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Silicon Valley and Finland 71JOT Automation OyjUltraprintPicopakEimo OyjSuunto OyAspocomp OyElcoteq Network OyjBenefanFiltronic LK OySatel OyFlextronics International Finland OyAPLAC Solutions OyInstrumentointi OyjTellabs OyFinnet GroupUniversity of TampereVaisala OyjPolar Electro OyKone OyjABBFincitec OyVTTNokia Mobile PhonesNokia Research CenterNokia NetworksTampere University of TechnologyHelsinki University of TechnologySonera TelesteUniversity of HelsinkiTecnomenElisa CommunicationsNethawk OyVLSI Solution OyjElektrobit OyUniversity of OuluSSH Communications SecurityCCCDefence ForcesEfore OyNokia Multimedia TerminalsLappeenranta University of TechnologyIntellitel Communications OyAmiEduICLEricssonSource: Ali-Yrkkö and Hermans (2002)Figure 2.10An example of Nokia project networkingand Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, its core (more thanhalf) is still the interaction in the Finnish innovation network between Nokiaand universities like Helsinki University of Technology, Tampere Universityof Technology, the University of Oulu, VTT, and Nokia’s partner companies.Finally, the Finnish education system has not only produced highly skilledpeople to innovate and work in business, the state, and the education andresearch system itself, but it has also allowed individuals to be important technologyinnovators. There is an especially strong “hacker culture” in Finland,led by names like Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux operating system),Jarkko Oikarinen (the inventor of Internet chat), and Tatu Ylonen (the developerof encrypted Internet communication), who were all university studentswho played with new ideas and then networked with other like-minded individualsaround the world. As there is no immediate financial pressure onstudents, they can afford the time to experiment. It took Linus Torvalds eight