South-West Finland

Learn from the best

The Southwest Finland Centre of Expertise supports the region’s traditional strengths in pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries, shipyard industry, and food industry. Comprehensive IT expertise is an important element in the development of all other lines of business as well, and it is also closely linked to the branding of services in creative and culture fields.

Well-functioning co-operation between industry and academic research creates an innovation environment that will become a target of research and development investments for foreign companies, too. Co-operation with the best international experts of biosciences and medicine – such as the joint venture with the Swedish Karolinska Institutet and co-operation with the German Heidelberg Technologiepark – contributes to strengthening the expertise base in Southwest Finland and the whole country.

In the programme period 2007–2013 Turku Region participates in six different Competence Clusters: HealthBio cluster, Maritime cluster, Tourism and Experience Management cluster, Food Development cluster, Living Business cluster, and Nanotechnology cluster.

Contact details

Turku Science Park Oy
Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 B
20520 Turku
Tel. +358 (0)2 8803 100
http://www.turkusciencepark.com

N. Tapani Saarinen
Vice President, Business Development
Tel. +358 400 525 308
n.tapani.saarinen(at)turkusciencepark.com