seatec - Finnish marine technology review 2/2017 | Page 10

“ The corporate world is playing along. The first pilots and applications to come rolling down the pipeline are likely to be autonomous cargo ships and freight. ECOSYSTEM EXCELLENCE DIMECC, a national co-creation platform, serves as the ecosystem manager and is responsible for achieving effective co-oper- ation and concrete objectives between the players. DIMECC’s recent Design for Value (D4V) project was a rather well-received undertaking with the stated goal of under- standing and exploiting the opportunities of digital disruption in maritime logistics “ Autonomous ships represent a fundamental change in shipping. value chains. Harri Kulmala, CEO of DIMECC, sees START UP THE ENGINES the ecosystem as a continuum to the sec- “Finland has world-class marine tech- tor’s long-term R&D&I facilitation, where nologies and ICT competencies. By com- And the corporate world is playing along: cross-industrial innovations are boosted bining these in a novel way, the objective Rolls-Royce announced in March 2017 that considerably. can be reached”, Kulmala believes. it will establish its Marine R&D Centre for 10 seatec 2/2017