The forest-based sector is responding to changes in its operating environment by updating its common research strategy. The sector’s revised research strategy will be published in spring 2010.

The forest-based sector of Finland published its national research strategy, which steers the industry’s R&D investments, in 2006. The forest-based sector’s operating environment has, however, evolved rapidly since then, and the research strategy will be updated to make it more responsive to the fresh challenges of our times. The revision will be completed in spring 2010.

“The updating of the research strategy will take advantage of the scenarios presented by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA in spring 2009; the change factors affecting the forest cluster will complement these scenarios. EVA’s global scenarios present four different and alternative depictions of future operating environments and analyses of the impacts these might have on Finland,” says Christine Hagström-Näsi, CEO of Forestcluster Ltd.