Title:
Digiforest: Towards Future Digital Forest Applications by Means of a Seminar and an Innovation Workshop
Author(s):
Mynttinen, S., Partala, T.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
South Savo, Finland, is a leading region in wood production, but lacking behind in the development and utilization of digital technologies. The aim of this work was to rapidly generate new ideas for future digital applications in the forestry sector to serve regional development goals. A combination of a seminar and an innovation workshop was organized. The main target audience consisted of professionals from forestry and forest technology industries, as well as students and staff from a university of applied sciences. Four leading Finnish experts gave thematically coherent lectures to orientate the participants towards generating their own ideas and the main activity was an innovation workshop. The results of the half-day innovation session were 201 raw ideas for new digital forestry applications covering the full range of wood procurement and management processes and 15 further developed concepts. In line with the principles of open innovation, all the created ideas and concepts were made available to all the participants as well as others. We suggest that similar events focusing on innovating new digital solutions specifically to support processes in biomass production and utilization would be greatly useful for the industry.
Keywords:
forestry, innovative concepts, digitalization, innovation session, seminar, workshop
Topic:
Bioenergy Integration in Energy Systems
Subtopic:
Resource efficient bioeconomy
Event:
27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
5BV.3.31
Pages:
1859 - 1862
ISBN:
978-88-89407-19-6
Paper DOI:
10.5071/27thEUBCE2019-5BV.3.31
Price:
FREE
