Project leader: Professor Tauno Tiusanen
Responsible professors: Professor Juha Väätänen, Professor Tuomo Kässi
Contact persons: Professor Juha Väätänen, Project Manager Anna-Mari Ylä-Kojola
Research partners:
Lappeenranta University of Technology:
- Northern Dimension Research Centre
- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Helsinki School of Economics:
- Center for Markets in Transition
The main objective of this research was to analyze on one hand the success factors of Russian companies established after 1991 and on the other hand the capabilities of Finnish companies to respond to the new challenges like increasing competition at the Russian market. The objective was to explore Russian companies from the Finnish companies' viewpoint both as potential competitors and business partners and also to create new business models to the Finnish companies for the Russian market. The research project focused on three sectors: food industry, ICT and logistics as well as on the development of collaboration between companies in South-East Finland and North-West Russia.
The research project concentrated on the following research topics:
1) Competitiveness of the new Russian companies - business models and structure of the competitiveness factors in three sectors under surveillance
2) Future operation models - threats and opportunities of the new successful Russian companies for Finnish companies
3) Collaboration possibilities for enterprises in South-East Finland and North-West Russia - co-operation and subcontracting.
The project was funded by TEKES (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation - www.tekes.fi) and it was included in the Russia in Flux -research program of the Academy of Finland (www.aka.fi), which comprised 30 research projects and around two hundred researchers in different field of science.
The completed reports of this research project are available at NORDI's publications site.