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Regional Development Based on Digital Driven Symbiosis

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In the fast-moving business environment, the companies want to find location for themselves, where the environment is supporting their businesses, not only in the traditional ways but also by supporting innovation processes of the companies. Because of these new criterions, the countries and regions are forced to rethink new ways to make areas attractive for new companies to settle. In this article is analyzed the development activities on the industry/logistics area of the growth corridor in Finland. The purpose of analysis is to improve the attractiveness for new business as a part of developing digital symbiosis. “Industry 4.0” gives the European framework for building industrial ecosystem.

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  1. Häme University of Applied Sciences, Hämeenlinna, Finland

    Heikki Ruohomaa, Vesa Salminen & Anne-Mari Järvenpää

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  1. School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Jussi Ilari Kantola

  2. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  3. Hungarian-Netherlands School of Educational Management, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Tibor Barath

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Ruohomaa, H., Salminen, V., Järvenpää, AM. (2019). Regional Development Based on Digital Driven Symbiosis. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Barath, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Society. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94709-9_1

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