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Dr. Eero Silvennoinen is the director of Software and Telecommunications Technologies at Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. Tekes is the main government financing organisation for research and technological development in Finland. Dr. Silvennoinen is responsible for Tekes research financing and activities for software and telecommunications technology. He joined Tekes in 1988. Before that he worked for the Technical Research Center of Finland VTT, Nokia, Prodycon, Tampere University of Technology, and Tampella. He has a Doctor of Technology degree from Helsinki University of Technology. His specialities and interests include information and communications technologies and business, ICT applications in various industrial and service sectors, information, and knowledge society and innovation.
Work Experience
- Director, Software and Telecommunictions Technologies, Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, Helsinki, Finland 1999-present
- Executive Director, Finland Technology Center, Tekes, Boston, 1997-1999
- Research Manager, Information Technology, Tekes, Helsinki, 1996-1997
- Program Manager, Information Technology, Tekes, Helsinki, 1988-1994
- Research Scientist, Technical Research Center of Finland VTT, 1984-1988
- Software Engineer, Oy Nokia Ab, 1983-1984
Education
- Doctor of Technology, Department of Information Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, 1996
- Licentiate of Technology (Ph.D.), Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Information Technology, 1987
- MS, Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1981
Awards, Honors and Significant Achievements
- Involved in various roles in more than 20 Tekes programmes
- Member, EU National ICT Research Directors Forum, 2007-present
- Member, steering group for preparing the National Knowledge Society Strategy 2007-2015, 2006
- Decoration of the Order of White Rose of Knighthood of Finland, 2005
- Chairman, Education, Research, and R&D section of the Information Society Program of the Goverment of Finland, 2004-2007
- Member, steering group of Forum Virium Helsinki cluster program on digital content and services, 2004-present
- Member, leading group of the National Software Product Centre of Expertise, 2004-2007
- Member, Finnish Academies of Technologies, 2003-present
- Member, committee of Digital Media Institute of Tampere University of Technology, 2002- 2006
- Member, committee of VTT Automation (Technical research Centre of Finland), 1997
- Member, committee of Infotech (Oulu University), 1996-1997
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