Insights

Following the universal tendency, the European Union is striving to achieve ambitious energy and climate targets by 2020, including 10% requirement of renewable fuels in the transport sector. In many of those energy conservation measures and in terms of efficiency of energy use, Finland numbers among the leading countries in the world. Finland relies heavily on the energy efficiency as the source of most of the country’s cleantech business value.

Bioenergy – a renewable energy derived from biomass – is playing a vital role in many geographical areas. Currently, it is estimated to provide around 10% of the world’s primary energy supply.
In accordance with a global trend, Finland is acknowledged for its long and successful history in bioenergy, especially in forest biomass-based solutions. The high performance in turn has been enabled by innovative technology and engineering solutions as well as strong supporting research sector.

Spinverse is excited to present yet another customer success story: Oulu-based start-up Nukute has been selected for funding in the latest round of Horizon2020 SME Instrument, for Phase 1.

As Spinverse continues to experience rapid growth and increasing demand for its innovation consulting services, two new players reinforce the team.

Ilari Kallio, Vice President R&D from Wärtsilä and Antti Nivala, Founder and CTO from M-Files have been elected as the Finland's CTO of the Year 2016 awardees. The CTO of the Year title is awarded annually to a CTO who has had a positive impact on the growth and technology of the CTO’s company, acts as an inspiring leader, and has an active role in the society.

Spinverse advises Kaidi, one of China’s leading renewable energy producers, to plan a biofuel refinery investment project, an investment of one billion euros to Finland. The second generation biofuel refinery is planned to be built in Ajos, Kemi. The technology used in the biorefinery is globally unique and the planned facility will prove that high-quality biodiesel can be produced from woody biomass.

Are you struggling with your Horizon 2020 proposal? A good idea might be to look at the proposal writing process from the point of view of the evaluator, who eventually evaluates your proposal.

Spinverse has been chosen to coordinate the BEAM – Business with impact programme. The Spinverse coordination team is led by Juha Miettinen, an experienced international innovation policy and instrument professional with nearly 20 years of experience in innovation systems development and innovation support, technology transfer & business development.

The PeptiCaps project develops a novel nanotechnology for the delivery of specific active ingredients in skin care application.

According to the annual CTO-Survey, Finnish technology companies are preparing for digitalisation. It is believed that digitalisation will create new business models and ways to accelerate the development of current business. New business is needed, as the survey results reveal a concern for public funding cutbacks and poor predictability of Finnish and EU legislators.