

To go to the Sente Homepage (in English). In Sente, interactionīetween research and practice is a continuous learning process, and there has been an explicit aim to cross the many borders as barriers betweenīasic and applied research on one hand and between research and practice on the other hand.

Support and funding for the research group is gained through both academic research fundingĪnd through other outside contracts including the Academy of Finland and Technology Development Fund (Tekes). Sente has carried out numerous research projects on these themes in co-operation with other universities and with regions, cities and other firm networks and economic clusters - to analyse the interplay between the global and local dynamics of.strategic planning and management in the network society - to analyse the development networks and to develop.urban competitiveness and economic development policy in the information and network society - to recogniseĮlements of knowhow and innovation based development in the future.innovative urban and regional development - to develop and analyse the development concepts based on knowledge,.Current research addresses the following themes Of cities of Tampere and Pori) and its main objective is to strengthen the theoretical bases and create practical applications for promotion of strategic development The unit currently has ten full-time researchers and five part-time doctoral students (including business development directors Of the development processes from the perspective of competitiveness, policy-making and management and to intensify the networks between the Department and Sente was established in 1998 as a specialised research and teaching unit (doctoral studies) with a mission to increase the understanding of the dynamics The Ministry of Education has declared the Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy a unit with high Theĭepartment consists of 9 permanent teaching and research staff (five professors) and around 40 full-time researchers (most of them doctoral students). Sente belongs to the Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy at the University of Tampere.
