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FinNano, Finland's national nanotech initiative is rapidly expanding on the international front as the company signed many cooperation agreements at nanotech 2008.

Some of the most prominent of those agreements include a partnership extension between NOF Corporation, a consortium of Finnish industrial companies, and the University of Oulu. The partnership is being partly funded by Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation.

"New composite materials developed by a joint program with TEKES and NOF Corporation could help to decrease signal loss in transmissions and enable high-speed telecommunication. This great progress will create a new field of telecommunications," Mr. Toyohisa Kobayashi of NOF Corporation was quoted as saying.

Through the partnership, the two firms will drive cutting-edge research, thus encouraging future breakthroughs in wireless telecommunications components for mobile devices. 

"Cooperation with Tekes has been very fruitful. The Finnish innovation environment and its funding instruments provide an excellent base for Japanese enterprises to partner with the Finnish technology sector, and to develop innovative applications of Japanese materials," said Mr. Yoshihiko Tsujimoto of Marubeni Chemix Corporation.

Tekes is the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. It is the main government financing and expert organization for applied research and corporate R&D in Finland.

Through its national innovation policy, Finland has been focusing on efforts to promote industrial applications for nanotechnology and functional materials.

"This co-operation will enable world-leading research and further breakthroughs in wireless telecommunications components for mobile devices," Professor Heli Jantunen from the University of Oulu was quoted as saying. "Our team is excited to see their research move to real products."

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page .

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