President and CEO Erkki KM Leppävuori, VTT: “Finland should create a national bioeconomy strategy as soon as possible!”

Finnish forests, water and minerals the new value products in high-level expertiseWe must react to the sudden structural changes taking place in the Finnish IT sector and in traditional forestry industry. For Finland to succeed new business and service ecosystems must be developed. Bioeconomy has the prerequisites for becoming a successful example of this for Finnish business life. This will, however, require a functioning collaboration network and our own bioeconomy strategy. On 12 April 2012, during the VTT Bioeconomy Forum Finland event in Helsinki, the President and CEO of VTT opened