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Making Finland a pioneer in sustainable economy business

Green Growth Programme coordinated by Spinverse arranges the most inspiring sustainable economy event of the year on Wednesday 6th of June, 2012 at Hernesaari, Helsinki. This main seminar of the Tekes Green Growth programme brings together entrepreneurs and top influencers of the green economy to create new Finnish sustainable economy business.

Finland is the second most interesting country for mining in the world - but how about the future?

The most influential figures in Finnish mining will be participating in the ‘Kaivosteollisuus '12’ event in April 2012. You are welcome to take part in the event and join these important discussions.

Spinverse and the Tekes Fuel Programme assisted Fuel Cell Today to compile a comprehensive report on Fuel Cell opportunities.

Industrial Technologies 2012 - Europe's market place for production technologies, materials and nanotechnology

Industrial Technologies 2012 takes place from 19.-21.6.2012 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Early Bird Rate only until 31.3.2012!

Green business offers a great opportunity to enhance global economic growth. Green growth leans on economically viable business models, which support the development of products and services with environmental benefits and reduce resource use and waste. Compared to traditional business models, these business models have a lower environmental impact. To these end, Green growth and eco-innovations have been given high priority on the agenda of governments and institutes such as OECD, UN and EC. In Finland, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy has recently started a strategic programme for environmental business.

Material Technology Invention Prize awarded to inventors of a new direct dissolving method of cellulose

Aalto University’s Material Technology Invention prize is awarded to researchers from Tampere University of Technology (TUT) for their invention “Economical direct dissolving method of cellulose”. The invention was created by researchers Marianna Vehviläinen, Taina Kamppuri and Maija Järventausta and Professor Pertti Nousiainen from the Department of Material Science at TUT. The prize was awarded on January 13 during the Technology Days event at Dipoli in Espoo, Finland. The prize is 20,000 euros.

Spinverse and ObservatoryNano release the Wireless Communications Report

Devices using wireless communication range from TV receivers to RFID tags, and mobile phones to satellites. Internet access from mobile phones and tablets is growing exponentially, which puts increasing demands on the performance of mobile devices and networks. Radio frequency (RF) electronic components use a lot of passive components, like capacitors and inductors, which cannot be miniaturized as fast as transistors and digital electronics circuits. It is foreseen that within the next 10‐15 years the current RF technologies will not be able to meet the ever increasing performance requirements of mobile handsets. Wireless sensors for health and sports monitoring have already become commonplace, and wireless connections are used extensively between household devices, in security systems and in monitoring and logistics systems in factories and warehouses. The development of smaller, cheaper, less power consuming and more efficient wireless sensor devices is expected to have considerable impact on these areas and enable new solutions for services, healthcare, environment monitoring, and logistics.