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Development of Future Center: A Case Study

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The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations

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Innovation is vital if companies are to survive. This is particularly so when it comes to energy innovation. Companies and government as well as universities are actively seeking to develop and adopt of renewable energy technologies. Effective innovation requires collaboration between different types of companies (big companies, small and medium-sized companies, start-ups, customers, suppliers, consultants, manufacturers, service providers etc.) and other organizations (universities, research institutes, think tanks, public sector etc.) as well as consumers. To provide collaboration among the different stakeholders, the Future Center project is created to promote energy technology innovation in Vaasa. Future Center can be described a collaboration-based, future-oriented, creative and sustainable innovation environment for the companies and other organizations in Vaasa region’s energy technology cluster. This paper describes the development of the future center through the co creation of value and the lessons learned. It especially focuses on explaining the challenges and opportunities using knowledge management, value creation theories.

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  1. University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Timo Rossi, Lorna Uden & Marja Naaranoja

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  1. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

    Lorna Uden

  2. College of Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

    Leon S.L. Wang

  3. and Control Faculty of Science, Universidad Salamanca Department of Computing Science, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Chang Yang

  5. Department of Information Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

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Rossi, T., Uden, L., Naaranoja, M. (2014). Development of Future Center: A Case Study. In: Uden, L., Wang, L., Corchado Rodríguez, J., Yang, HC., Ting, IH. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7287-8_3

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