VTT Growth Lab on Industrial Renewal, 2 April 2019, opening by Antti Vasara and Kalle Kantola, VTT

1. Industrial
Renewal
Antti Vasara
President & CEO, VTT
Kalle Kantola
Vice President, Research, VTT

2. Global
challenges are
growth
opportunities
for innovative
minds
Growth with
sustainable
innovations
Good life
Improved quality
of life and work
Industrial renewal
Innovations
empowering
industry
Resource
sufficiency
Prosperity from
resource
wisdom
Climate action
Clean energy
for the future
Safety and
security
Resiliency in
turbulent world

3. The industrial sector
creates roughly In Finland
1,1 million
jobs
46%
of our GDP
value
¼
of global employment
¼
of global GDP

4. ¼of global emissions
15 Gt
annual GHG emissions
The industrial sector
creates roughly

5. Disruptive
businesses
Re-birth of
production
Design for
future
VTT aims to create
innovations, which:
1. Significantly increase competitiveness
of Finnish industry and
2. Enable it to transform towards
sustainable, sub-zero emission
processes and
1. Create agility & business model to
efficiently react and drive changes in
customers needs.

6. Did you know that
2015
50%
of B2B purchase
decision by
millennials
90%
of millennials
want to use their
skills for good
Currently, 50
percent of the
globe population
is under 30
Millennials will change the B2B and
the industry of the future will be different

7. Thank you!
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