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government towards technological realization
and social application of the Society based on energy
and material efficiency –theme (Figure 6.9).
The most important measure according to the respondents
is supporting through taxation, subsidies,
and procurement (49 %). Other important
policy measures were considered to be human resources
development and educations (45 %), hu-
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Area 6: Energy production
Area 5: Food production
Area 4: Material efficiency
Area 3: Transport, logistics
Area 2: Industry, business, economy
Area 1: Housing, spatial planning
and infrastructures
Figure 6.8. Level of competence in Finland
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What are the most important measures that should be taken by the government toward technological
realization and social application (if any)? You should choose multiple policy measures.
Number of question respondents: 49 (avg: 5,6)
Human resources development and
education
Strengthened industry-academicgovernment
and interdisciplinary
collaboration
Technology transfer from other
countries
Development of R&D infrastructure
Expansion of R&D funding for public
research organization and companies
Internationalization of R&D activities
Ralaxation of elimination of relevant
regulations
Tightened or new regulations
Improvement of environment for
business startups
Support through taxation, subsidies,
and procurement
Other
Figure 6.9. Government policy measures
44,9%
40,8%
18,4%
36,7%
42,9%
26,5%
2%
42,9%
34,7%
49%
4,1%
man resources development and education (43
%) as well as expansion of R&D funding for public
research organization and companies (43 %).
Most important policy measures for this theme
were measures considered least important in
other themes. This represents the challenges of
advancing energy and material efficiency issues
and thus regulating policy measures are needed.
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