Antti ESKOLA Commercial Counsellor, Innovation Department, Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Helsinki

since 1984	Various posts in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, including total of three years in Embassies of Finland in Seoul, Tokyo and Brasília and four years as a seconded national expert in the Delegation of the European Commmission in Japan.
	Main tasks: promotion of scientific and technological cooperation, exports and internationalisation, eBusiness.
since 2008	User and demand driven innovation, information society issues.

02: An international comparison of research, technology and innovation-policy (RTI) strategies