TIVIT

TIVIT is a Finnish R&D management service company in the area of ICT, founded in 2008 and based in Espoo, Finland. TIVIT was established to serve as a so-called "strategic centre", as part of the implementation of a 2006 decision by the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland on the sectors in which such strategic centres were to be established.
Mode of operation
TIVIT offers a collaborative R&D platform for Finnish companies and research organizations in the area of ICT, to implement Strategic Research Agendas (SRA) comparable to the European Technology Platform. Its main goal is to boost the national activities as envisioned by the Finnish Science and Technology Policy Council and supported financially by Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), Academy of Finland, and some other sources. The involved R&D parties include industrial companies, research institutions and support organizations. When established in 2008, the company had altogether 40 shareholders.
Focus areas
TIVIT's R&D activities have initially been organized into four SRAs alias focus areas, for which project portfolios and interest groups will be formed accordingly. The focus areas are as follows.
Flexible Services Ecosystem
The focus area provides solutions for an adaptive, trustworthy service environment for entities in the Digital Service Ecosystems, based on open service platforms, end-user and customer involvement, creation of cross-domain networks and personalized mobile webX.0 services. The director of the focus area is Dr. Ulla Kilström of Elisa.
Future Internet
Several problems plague the current Internet, causing both direct costs and indirect loss of business opportunities and social value. The focus area aims to enhance the Internet technology as a platform for innovation, while providing governance over the use of network resources and information in such a way that especially mobile use of the network and its services will be natively supported. The director of the focus area is Mr. Reijo Juvonen of Nokia Siemens Networks.
Cooperative Traffic ICT
Combination of intelligent vehicles and infrastructures for transport and communications is needed for more economic, environmentally sustainable and intelligent transport systems. Until now automotive and telecommunication industries have developed almost in isolation from each other. Now mobile, wireless and internet technologies enable possibilities to integrate these industries around a new paradigm - cooperative traffic. The focus area aims at helping to develop a novel cooperative traffic concept and its implementations that provide functions and services for driving and sustainable traffic. This cooperative transport and mobility concept will be developed, tested, validated and demonstrated in Finland. The director of the focus area is Mr. Hannu Hakala of Elektrobit.
Device and interoperability ecosystem
The focus area aims to define and open a new domain for technology and service innovation on a global scale. The communication and computing capacities of portable and embedded devices together with the ongoing developments in the areas of sensor networks, ad hoc networking, and location-based services, are examples of foreseen possibilities of local, networked and heterogeneous smart environments. The director of the focus area is Mr. Petri Liuha of Nokia.

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