Our objectives
Innovation & Capabilities
Increase internationalization capabilities of digital services
Explore & Fail forward
Promote entrepreneurship, i.e., proactive, innovative and tactical risk management
Learn & Take actions
Stimulate and evaluate new business models including risk assessments.
What else DO WE AIM AT?
Identify Challenges for Digital Business Development
Studies to identify challenges for digital business development, IT strategies and information security management and action plans, from technology and business aspects.
Test, Experience and Learn about Information Security
Use cases and pilot demonstrations, including testing and evaluating dynamic environments for experimentation and learning about information security including business models.
Exploration of Emergent Technologies
Exploration of emergent technologies and its applicability for digital business models.
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Project Members
Who we are
The project is a cooperation between two academic partner Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu, Finland and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
- A cross-border collaboration that will support SMEs
- Physical and virtual lab environment
- Learn from each other and learn about shared challenges and problems
What our partners and researchers say
Our goal is to promote entrepreneurship, i.e. proactive, innovative and tactical risk taking by offering demonstrators and workshops that problematize established practices,
Better insights and sound IT behaviour can be gained through testing and evaluating new business models in a safe testing environment
Latest news
Cyber Security -info in Siikalatva
Lecturer Joni Jämsä visited Siikalatva muncipality and talked about the best data security practices in the companies and organizations. The audience was very passionate on the education and afterwards thanked Lecturer for his ability to communicate the difficult subject in a simple way.
Meeting in Haparanda
Cyber security group held the meeting in Haparanda 3rd and 4th of February 2020. The beautiful border city welcomed cyber security experts with a lovely frozen weather. It was -20°C! Our block chain expert presented the latest news and an application under development. The group worked also with the communication plan and business models for […]
ARCTIC PACER – Arctic public services innovation cluster
ARCTIC PACER – Arctic public services innovation cluster-project, clusters 5 international projects approved by Botnia Atlantica, Interreg Nord and Northern Periphery and Arctic Programmes to explore innovative solutions for participative, user-centred, quality and sustainable digital public services in Arctic regions. One of the project that was recognized and invited by the led-partner ERNACT to contritube […]
CyberNorth – Agenda and Speakers
Now we have confirmed all speakers and the agenda are set. Number of seats are limited and participants have started to sign up. CyberNorth Sign up here!
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT CYNIC? CURIOUS WHAT ELSE WE DO?
Activity Charts
About Cynic
CYNIC – Cyber security in Innovation and Business Communication
The project has identified that an uncertainty and a risk focus is an obstacle to SMEs willingness to invest in new business models which are tailored for digitalisation and digital services. Better insights and sound IT behaviour can be gained through testing and evaluating new business models in a safe testing environment. The project aims at (1) promoting entrepreneurship, i.e. proactive, innovative and tactical risk taking by offering demonstrators and workshops that problematize established practices, (2) increase SMEs capabilities to internationalization by providing a collaborative approach for different companies to quickly and effectively address common challenges and opportunities, as well as (3) stimulate and evaluate new business models by developing testable scenarios and exposing them to realistic risks and countermeasures, thereby contributing to increased entrepreneurship and stimulating the ongoing development of a new digital service industry in the region.
