The seven challenges we focus on to create sustainable growth
We commit ourselves to focus all our energy and expertise on those systemic and technological challenges where we can make the biggest possible impact. Currently, we focus on the following seven challenges:
Systemic challenges
- Carbon neutrality
To reach a carbon neutral economy in the coming decades - Productivity leap
To achieve a 10-fold productivity leap from resources - Societal resilience
To secure society’s functions, fiscal sustainability and wellbeing while demographics shift
Technological challenges
- Quantum leap
To bring about the quantum leap in computing - Super-performing materials
To create superior-performing materials and shorten design cycle by 50% - Superior digital systems
To unleash superior performance and sustainability in digital systems - Synthetic biology
To match nature’s engineering skills through synthetic biology and bioinspired production
In addition, we constantly explore emerging topics and continue to support the public sector.
The five choices we make every day to make our strategy alive
Our people, the 2000+ brilliant minds we employ, are the ones who make our strategy a reality. The choices we make every day lead us on our path of exponential hope:
- Always aim for impact.
- Always create impact together with a customer.
- Always lead for excellence.
- Always drive sustainable business.
- Always build the world’s most meaningful place to work.
These choices are underpinned by our values:
- Respect
- Together
- Passion
- Forerunner
Our strategy 2021 - 2025: The path of exponential hope
VTT Excellence Advisory Board
Excellence Advisory Board (EAB) advises VTT leadership in innovation processes, implementing long-term strategy, advancing VTT’s goals in its strategic focus areas and developing world-class research, technology and innovation competences.
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