Because Finland is home to hundreds of subsidiaries of Silicon Valley and North American companies – companies like IBM, Digital Chocolate, Honeywell and Hewlett-Packard. Because Finland has twice as many researchers per capita as the United States. Because Finland is one of the top-3 leading knowledge economies according to the World Bank.

USA National Nanotechnology Initiative

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) budget report for 2009 has been released and provides $1.5 billion for nanotechnology research and development (R&D), reflecting steady growth in investments by NNI member agencies as the Initiative enters its eighth year.

New strategic plan for the work of the National Nanotechnology Initiative has been released by the interagency Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology. The 2007 NNI Strategic Plan describes the vision, goals, and priorities of the NNI. Through the approach described in this new Strategic Plan, the NNI will ensure that the United States derives growing economic benefits and improved quality of life for its citizens, and remains a global leader in nanotechnology R&D in the years to come.

International collaboration is important part of the FinNano programme. FinNano welcomes USA - Finland collaborative projects. Funding will be directed to industry and research-industry co-operation projects. Fundable international projects must have a common objective and shared tasks. Rights for the results and utilisation of the results have to agree among the participants. Consortia must consist of at least two applicants from two different countries. Each party will be funded primarily by their own sources. Note that Tekes can fund only Finnish project partners.

Markku Lämsä
Tekes
FinNano Programme Manager
markku.lamsa@tekes.fi
tel. +358 10 60 55793

FinNano collected experiences from NSTI Nanotech 2007 for US strategy

FinNano visited the largest nanotechnology event in the US, NSTI Nanotech 2007. The purpose of the trip was to collect learnings in order to construct a strategy for FinNano US activities. Full international activities plan will be announced during August.

A Finnish delegation attended the NSTI Nanotech event in Santa Clara in May 2007. The conference is organized by the Nano Science and Technology Institute, an independent organization based in Boston. This was the tenth year of the event, and in that time it has grown to become the largest nanotechnology conference in the US, with well over 3000 participants and 150 exhibitors. The Finnish delegation included nine participants, who attended sessions and met with many interesting research groups and companies.

NSTI Nanotech 2008

FinNano organised a national delegation participation for the US, NSTI Nanotech 2008. Nanotech 2008, the largest and most comprehensive technical and business event in nanotechnology world-wide with over 30 technical and business symposia. In 2008 the event took place in Boston, Massachusetts during 1 -5 June 2008.

USA - Finland nanotechnology collaboration

Tekes United States

USA National Nanotechnology Initiative

FinNano collected experiences from NSTI Nanotech 2007 for US strategy

NSTI Nanotech 2008