Evaluation of JTI's R&D Activities 2005–2008 - Formas

Owners equity and financing
Stakeholders
Base funding of approximately 10.6 MSEK is crucial for
JTI’s survival. This financing makes possible the continual
development of JTI’s expertise, which is a prerequisite for the
Institute’s continued activity. It is our “owners” in industry
(through SJMF) and the state (through Formas) who stand
for the base funding. It is therefore essential that JTI be wellregarded
as a valuable, internationally competitive, resource
of skills and expertise which can create value exceeding that
of the contribution.
Partner companies can roughly be divided into two groups:
agricultural and environmental. The agricultural sector represents
a mature market where there is limited potential
for partnerships with new large interests. However, new types
of companies are being developed in conjunction with
agriculture’s restructuring, and these represent potential new
partners.
The field of environmental technology is likely to offer greater
development opportunities. There is still a growing market
with young companies as potentially interested partners.
How large this potential is and in what form it may become
access i ble represents another large uncertainty factor and requires
further analysis.
The target for the period (2004–2008) is that the commissioned
work component (assignments) from SJMF will
amount to approximately 5 MSEK. During 2004 we will
be revising our work methods with respect to existing and
potential partners in order to establish more effective methods.
Starting in 2004, each JTI employee delivering a report to
an external client will complete an assessment about how
satisfied the client was judged to be and which problems or
other factors contributed to the client’s perspective. Another
alternative is to consider the possibility of using a simplified
“Customer Satisfaction Index”.
We have chosen to measure how much of the personnel’s time
is spent on projects with research grants, commissioned
assignments and within the framework program i.e. projects
funded internally. The aim is to reduce the time being booked
against the framework program and to increase the time spent
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Evaluation of JTI’s R&D Activities 2005–2008