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Spinverse Senior Consultant Riikka Paasikivi has opened up the Horizon 2020 SME instrument in an article for the Finnish Kemia (Chemistry) magazine. The SME instrument is targeted at companies aiming for strong international growth and that bring to the markets new competitive products or solutions.
The New York Times article explains how the Nokia and Microsoft layoffs have created a surplus of unemployed tech workers in Finland and how there has been special effort in encouraging these workers to start their own companies. Specifically, the article mentions Quuppa, Creoir and Piceasoft, which are Spinverse Innovation Mill companies.
The IP4Plasma project, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, aims to enable industrial innovations based on unique IP assets in plasma technology. During the project two e-learning courses have been designed and developed. One course is on “Basic facts on the fourth state of matter and its technical use” and the other on “Atmospheric pressure plasma surface treatment processes – facts and aspects interesting for managers”.
The new real-time measurement system brings extensive savings. Groundwork was laid in CLEEN and FIBIC’s joint BEST bioenergy research program, managed by Spinverse.
Booxmedia Oy, with its' "End-to-End Cloud-TV Solution for Media Companies" and in Finland also well known for its DNA TV, is one of Spinverse's many successful Innovation Mill-projects. This Nokia spin-off has now been sold to British Amino Technologies.
Starting 14.4.2015, Spinverse Oy has undergone a name change to Spinverse Innovation Management Oy. The name change is a natural continuation of the company's growth, focusing on the internationalisation of Spinverse Innovation Management’s innovation services.
Sweden, Denmark and Finland were ranked as innovation leaders with respective ranks of first, second and fourth in the innovation scoreboard in the EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7) monitoring report.
Spinverse and EIRMA, the European Industrial Research Management Association, will launch the quest for Europe’s CTO of the Year 2015 on April 28th. The CTO of the Year Award is to highlight the role of the most prominent leaders of technology-based growth, promoting innovations to renew European industry and to upturn competitive advantage.
Jukka Lukkari wrote in the Tekniikka & Talous magazine on the 2nd of April 2015 that EU funding is slipping through Finland’s fingers. It is indeed true that the renewed and more innovation-oriented contents of the EU Horizon 2020 funding program, as well as its accelerated processing speeds, have increased the application activity both in Finland and elsewhere in Europe. This has, in turn, led to even tougher competition than before and to somewhat lowered success rates in the EU area.