This is a part of a discussion that started in Qaiku yesterday. @hypocrisy @personaleu @oldpolitics @hyvaelama I see several important things in this thread. We've a cross-border discussion about politics and upcoming election issues in Sweden and Finland. I also agree that it's not the media but the message that counts.

Are Nordic countries particularly entrepreneurial? How do our societies perceive entrepreneurship as a career choice?

There’s been talk about the Innovationtrain 2.0 with destination to The World Expo in Shanghai. We had some talk about flying mission in Qaiku. It could take place after the summer. The intention would be to make an extensive export – import drive during the mission.

All successful projects build communities of supportive engaged activists who identify with the project and keep it productive and useful. The best seminars are about the other people you meet during lunch or the coffee breaks. Traditional congresses don’t give participants a great deal of freedom to participate and engage in the development.

The innovationtrain was the most important event of January 13, 2010. We’re now working with the next steps. iTraining is a concept that was tested during the Helsinki – Oulu – Helsinki one day journey. The next step will take place at the Flexible Services Seminar in Espoo 4.2.2010.

COP 15 was a disappointment to many and there is now certainly a risk that policymakers leave the building, metaphorically speaking, leaving markets to take over and solve the environmental problems the best they can. Can they and should they?
Cleantech Scandinavia recently attempted to analyze Nordic cleantech patent application levels. The European Patent Office and OECD’s environmental directorate did a similar attempt analyzing cleantech patent application levels worldwide.

The Finnish nature is 2010 more black and white than fifty years ago. The climate change powerpoints are not representing the reality outside your living room window. I was visiting my friends in Ruotsinpyhtaa and here 550 km’s south of Sotkamo the nature is just as beautiful and cold as most of us can remember from post-war childhood memories.

We ask you kindly to participate in a Finnish-language survey concerning the Social Media Use in the Innovation Process of Finnish Companies. The purpose of the study is to enable the improvement of the open innovation capabilities of Finnish organizations, as well as to increase and enhance customer and user driven innovation by means of Social Media. URL: https://www.webropol.com/P.aspx?id=394464&cid=101438247

Mobile physical services Social media expanding the customer experience Digitalized user experience Modernization of communication structures Broad service offering Integration to mobile devices Nokia Ovi and Maps could have a role Easy to use platforms We've to start from the users

Open Innovation and Open Data is receiving more attention in Finland. The innovation train was a great success and we’re seeing new emerging inventions. Some new ideas are boiling around the Nokia service. The Nokia Maps combined with the Ovi service provides numerous new possibilities.

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I just can’t help seeing a pattern here:
Organizations
The Old Way:
“No, we can’t order that device for you to work with as it is a model for the executives.”

Got Googled The End of the World as We Know It as a Christmas present from New York yesterday and think about #iTraining as a group product. It would be a spin-off from the January 13, 2009 #innovationtrain / #innovaatiojuna performance.

The traditional seminar means that one speaks out loud the bullet points in of a PowerPoint presentation. Ten to thousand people are silently listening or working with their computers. Those who are lucky users of social media can Twitter or Qaiku while “listening”.

The innovation train project has been evolving since the summer of 2009. For my part, it started in Sotkamo, continued in Loviisa and now again, I’m up in northeastern Finland and will travel from Sotkamo to Oulu tomorrow, take the night train to Tampere and join the team of the majority of people coming from the Helsinki region.

There is life after the innovation train to Oulu. We’re already talking about the next step. The Shanghai Expo 2010 is a possible destination. We need to talk about this goal during the trip to Oulu January 13, 2010. We’ve a few months to arrange the journey and to find sponsors and financing. Finland is one of the countries exposing products, designs and services.

  The Innovation train simulates the Open Declaration without knowing the theory. It’s a great example of a DIY (do it yourself) operation bringing out the best of people.

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