Hunt for CTO of the Year gets underway
Nominations accepted until 15 December
Insights
Finnish CTOs: "Boldness in introducing new technology!"
CTO Forum, organized on the 19th of September by Spinverse and Technology Academy Finland, gathered Finnish technology leaders to network and exchange ideas on the role and significance of CTOs in companies. The call for nominations for CTO of the Year 2013 was launched simultaneously.
CTO Forum 2012 - Launch of the CTO of the Year 2013 Race
19.9.2012 Uunisaari
Will Beneq list to Moscow’s stock exchange? - Pekka Koponen's column in Kauppalehti
The miserable state of Finnish growth company funding continues. Even though there has been slight improvement in early stage funding, growth funding still needs to be retrieved from abroad. Stock exchange listings are missing. Could the Helsinki Stock Exchange just be shut down?
Finland’s first fuel cell backup power unit aimed for civilian use installed
T Control Oy has installed a fuel cell backup power unit at the TeliaSonera base station in the Vuosaari harbour area. There is no time lag in the use of the power unit...
Spinverse Drives Nano Commercialisation at EuroNanoForum 2013 in Dublin
After the successful EuroNanoForum 2011 in Budapest, Spinverse continues the conference series from 18.-20. June 2013 in the Convention Center Dublin.
Spinverse Expert Dr. Pirjo Pasanen - Graphene for Future electronics - the second most read article in Physica Scripta
The article discusses some aspects of how graphene could be used in mainstream electronic devices. The main focus is on signal processing applications in high-volume,...
FIMECC’s DEMAPP program result highlight: EXCELLENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ALUMINIUM CASTINGS
Electronic components are becoming more powerful and generate excess heat which must be conducted away through the cast aluminium casing. This challenge has been...
Industry commits to public-private innovation as the route to sustained economic growth
Brussels - Aarhus, 21st June 2012 - Representatives of industries employing over 19 million Europeans have today underlined the critical importance of industrial innovation as a route to European economic recovery, and stated their willingness to contribute and engage with governments and the research community to ensure that this is achieved.
'Growth companies for bioeconomy' - Pekka Koponen's column in Kauppalehti
Finland has started well with cleantech, and now the big companies are directing their R&D efforts from paper manufacturing towards bioeconomy. This new business sector would need growth companies to develop it further. Unlike the ICT sector that has received plenty of entrepreneurs and funding during the years past, the bioeconomy sector is dominated by global corporations and thus experience is needed to understand the name of the game. Also funding needs are different when bigger investments are needed already for the beginning. Public efforts should be continued and the services commercialized. In addition, new capital funding and venture capitalists are needed.