Digipolku (Digital path)

The digital growth path for businesses in rural areas

Digipolku (Digital path) enhances the digital leap of rural businesses in Central Finland. The concrete aim of the project is to encourage and support businesses in Central Finland in developing new products, services, concepts or methods which contain digital elements. These reforms help existing businesses develop success factors for the future and also produce new enterprises.

The means of achieving the goals are very practical in the form of training, workshops, cooperation networks and examples. Training is organized on a municipality or smaller town level close to the enterprises to ensure effortless participation. At the same time, previously created data and materials related to the topics are collected and shared for small and medium-sized enterprises to utilize. The project started in the beginning of 2016 and will last until June 2018, altogether two and a half years.

Project team

Principal investigator Pekka Neittaanmäki

Project manager Tero Tuovinen

Project researcher Jukka Valkonen

Head of educational affairs Annemari Auvinen

Designer Kati Valpe

Research assistant Jaana Räisänen

Research assistant Jarno Kiesiläinen

Project website

https://www.jyu.fi/digipolku/ (in Finnish only)