Intermediary Organisation in a Regional Development Network*

different positions from bookkeeping, human resource activities and sales to a managing director and in a global company’s customer service activities. Her academic career includes both research occupations and acting as a lecturer and as a professor. Mittilä’s research interests include wellbeing and public-private collaboration. Governments are working to create thriving innovative industries that provide more quality jobs, help implement sustainable business practices to protect the environment, build safe and caring communities, and nurture cohesive links between government and industry. In the recent years, more and more regional supportive infrastructure or knowledge generation subsystems have occurred. These systems consist of public and private organisations, etc. (Asheim & Coenen 2005). New service organisations are established to facilitate the networking among different actors in the region. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize intermediary organisations in the Finnish regional development context. Starting from the national regional development system two intermediary organisations from different regions are described and analysed. The contribution of the paper is the enhanced understanding about new types of actors in the changing structure of regional development and national welfare