The benefits and added value of FIMA:
Enterprises
FIMA gives companies an opportunity to direct the research of intelligent mobile work machines towards research entities and areas that are of strategic importance from a company’s perspective. Such research is often important to all or at least many companies in the field. However, it is frequently not possible for individual companies to forward research projects single-handedly. In association with FIMA, a company gains better added value from its research investment, the efficiency of research is enhanced and the best possible resources are deployed.
FIMA enhances the transfer of knowledge from research to companies. High-standard researchers are trained in connection with FIMA’s activity, who have a vision of the field’s future development and the expertise it requires. Some of these researchers remain in the service of universities and research institutes, but a large proportion will move to companies, injecting their expertise and connections to significant national and international cooperation networks.
Through FIMA, it is also possible to have an influence in forwarding the visibility and impact of the field.
Universities
The development and relaying of knowledge has become an increasingly important task for universities alongside education. Only by operating in this manner can a university fulfil its duty to society. FIMA expects research to be of a high international standard, which requires a correct focusing of research at universities as well as increasingly cooperative methods of operation.
FIMA creates a framework for carrying out long-range research of significance to companies, and thus offers universities an opportunity to develop into high-standard researchers and valued educators in the field. Such a university is also attractive from the perspective of international researchers and students.
Other institutes of research
Development is forwarded by companies that conduct active research and players that have cooperation with them. Through FIMA’s activity, research institutes with both the desire and ability to participate in this development gain a good opportunity to strengthen their research and direct it into strategically significant areas. In connection with FIMA cooperation, research institutes have an excellent opportunity to turn their research results, ideas and innovations into practicable applications.
Society
The direction of long-range research according to companies’ needs is important for society yet difficult to implement. FIMA implements activities that direct research investments related to mobile work machines in the best possible manner from the societal perspective. The utilization of public and private research funding is most successful when applying a method of operation where the research, development and commercialization processes are implemented as a uniform whole. The aims and responsibilities required for the use of public funding are fulfilled in FIMA’s activity.
