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Report ties together different aspects… The fundamental business values and opportunities for (more) digitalized engineering report ties together different aspects related to doing business with digital twins in the pulp and paper industrial engineering and processing contexts. These practical aspects have been identified, and the understanding in them has been developed during the SEED project especially in […]

In the near future, the continuity of ecosystem will proceed under SEEDForest activities.

Erkki Siira

How could we evaluate new product concepts to get a better insight if the concepts could be scaled up? To give tools for the evaluation a set of properties affecting scaling up have been identified to help in go/no-go decisions. Quantification of scale up properties give possibilities to compare different concepts to each other.

Jukka Kääriäinen, Pasi Valkokari & Katri Valkokari

Innovation ecosystems are complex undertakings where group of organisations with different backgrounds and often even representing different industrial domains work together to develop new innovative solutions. Since there are group of organisations working collaboratively this setting requires that the ecosystem has common terminology and clear roles, responsibilities and practices how to operate towards shared purpose. This is not easy task since different interests, as well as actors’ different expectations and mind-sets, may hinder the collaboration.

Marinka Lanne, Janika Miettinen & Katariina Palomäki

Sustainable business has come to stay and companies are now striving for both economically viable and socially and environmentally sustainable solutions and business. This inevitably leads to cross-pressures. Companies have to choose which societal or environmental challenges they grasp and with what intensity. Prioritization is challenging, especially as the operating environment is constantly changing and evolving. However, sustainability and responsibility of business is now a key requirement that needs to guide and even be integrated in companies’ strategies. Tensions offer opportunities for renewal.

Katri Valkokari, Helena Kortelainen, Jutta Nyblom, Anu Purhonen, Daniel Pakkala, Nikolaos Papakostantinou, Pasi Valkokari & Pertti Saariluoma

SEED is ecosystemic joint action that bring together the pulp, paper, board and tissue manufacturers, engineering companies, technology suppliers and IT sector.