Kuopio Science Park is a

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located in Kuopio,

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. The name is not as such used in marketing purposes. Technology Centre Teknia Ltd. (Teknia), which is the central enterprise service organisation, is used as the marketing brand of the whole area - hence the lack of logo for Kuopio Science Park. Teknia has been the fastest growing Technology Park in Finland for the new millennium. Its tallest building, MicroTower, is high and one of the tallest structures in Kuopio. Teknia was acquired in spring 2008 by Technopolis plc for total cost of 18,1 million euros (67 million euros debts included).

Major organisations located at Kuopio Science Park

University of Eastern Finland The University of Eastern Finland ( fi, Itä-Suomen yliopisto) is a university in Finland founded in 2010 with campuses in Joensuu and Kuopio. History The Finnish Parliament passed the Universities Act on June 16, 2009, which, among other thing ...

, Kuopio campus (formerly University of Kuopio

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Savonia University of Applied Sciences Savonia University of Applied Sciences (Finnish: Savonia- ammattikorkeakoulu) is a local municipality-owned Finnish institution of higher education based in the cities of Kuopio, Iisalmi and Varkaus. Savonia offers bachelor's and master's degre ...

(Savonia), Administration & Admissions offices, IT & Electronics Engineering education unit

* Kuopio University Hospita

* Technology Centre Tekni

Offices of national organisations

* Neulanen Research Centre (public, occupational and environmental health): National Public Health Institute (KTL

The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH

and Finnish Food Safety Authority (EVIRA

* Own building: The Geological Survey of Finland (GTK

* In Teknia-buildings: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finlan

Technology Centre Teknia

* Manages the infrastructure of *teknia -dubbed office buildings * Offers startup- (business hatchery) and internationalization services for companies (also houses a wide variety of other producers of these services) * Has a side office in

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, China, which manages health care projects between Finland and China. * Houses joint-use laboratories, e.g. Sensor Development Lab, where UEF, Savonia &

Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...

jointly develop new microsensors. * Houses a total of 300 small businesses and local offices of multinational corporations and a few with a whole office building such as Honeywell and Ark Therapeutics. * World's first gene based pharmaceutical plant, by Ark Therapeutics was opened for business in 2007. * Mediteknia Research Centre, WellTekni

Cente

* A. I. Virtanen Institute and Bioteknia Research Centre (gene therapy, neurosciences, molecular medicine, pharmacology) * Microteknia Research Centre and Teknia Technology Centre (IT) The businesses based in Teknia specialize in information and communication technology and wellbeing technology (agrobiotechnology, drug design, and health care technology). ''Teknia's International Cooperation Partner Parks'':Kuopion Teknologiakeskus Teknia Oy - Tilaa Menestyä

Zhongguancun Zhongguancun () is a major technology hub in Haidian District, Beijing, China. Zhongguancun occupies a band between the northwestern Third Ring Road and the northwestern Fourth Ring Road, in the northwestern part of Beijing. Zhongguancun is ...

Software Park (

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, located in "the Chinese Silicon Valley"),

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Life Science & Technology Park, Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, IZET Innovationszentrum ltzehoe, TEKNIKBYN

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Technology Park, University of Surrey, University Enterprise Laboratories, Inc. (

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Construction stages

*Tietoteknia 1990 *Bioteknia 1 1994 *Bioteknia 2 1999 *Microteknia 1 2000 *Microteknia 2 2002 *MicroTower 2004 *Microteknia 3 2005 *Microteknia 4 2006 *Innoteknia 2007

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